Apr
27
Boston Globe has a week to live. The Boston Globe inches ever closer to becoming the latest newspaper to shut down. Thursday, Janet Robinson, the chief executive of the New York Times Co., reiterated that the paper’s union has one week to agree to $20 million in concessions or follow Hearst Corporation’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer into the great newspaper bin in the sky. The Beantown paper is on track to lose $85 million this year.
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Wall Street Journal mini-site maps out newspaper woes. The Wall Street Journal on Friday launched an interactive mini-site that displays “adverse events” at the biggest US newspapers from 2006 to the present. Pressure on the Presses includes a US map plotting out events at the top 50 circulation newspapers. Users can drag a mouse over the market to get a pop-up description of problems at the individual paper. A color-coded guide indicates the troubles faced by the particular daily, including bankruptcy, reduced printed editions and closing.
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