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Philadelphia Story

What Steve Taylor needs to know if he succeeds in buying the Globe
The local-media story line of the moment is the push by Stephen Taylor — Milton resident, Yale media lecturer, and former Boston Globe executive VP — to recapture the paper his family ran for more than a century, a goal he's pursuing with the backing of (among others) his cousin Benjamin Taylor, the former Globe publisher.
By ADAM REILLY  |  October 01, 2009
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Menino's junked mail

The Globe ratchets up the intensity in Boston's mayoral race. Plus, the Times Co. gets some love from the Globe newsroom and BU books blowhard Bill O'Reilly.
Two years ago, when I wrote a column griping about the Boston media's apathy-inducing disinterest in city politics, Boston Globe metro editor Brian McGrory told me his paper had given the lackluster 2007 elections as much coverage as they deserved, but hinted that things would be different in 2009.
By ADAM REILLY  |  September 16, 2009

Newport Web site tests an old-school daily

Online
The Newport Daily News made headlines this summer when it began charging for access to its online edition in a bid to send readers scurrying back to the more profitable paper product.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  September 16, 2009

Short-sighted?

The Projo 's ultra-local approach could save the paper — or spell its demise
There may, in the end, be no way to save the American metropolitan newspaper. Plummeting advertising revenue and competition from the Internet often seem forces too daunting for even the savviest of publishers.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  August 26, 2009

Talking points

Press Releases
Rich Connor's reforms have brought a much-needed sharpened focus to the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram and its sister papers. Certain changes, though, are raising eyebrows not just for what they are, but because of how Connor is doing them.
By JEFF INGLIS  |  August 26, 2009
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Our journalism echoes our politics

If the press reflects the times, which way will it go now?
Why won’t the Maine press inquire deeply into major issues?
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  August 03, 2009
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The Times Co.'s super-potent silent treatment

If a tree falls in the Forest Dept.
In an earnings conference call last week, Janet Robinson, the president and CEO of the New York Times Co., had choice words — make that one  choice word — for published reports on the Times Co.'s attempts to unload the Boston Globe.
By ADAM REILLY  |  July 29, 2009

Freelance in Maine

Four decades of advocacy journalism
" Stop the press!" The press stopped.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  August 03, 2009

Press Releases: Memo to Rich Connor

Press Releases
Memo to Rich Connor
By JEFF INGLIS  |  July 29, 2009

Reconfiguring the Other Paper

The 'New' Urinal. Plus, Richard Walton on Frank Mccourt  
Last Friday P&J noticed an article on the Providence Business News Web site concerning a major design change being planned by the Urinal. According to the source for the story, veteran BeloJo scribe and Providence Newspaper Guild president John G. Hill, the paper "is scheduled to announce a redesign of the newspaper in its print edition this Sunday."
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  July 22, 2009
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The Journal gets a facelift

As the ProJo Turns
Metropolitan newspapers have been moving toward über-local coverage for some time now.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  July 22, 2009
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Local news blues

With layoffs, plummeting revenue, and dwindling viewership, TV news departments are getting desperate.
There has been plenty of hand-wringing, in these parts, over the decline of the local broadsheet. The Providence Journal is the paper of record, after all, the agenda setter. And the agenda is decidedly thinner these days.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  June 24, 2009
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Weakened watchdogs

If the Globe shrinks, will Beacon Hill run amok?
The ongoing crisis at the Boston Globe shouldn't be troubling just to devotees of the sports pages and "Coupling." Citizens who prize strong coverage of the Massachusetts State House ought to be fretting over the paper's fate, too. With its four-person State House contingent, the Globe has a stronger presence under the Golden Dome than any other major Boston media outlet.  
By ADAM REILLY  |  June 19, 2009
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White-supremacist code printed nationwide

One man's death spread the numeric code for "Heil Hitler" across the world.
While von Brunn survived to face federal criminal charges and may yet die slowly in federal prison, he did manage to get newspapers around the globe to print a white-supremacist code praising Adolf Hitler right next to his name.
By JEFF INGLIS  |  June 17, 2009

Death knell

B ittersweet week at the Portland Press Herald
Last week was a bittersweet week for the people who work at the Portland Press Herald and its sister publications. It is hard to fault them for the steps they took to try to preserve some semblance of the present, but we cannot avoid the fact that they have sounded the death knell both for the newspapers that employ them and the unions that represent them.
By JEFF INGLIS  |  June 03, 2009

No free ride at Daily News' Web site

Media
The Internet may, in the end, crush the American newspaper.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  May 27, 2009
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Death watch

Michael Connelly's newspaper elegy
Michael Connelly's newspaper elegy
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  May 19, 2009
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Die another day

The clock starts now on a potential Globe sale
Now that the New York Times Company and representatives of the Boston Newspaper Guild, the Boston Globe 's biggest union, have agreed to a deal that will keep the paper alive (more on that in a bit), the great unanswered question becomes: what, exactly, does the Times Co. plan to do now ?
By ADAM REILLY  |  May 07, 2009
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Bottled news

Why pay for something you can get at home for free?
Once mighty daily newspapers are dying like dogs
By MATT BORS  |  May 06, 2009

Keeping 'the Hope' alive on Fountain Street

As the ProJo turns
The decline of the American newspaper is a story often told in bold print.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  May 06, 2009
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Will the Globe survive?

Sizing up the paper's future as it approaches the deadline from hell
What would Boston's media landscape look like without the Boston  Globe ?
By ADAM REILLY  |  April 30, 2009

Include everyone

Letters to the Portland editor, April 17, 2009
"Voting Frights" (by Shay Stewart-Bouley, April 3) is xenophobia dressed up to look nice. The assertion that people who are not full citizens are disproportionally less likely to have "learned what is going on" is without factual basis.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS  |  April 16, 2009
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Man bites newspaper

The genesis of the newspaper problems can be traced to Richard Nixon.
It's not news that newspapers are in huge trouble — victims of technological change and a mini-depression. What is news is the unadorned glee that is greeting the demise of newsprint.
By STEVEN STARK  |  April 19, 2009
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Solutions for the newspaper industry

Big Fat Whale
Keep eliminating comics!
By BRIAN MCFADDEN  |  April 16, 2009

Sitting pretty

The guy with the cash can play a waiting game if he wants
Richard Connor has cleverly cornered the market on the Portland Press Herald and its sister papers, and is now in what can only be called the catbird seat.
By JEFF INGLIS  |  April 02, 2009

A few tips

Giving the Press Herald a fighting chance
There are, in fact, some pretty basic things that would help ensure the paper might have a chance.
By JEFF INGLIS  |  April 02, 2009
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Fold or float

How to save the Portland Press Herald
It doesn't matter who the new owner of the Portland Press Herald is, or whether there even is one. The state's largest-circulation daily newspaper simply cannot survive in its current form.
By JEFF INGLIS  |  April 02, 2009
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Dance, Monkey!: Joe Madaus

Loves to go whaling
Every week we put a comic in the hotseat this week's victim.......
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  March 26, 2009
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First cut

Buyouts shrink the Globe newsroom — but not enough
To state the obvious, this isn't a great time to be out of a job.
By ADAM REILLY  |  March 25, 2009

A Fighting Spirit

Laughing to keep from crying at the Projo's follies
The funniest Providence Newspaper Guild's annual Follies of all time.
By PHILLIPE + JORGE  |  March 04, 2009

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