The Boston Globe
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Template:Infobox Newspaper The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. With a daily circulation of 474,845 as of October 2005 [1], it is also the dominant media organization in Boston. The broadsheet Globe's local print rival is the tabloid Boston Herald (daily circulation 230,543) [2].
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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, who had been hired to run the paper in 1873.
In 1993, Affiliated Publications merged with The New York Times Company, publisher of The New York Times. The Globe is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of this company. The Jordan and Taylor families received substantial Times Company stock, but the last Taylor family members left management in 2000-2001.
Reputation
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.
Like the Times, the Globe is sometimes accused by conservatives of liberal bias. The paper's editorial stance is generally center-left, but it has regularly hosted a wide range of viewpoints, including several mainstream conservative commentators such as Jeff Jacoby and Cathy Young.
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.
Pulitzer Prizes
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
Recent controversies
Chuck Turner news conference photo
In May 2004, the Globe apologized for running a photograph from a news conference called by Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner and a local activist who claimed to have pictures of US soldiers raping Iraqi women. The Globe published a short article [3] about the press conference casting doubt on the authenticity of the pictures. With the story ran a photograph in which the explicit images on the poster beside Turner were visible. Moreover, it was soon established that the pictures were fakes. In its apology, the Globe said the pictures "were overly graphic and the purported abuse portrayed had not been authenticated."
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
The Boston Globe has declined to print the cartoons which are the subject of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.
Freelancer seal hunt story
In the spring of 2005, The Boston 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. [4][5]