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Times Threatens to Shutter the Boston Globe
Talking Points Memo —
From the Globe ...
The New York Times Co. has threatened to shut the Boston Globe unless the newspaper's unions swiftly agree to $20 million in concessions, union leaders said.
Executives from the Times Co. and Globe made the demands Thursday morning in an approximately 90- minute meeting with leaders of the newspaper's 13 unions, union officials said. The possible concessions include pay cuts, the end of pension contributions by the company and the elimination of lifetime job guarantees now enjoyed by some veteran employees, said Daniel Totten, ...
Saving Your Local Newspaper
Eschaton —
I do wonder where the problem is. The New York Times Co. has threatened to shut the Boston Globe unless the newspaper's unions swiftly agree to $20 million in concessions, union leaders said. ...
Boston Globe
Sister Toldjah —
Times co. threatens to shut down Globe
Thick with Irony
Behind Blue Lines —
We all know that the near-bankrupt New York Times is a staunch defender of the unions and the working guy in general. Then again, maybe they’re not. Particularly when it comes to their own unions. From the Boston Globe : The New York Times Co. has threatened to shut the Boston Globe unless the newspaper’s unions swiftly agree to $20 million in concessions, union leaders said. Executives from the Times Co. and Globe made the demands Thursday morning in an approximately 90- minute meeting with leaders of the newspaper’s 13 unions, union officials said. The possible concessions ...
Death March
Doug Ross @ Journal —
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, Bill Keller . It tolls for thee. [image] The decrepit New York Times Company is threatening to "shut down" The Boston Globe unless the newspaper's unions immediately agree to $20 million in additional concessions. John Hinderaker points out the obvious hypocrisy . The Times endorses Big Labor's legislative agenda pretty much down the line, but when it comes to its own business operations, it can't help noticing that antiquated union contracts threaten its very existence. We've advocated bankruptcy for GM and ...
NYT threatens to shut down Boston Globe
PoliGazette —
The troubled New York Times Co. threatened to shut down the Boston Globe yesterday:
The New York Times Co. has threatened to shut the Boston Globe unless the newspaper’s unions swiftly agree to $20 million in concessions, union leaders said.
Executives from the Times Co. and Globe made the demands Thursday morning in an approximately 90- minute meeting with leaders of the newspaper’s 13 unions, union officials said. The possible concessions include pay cuts, the end of pension contributions by the ...
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April 4, 2009 In Other Headlines: Clyde Holds Bonnie Hostage "Times co. threatens to shut down Globe" Posted by Kate at April 4, 2009 11:19 AM Comments Damn I was hoping it was the Globe and Mail Posted by: ...
NY Times Co. threatens to close Globe
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... Will the Boston Globe be the latest newspaper casualty? The New York Times Co. threatened to shut down the Globe unless the union agrees to $20 million worth of concessions, according to the Globe. ...
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NY Times Co. threatens to shut down Boston Globe unless there are Union Concessions
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NY Times Co. threatens to shut down Boston Globe unless there are Union Concessions
The New York Times Co. has threatened to shut the Boston Globe unless the newspaper's unions swiftly agree to $20 million in ...
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The Sideshow —
... gambling, unregulated accounting sleights of hand." What Rich doesn't say is that even newspapers' failing fortunes are owing more to bad business decisions (including stupid investments) than to any change in consumer behavior. But he does ask one right question: Why behead GM when the people who really created this mess, at AIG and on Wall Street, have to be protected at all costs? And he flags this song. But he doesn't ask why the union workers in Detroit (or or anywhere else) should be paying for so many other people's sins. Like Barb, I have pretty ...
Ex-Times editors talk of 'reinvention'
Michael Calderone's Blog —
With the New York Times announcing possible salary cuts and layoffs -- not to mention the Boston situation -- two former executive editors talked to Editor & Publisher about what to do next.
Max Frankel, the top editor from 1986-94, said that the "choices are terrible" right now, while Howell Raines -- who left as a result of the Jayson Blair scandal in 2003 -- acknowledged that high-quality journalism "gets squeezed" during in bad financial times.
But both men agreed that past reinventions of the paper in difficult times ...
Bonuses To New York Times Execs Under Fire
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... On April 3, the Boston Globe reported that NYT officials had informed leaders of the unions representing workers at the Globe that unless they agreed to $20 million in savings through pay cuts, layoffs, and reduced pension fund contributions, the Times would shut the Boston paper down. ...
Mass. lawmakers seek to save Boston Globe
News —
... In another sign of the media's industry's dreary times, almost all of Massachusetts' congressional delegation penned a letter to the chairman of the New York Times seeking mercy for the Boston Globe. The New York Times Company owns the Globe and has threatened to close the daily if it doesn't get $20 million in union concessions . In a letter dated April 24, the Bay State delegation urged Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., the chairman of the Times Company, to avoid shutting down the paper. "We understand the serious financial challenges facing the newspaper industry today," they wrote. ...
Government Globe on the Way? -- By: Mark Krikorian
The Corner on National Review Online —
... an editorial. "He was willing to run the risk of reviving an independent journalistic voice because he knows that at the end of the day, the Banner is good for Boston." Forgive me for being skeptical about how the paper will cover its patron.
Having established this precedent, what principle would prevent Mayor Menino from arranging a loan for a buyer of the Boston Globe, now that the New York Times Co. is trying to unload it, after threatening to shut it down altogether? In a story on the loan to the Banner, Mayor Menino ...
