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 Times Co. Takes 
 Globe Off Market 

Boston paper's finances have 'significantly improved'

Oct 14, 09 6:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - The New York Times Company has decided not to sell the Boston Globe after all, its chairman told workers in a late-afternoon email today, saying that the financial picture has “significantly improved” for the 137-year-old newspaper in recent months after various cost-cutting and revenue-boosting moves. Two groups did bid... More »

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(Newser) - The Boston Globe's biggest union has ended a four-month battle with the New York Times company and voted to accept $10 million in pay and benefit cuts, the Boston Herald reports. Union members—who have been living with a 23% pay cut since rejecting an 8.3% decrease last month—... More »

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 What's the Globe Really Worth? 

Some say Times Co. should pay to dump it

Jun 15, 09 11:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the New York Times Co. said to be looking for a Boston Globe buyer, David Carr polled experts to see what the paper might be worth—a question, he writes in the Times, that reaches beyond the Globe itself as the newspaper industry struggles. Carr got quite a range... More »

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 Boston Real-Estate 
 Firm May Buy Globe 

Paper's top union wants stake in broadsheet

Jun 11, 09 12:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Boston real-estate and investment firm is considering buying the Globe from the New York Times Company, and the paper’s biggest union wants a piece, too, the Herald reports. Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. says it’s been in talks for weeks to purchase the beleaguered newspaper. More »

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(Newser) - The New York Times Company has hired Goldman Sachs to handle a possible sale of the Boston Globe, the Globe reports. Goldman, which has also been trying to help the Times Co. unload its 17.5% stake in the Red Sox, has been telling prospective buyers it would... More »

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 Globe Union Rejects Pay Cut 

Struggling newspaper's staff vote against deal to slice pay, benefits despite warnings

Jun 8, 09 11:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Boston Globe's biggest union has turned down a contract involving pay and benefit cuts despite threats that doing so may lead to deeper cuts, the New York Times reports. Boston Newspaper Guild members voted 277-265 against the offer from the New York Times Company after 12 hours of voting,... More »

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 Globe Union to Vote on Pay Cut 

Rejection could spark legal battle

Jun 8, 09 11:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Boston Globe’s biggest union votes today on whether to accept a $10 million cut to their wages and benefits, including an 8.4% pay cut, or to mount a legal fight with parent the New York Times Co., the Boston Herald reports. If the contract is rejected, the... More »

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 Globe Strikes Deal 
 With Last Holdout Union 

Paper likely to remain in business as employees take major cuts

May 6, 09 6:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Boston Globe and its largest union struck a tentative deal early this morning that will likely keep the newspaper's owner, the New York Times Company, from shutting down the title. The union representing more than 600 employees in the editorial and advertising divisions was the last holdout in negotiations... More »

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(Newser) - The leaders of the Boston Globe’s biggest union have given themselves substantial raises over the past 3 years, even as the people they represent went without, the Herald reports. Boston Newspaper Guild president Dan Totten—who recently lambasted New York Times Co. execs for giving themselves extra days off... More »

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 As NY Plays Hardball, 
 Globe Swings in Wind 

Tensions high as last union works toward deal with Times Co.

May 5, 09 7:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tensions are high as the last of seven Boston Globe unions tries to hammer out a deal with the New York Times Company, the Washington Post reports. The Boston Newspaper Guild has blasted the Times Co’s “bullying tactics” in negotiations set to resume as soon as today, but... More »

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 6 Globe Unions 
 Cut Deal; Largest Remains 

Two more still need to settle differences or Boston paper will shutter

May 4, 09 9:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Under threat of closure from the New York Times Co., six of the Boston Globe's seven unions have hammered out tentative deals with management, agreeing to millions in concessions, reports the Globe. But the newspaper's largest union, the Boston Newspaper Guild, is taking a break from negotiations following what the... More »

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(Newser) - The New York Times will file a required 60-day notice with federal authorities that it plans to shut the storied Boston Globe, newspaper officials said last night. Tense negotiations with unions failed to produce millions of dollars in savings Times representatives say are necessary to continue Globe operations. The Newspaper... More »

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Times Co. Gives Globe 
Weekend to OK $20M Cuts

But accounting error further infuriates staffers

May 2, 09 3:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Boston Globe will live to print another edition, now that the New York Times Company has extended its deadline to midnight tomorrow, the Globe reports. Marathon negotiations continued after last night’s deadline, when the Times Co. granted the eleventh-hour reprieve for the paper’s unions to approve $20... More »

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As Staffers Take Pay Cuts, NYT Execs Get Bonuses

CEO's pay went up $1.5M last year

Apr 22, 09 3:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - New York Times Co. executives have taken big bonuses as their newsrooms endure layoffs and pay cuts, a proxy statement filed with the SEC reveals. At the eye of the storm is CEO Janet Robinson, whose compensation in 2008 was more than $1 million greater than her 2007 salary and... More »

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(Newser) - Advertising revenue for the New York Times Company’s news divisions sank 28% in the first quarter of this year, the Wall Street Journal reports. That, and a total revenue falloff of 19%, resulted in a $74.5 million loss for the publisher, compared to a break-even first quarter last... More »

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Red Sox Owner Offers to Buy Boston Globe

Tycoon wants NYT Co.'s 17.75% share of team

Apr 17, 09 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The New York Times Company might be able kill two birds with one pitch. Red Sox principle owner John Henry recently told the company that he’d be willing to buy the Times’ 17.75% stake in the team, and that, if he did, the Times Co. could throw in... More »

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ANALYSIS

'Jewel' Soon Was Tarnished for NY Times Co.: Globe

Globe staffers analyze parent company's treatment of once great paper

Apr 12, 09 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Boston Globe is delving into the stunning fall of a once-great institution: itself. Keith O'Brien and Robert Weisman trace the decline back to 1993—when the New York Times Co. bought the "jewel of an asset" for a staggering $1.1 billion—to the unimaginable present, as the... More »

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Globe's Rank-and-File Will
Take Pay Cuts—if Execs Do

Management, unions sit down

Apr 5, 09 3:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Unionized Boston Globe employees say they’re willing to make sacrifices to save their foundering newspaper—but only if executives and managers do the same, the Globe reports. “If management is willing to lead us, to take pay cuts and concessions, I'm sure the union would be willing,”... More »

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 NYT Threatens to 
 Shut Boston Globe  

Unions given ultimatum over cutbacks

Apr 4, 09 3:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - The New York Times has told the Boston Globe it will shutter the newspaper if unions don't swiftly agree to $20 million in concessions, the Boston Herald reports. The parent company told union leaders Thursday that the Globe is on course to lose $85 million this year unless serious cutbacks... More »

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 NYT Ready to Sell BoSox Stake 

As newspapers tank, company offloads non-core assets

Dec 24, 08 5:25 PM CST
(Newser) - With revenues plummeting and advertisers and readers fleeing, the cash-starved New York Times Co is looking to offload a once-sacrosanct asset—its 17.5% stake in the Boston Red Sox and Fenway Park, the Wall Street Journal reports. Revenues at the Times Co arm that includes the Grey Lady and... More »

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