New 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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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...
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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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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...
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...
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 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 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...
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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...
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