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The Tweet Is Mightier Than the Sword! But Will Alice Hoffman's On-Line Rant Cut Into her Sales?

Casey Sherman | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media


Casey Sherman

The prolific author of more than 20 books fired off more than 20 angry tweets and Facebook updates following a mediocre review of her latest tome, The Story Sisters, in her hometown newspaper the Boston Globe.

NYT Execs Send Memo: We're Still Printing!

Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 07.26.2009 | Media


New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger and CEO Janet Robinson sent out a companywide memo Thursday morning pointing out that the paper is still pr...

Boston Globe Union, New York Times Reach Tentative Agreement

AP | MELISSA TRUJILLO | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media


BOSTON — A new contract agreement between The Boston Globe and its largest labor union could finally end months of contentious negotiations whil...

Boston Globe Reporter: I've Turned To Go-Karting As Fallback Career

Fortune | Jenn Abelson, Contributor | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media


I wake up in bed with welts on my spine, calluses on my hands, and deep brown bruises wrapped around my hips like some creepy guy's hands in a sketchy...

Boston Globe For Sale, But At What Price?

AP | MELISSA TRUJILLO | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media


BOSTON — Anyone looking to buy The Boston Globe would get one of the nation's most prestigious newspapers, with a popular Web site, 20 Pulitzer ...

Boston Globe: 3 Possible Buyers Of Newspaper Emerge

AP | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media


BOSTON — The Boston Globe reports that three area businessmen, including a member of the family that once owned the newspaper, have emerged as p...

Globe Writers Guild Punch Pinch

Charles Warner | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media


Charles Warner

People will act against their own best interests when they think they are being treated unfairly. They may go down, but they're going to take the greedy bastards down with them.

Kindling

Mark Sarvas | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media


Mark Sarvas

I need no convincing about the beauty and value of the book. But authors screaming about the Kindle - well that's just plain stupid. There's no other word for it.

Boston Globe Reportedly Up For Sale, New York Times Taking Bids: Report

AP | MELISSA TRUJILLO | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media


BOSTON — The New York Times Co. appears interested in getting rid of The Boston Globe, hiring investment bank Goldman Sachs to manage a potentia...

Boston Globe Plans Deeper Cuts After Union's "No" Vote

AP | MELISSA TRUJILLO | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media


BOSTON — The Boston Globe reporters and editors who narrowly rejected wage and benefit concessions face greater uncertainty as their union launc...

Rupert Murdoch: Obama "Dangerous," Boston Globe Will Survive, Chase Carey Not "Heir Apparent" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media


Rupert Murdoch told Fox Business Network's Neil Cavuto Monday morning that Barack Obama is not an extremist but that his policies "dangerous" for Amer...

Boston Globe Union Rejects Pay, Benefit Cuts

AP | KELSEY ABBRUZZESE | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media


BOSTON — Union members at The Boston Globe narrowly rejected steep cuts in their pay and benefits Monday, prompting the newspaper to immediately...

Boston Globe Union Attacks "Wretched" New York Times Management

AP | MELISSA TRUJILLO | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media


BOSTON — Days before a key contract vote, the president of The Boston Globe's largest labor union has accused management of requiring deep conce...

Boston Globe Facing 23% Pay Cut If Union Rejects Concessions

The Boston Globe | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media


Gaining $10 million in savings from The Boston Globe's largest union is "non-negotiable" and the company will take steps to immediately impose a 23 pe...

Boston Globe Newsroom Circulating Petition To Limit Pay Cuts

The Boston Globe | Posted 06.28.2009 | Media


A group of Boston Globe newsroom employees is circulating a petition that urges Globe management to limit pay cuts to 5 percent, arguing that a contra...

Two Major Boston Globe Unions Agree To Cuts

AP | Posted 06.27.2009 | Media


BOSTON — Unions that represent mailers and printers at The Boston Globe have agreed to concessions they hope will keep the 137-year-old newspape...

Thomas B. Edsall

New York Times Struggles On Two Continents

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 06.23.2009 | Media


The pain of cutting back at the New York Times has taken on an international dimension as the paper struggles to save money everywhere, including at t...

Vets Rally Behind McGovern's Bill for an Exit Strategy in Afghanistan

ZP Heller | Posted 06.14.2009 | World


ZP Heller

McGovern's Bill could give Congress the cajones to exercise some oversight, thereby keeping Obama from repeating the Bush administration's heinous mistakes in Iraq.

Amazon's Kindle DX: The End of Paper?

Dan Dubno | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media


Dan Dubno

Everyone who has predicted the demise of paper has so far been completely wrong. But that was before the advent of a fully-functional full-figured e-book reader.

Boston Globe Union Hosts Emotional Meeting Over Concessions: "Unconscionable," "Reprehensible"

AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media


BOSTON — Members of The Boston Globe's largest union met Thursday to debate a proposal for deep wage and benefit cuts that the newspaper's paren...

Will Newser End Without Newspapers?

Rob Fishman | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media


Rob Fishman

Michael Wolff depends entirely on working journalists to make his case that newspapers suck. Wolff can't source a blog without the Times, but we're supposed to renounce the paper?

Boston Globe Union Reaches 4AM Deal To Save Paper

AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media


BOSTON — While a tentative agreement between the owner of The Boston Globe and its largest employees union may keep the newspaper alive for now,...

Boston Globe Proposes 23 Percent Pay Cut To Newspaper Guild

Boston Globe | Posted 06.05.2009 | Media


Boston Globe management and the Boston Newspaper Guild resumed negotiations this evening so far apart that the company has proposed, with what it call...

Boston Globe To Resume Talks With Largest Union

AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 06.05.2009 | Media


BOSTON — Management of The Boston Globe has proposed that wages for the newspaper's largest union be slashed about 23 percent to gain concession...

Six Of Seven Boston Globe Unions, NYT Reach Agreement; Filing Called Off

AP | MELISSA TRUJILLO | Posted 06.03.2009 | Media


BOSTON — Negotiations between The Boston Globe and its largest union reached an impasse Monday, largely over lifetime job guarantees that the 13...