THE BOSTON GLOBE

'''The Boston Globe''' (and '''Boston Sunday Globe''') is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and New England. Owned by The New York Times Company, the broadsheet ''Globe's local print rival is the tabloid ''Boston Herald''.^[2]

Contents

History

Magazine

Contributors

Regular Features

Pulitzer Prizes

Notable contributors

Present

Past

References

External links

History

''The Globe'' was founded in 1872 by six Boston businessmen, led by Eben Jordan, who jointly invested $150,000. The first issue was published March 4, 1872 and cost four cents. It was originally a morning daily when it began Sunday publication in 1877. In 1878, ''The Globe'' started an afternoon edition called ''The Boston Evening Globe'', which ceased publication in 1979.
''The Globe'' was a private company until 1973 when it went public under the name Affiliated Publications. It continued to be managed by the descendants of Charles H. Taylor.
In 1993, The New York Times Company purchased Affiliated Publications for US$1.1 million, making ''The Globe'' a wholly-owned subsidiary of ''The New York Times''' parent.^[3] The Jordan and Taylor families received substantial Times Company stock, but the last Taylor family members left management in 2000-2001.
In 1998, columnist Patricia Smith was forced to resign after it was discovered that she had fabricated people and quotations in several of her columns.^[4] This raised questions of a double standard at the Globe, as Mike Barnicle, who is white (Smith is African-American), had been accused of the same offense without being punished. In August of that year, Barnicle was discovered to have copied material for a column from a George Carlin book, ''Brain Droppings''. He was suspended for this offense, and his past columns were reviewed. In their review, the Globe editors found that Barnicle had fabricated a story about two cancer patients, and Barnicle was forced to resign.^[5]
''Globe'' reporters were an instrumental part of uncovering the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal in 2001-2003, especially in relation to Massachusetts churches. They were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for their work, one of several the paper has received for its outstanding investigative journalism.
In the spring of 2005, the Globe retracted a story describing the events of a seal hunt near Halifax, Nova Scotia that took place on April 12, 2005. Written by freelancer Barbara Stewart, a former New York Times staffer, the article described the specific number of boats involved in the hunt and graphically described the killing of seals and the protests that accompanied it. In reality, weather had delayed the hunt, which had not yet begun the day the story had been filed, so the details were fabricated.
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''The Globe'' is also credited with allowing Peter Gammons to start his ''Notes'' section on baseball, which has become a mainstay in all major newspapers nation wide. Gammons went on to become a member of the Baseball Writers Hall of Fame.
In 2007, Charlie Savage, whose reports on President Bush's use of signing statements made national news, won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
Today, ''The Globe'' now hosts 28 blogs covering a variety of topics including Boston sports, local politics and a blog made up of posts from the paper's opinion writers.^[8]

Magazine

Appearing in the Sunday paper almost every week is the ''Globe Magazine''. Doug Most is the current editor.
As of August 6, 2006, the magazine has seen a new look. This new look consists of the cutting out of the Inspirations section and moving it into the Boston UnCommon section. It also adds departments such as Q/A and Pierced.
On October 23, 2006, the Boston Globe announced the publication of ''Design New England: The Magazine of Splendid Homes and Gardens''. The glossy oversized magazine will publish six times per year.^[9]

Contributors

★ 'Robin Abrahams' writes Miss Conduct (see below)

★ Doug Most, Editor

★ Charlie Pierce is a staff writer

★ 'Neil Swidey' is a staff writer

★ 'Tina Sutton' writes The Clothes We Wear

Regular Features

'Editor's Notes': Notes written by Doug Most that are relative to one of the features in that week's magazine.
'Letters': Reader's correspondence
'Q/A': A mini interview with a local person
'The Big Deal': A profiling of a transaction that recently took place
'Pierced': A column by Charlie Pierce
'Tails From the City': Heartwarming stories from Boston and elsewhere
'The Clothes We Wear': Style column
'Miss Conduct': An advice column focusing mainly on good manners and properness.
'The Globe Puzzle': A crossword puzzle
'Coupling': Essay about social chemistry. Usually pertaining to someone's love-life.

Pulitzer Prizes

★ '2007' - National Reporting, Charlie Savage

★ '2005' - Explanatory Reporting, Gareth Cook

★ '2003' - Public Service, Boston Globe Spotlight Team

★ '2001' - Distinguished Criticism, Gail Caldwell

★ '1997' - Distinguished Commentary, Eileen McNamara

★ '1996' - Distinguished Criticism, Robert Campbell

★ '1995' - Distinguished Beat Reporting, David M Shribman

★ '1985' - Feature Photography, Stan Grossfeld

★ '1984' - Spot News Photography, Stan Grossfeld

★ '1984' - Local Reporting, ''The Boston Globe''

★ '1983' - National Reporting, the ''Boston Globe Magazine''

★ '1980' - Distinguished Commentary, Ellen Goodman

★ '1980' - Distinguished Criticism, William Henry III

★ '1980' - Special Local Reporting, The Boston Globe Spotlight Team

★ '1977' - Editorial Cartooning, Paul Szep

★ '1975' - Meritorious Public Service, ''The Boston Globe''

★ '1974' - Editorial Cartooning, Paul Szep

★ '1972' - Local Reporting, The Boston Globe Spotlight Team

★ '1966' - Meritorious Public Service

Notable contributors

Present

★ Ty Burr

★ James Carroll

★ Bud Collins

★ Gareth Cook

★ Alex Beam

★ Gordon Edes

★ Ellen Goodman

★ Stan Grossfeld

★ Bob Hohler

★ Derrick Z. Jackson

★ Jeff Jacoby

★ Michael Kranish

★ Jackie MacMullan

★ Eileen McNamara

★ Brian C. Mooney

★ Wesley Morris

★ Sean P. Murphy

★ Michael Rezendes

★ Bob Ryan

★ Dan Shaughnessy

★ Shira Springer

★ Joan Vennocci

★ Adrian Walker

★ Dan Wasserman

★ Cathy Young

Past

★ Mike Barnicle

★ Ron Borges

★ George Frazier

★ Peter Gammons

★ George V. Higgins

★ Michael Holley

★ Alan Lupo

★ Will McDonough

★ Jeremiah V. Murphy

★ Kirk Scharfenberg

★ Michael Smith

★ Patricia Smith

★ Paul Szep

★ Lesley Visser

★ Larry Whiteside

★ Hoover the talking seal had an obituary in this paper when he died.

References

1. 2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation
2. Herald's circulation declines Robert Gavin
3. Palmer, Thomas C., Jr. "Globe Sale Points to Newspapers' Strength". ''The Boston Globe'', page A1, June 12, 1993.
4. Secrets And Lies, , Sinéad, O'Brien, American Journalism Review, 1998
5. For Barnicle, One Controversy Too Many, , Sinéad, O'Brien, American Journalism Review, 1998
6. Boston Globe Admits Freelancer's Story Included Fabrications, , Howard, Kurtz, Washington Post,
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External links

★ Official website

★ Boston Globe history

★ Boston Globe blogs