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Building a bigger congregation: Why The Boston Globe is launching a site...
Looking at the newly launched Catholic news site Crux, you’ll find plenty of stories on the travels and exploits of Pope Francis. This makes sense — he’s the head of the church and easily one of the...
View ArticleThis Week in Review: Flipboard scoops up Zite, and Getty sets its photos free...
Flipboard buys its rival from CNN: Flipboard, the most prominent of the many social reading apps, bought one of its rivals, Zite, from CNN this week. CNNMoney’s Laurie Segall pegged the deal at a value...
View ArticleEmbrace the unbundling: The Boston Globe is betting it’ll be stronger split...
The model for the 20th-century American newspaper was to be all things to all people, in one amalgamated package. One daily bundle of newsprint could give you baseball box scores, reports of intrigue...
View ArticleThe Boston Globe offers newspaper delivery in Florida
One of the benefits of your newspaper’s publisher also being the owner of a baseball team? He sees spring training as a circulation opportunity. The Boston Globe announced today it will begin...
View ArticleBostonGlobe.com is moving to a metered paywall
That’s one of the takeaways from this long profile of the John Henry-era Globe by Jason Schwartz in Boston Magazine. The Globe famously split its web presence in 2011 into a completely free Boston.com...
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The Hub of the Twitterverse: The Boston Globe has built a localized,...
In the Boston area, the passing of a Dunkin Donuts franchise is news. So are the finer points of Tom Brady’s hair. But in this instance, we know the closing of the Mass Ave. Dunkin reached a certain...
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Respond to this: The Boston Globe wants to offer iPhone users a native app...
In the debate over native apps versus mobile websites, The Boston Globe is officially hedging its bets. And in the how-much-to-charge paywall debate, it’s going surprisingly low. Today the newspaper is...
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Double coverage: How The Boston Globe used its dual sites to cover the...
April 15 was always going to be a big day for The Boston Globe. Marathon Day is traditionally one of the busiest for the newspaper, with its staff deployed around the city following the race, running...
View ArticleNew editor Brian McGrory: We think we could be at 50,000 BostonGlobe.com...
New Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory spoke at MIT last week, but some video excerpts have now been posted of his talk, along with the Center for Civic Media’s usual excellent liveblog of the event. A...
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Split in two: How The Boston Globe, up for sale, is navigating its free/paid...
Sitting in his office last week, Brian McGrory, the new editor of The Boston Globe, described the relationship between the two websites — similarly named, often confused, one free, one paid — that his...
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The Boston Globe tightens up as executives seek ‘the optimal balance’ between...
The flexible paywall that The Boston Globe introduced for its subscription website about a year and a half ago has slowly gotten a little less flexible. Fewer Globe stories are available on the...
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Can The Boston Globe and MIT hack the future of news together?
The Boston Globe is looking to borrow some of MIT’s toys to change the way it reaches readers and reports on the community. Thanks to $250,000 in funding from the Knight Foundation, the two...
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Where rock lives: Boston.com gets into streaming radio
Boston.com sees a future in radio. On Monday Boston.com announced plans to launch an alternative music station that would livestream from the Boston Globe’s headquarters. The kicker? They’re bringing...
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Would you buy a .boston domain from The Boston Globe?
The Boston Globe wants to open up a new line of business: selling domain names. The Globe is among a number of organizations that are vying for a new series of web suffixes like .yoga, .android,...
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They’ll do it live: Inside Boston Sports Live, The Boston Globe’s new noon...
“Where’s Gasper? We might need him.” There’s an empty chair where Christopher Gasper should be. It’s at a news desk set against a green screen in the studio where Boston Sports Live will go on the air...
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Yesterday The Boston Globe ended all your tomorrows
The Boston Globe has killed yesterday, today, and tomorrow. In an announcement on BostonGlobe.com’s Insiders blog, Charles Mansbach, the Globe’s Page 1 editor, says the paper is doing away with the...
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Emerson College student paper completes a fully responsive, mobile-friendly...
The Berkeley Beacon, Emerson College’s 65-year-old independent student newspaper, mirrors a lot of professional newspapers: Its funding is in jeopardy; editors are (happily) overworked; the editorial...
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Why Boston.com got into the sports tickets business
When BostonGlobe.com was split off from Boston.com last fall, the most obvious new revenue source was the newspaper site’s new paywall. BostonGlobe.com, the new, handsome, straight-laced sibling, got...
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Boston.com adds tweets to news feed for Your Town sites
The Boston Globe is quietly testing a redesign of its Your Town product on Boston.com to give the locally focused sites a more engaged, real-time feel. And “real-time feel” is short for a blog-like,...
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Responsive design from another angle: Gizmodo goes widescreen
Gizmodo, the popular gadget site and pageview king of Gawker Media, debuted a new look last night that they’re calling HD view, and it’s big. Not big in the grand scheme of things — big in the number...
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