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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged The Boston Globe

1. October 12, 2011 03:09 PM

   Q & A with Boston Globe Editor, Marty Baron

   On serving online "snackers" and "deep readers," and Whitey Bulger coverage

   By Alysia Santo

   The Boston Globe is set to implement its new subscription model, which will cost $3.99 a week for a digital-only subscription, and all print subscribers will get full digital access. The editor of the Globe, Marty Baron, made a visit to Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism this week to discuss with students the changing newspaper industry, but first he sat...

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2. August 9, 2012 06:50 AM

   The New York Times prepares to leave the content farm

   The sale of About.com would leave a pure-play newspaper company

   By Ryan Chittum

   The New York Times Company looks set to exit the content-farm business, with AllThingsD's Peter Kafka reporting that the company has signed a letter of intent to sell About.com for $270 million. It was never clear how a low-quality content farm like About.com fit into a stable dominated by the august New York Times. The site's home page yesterday had...

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3. April 20, 2012 05:14 PM

   The NYT Goes Backward on Digital Ads

   By Ryan Chittum

   The New York Times Company's first quarter earnings, reported yesterday, left a lot to be desired. About.com, the company's web-only content farm, continues to crater, weighing down the newspapers. It lost nearly a a quarter of its revenue and half its earnings from the same period last year. The NYT's New England unit, primarily The Boston Globe, saw revenue fall...

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