The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has received 27 Pulitzer Prizes and has a circulation of nearly 300,000 print and digital subscribers. The Boston Globe is the city’s oldest and largest daily newspaper.
The paper was founded in 1872 and was primarily controlled by Irish Catholic interests before being purchased by Charles H. Taylor and his family. It was privately held until 1973, when it was sold to The New York Times for $1.1 billion in 1993, making it one of the most expensive print purchases in US history. The New York Times Company sold the newspaper to Boston Red Sox and Liverpool owner John W. Henry for $70 million in 2013 after it had lost more than 90% of its value in 20 years.
The paper has been described as “one of the country’s most prestigious papers.” The Boston Globe was the first major newspaper in the United States to oppose the Vietnam War in 1967. The newspaper’s coverage of the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal in 2002 drew international attention and served as the inspiration for the 2015 American drama film Spotlight. The Boston Globe’s editor is Brian McGrory, who took over in December 2012. The chief print rival of The Boston Globe is the Boston Herald, which has a smaller circulation that is declining more rapidly.
The Boston Globe was founded in 1872 by six Boston businessmen who pooled their $150,000 investment (equivalent to $3,392,917 in 2021). Eben Dyer Jordan, founder of the Jordan Marsh department store, and Cyrus Wakefield, founder of the Wakefield Rattan Company and namesake of the town of Wakefield, Massachusetts, were among the founders. On March 4, 1872, the first issue was published and sold for four cents (equivalent to $0.9 in 2021). In August 1873, Jordan hired Charles H. Taylor as temporary business manager; in December, Taylor signed a contract to be general manager of the paper for two years. He would serve as The Boston Globe’s first publisher until his death in 1921 and was succeeded by four of his descendants until 1999.
The Globe, which began as a morning daily, added a Sunday edition in 1877. The Boston Weekly Globe, which catered to mail subscribers outside of the city, was published weekly from 1873 until it was absorbed by the Sunday edition in 1892. The Boston Globe began publishing an afternoon edition called The Boston Evening Globe in 1878, which ceased publication in 1979. The Boston Globe had become a stronghold by the 1890s, with an editorial staff dominated by Irish American Catholics.
The Globe was one of four newspapers that formed the Associated Newspapers syndicate in 1912, along with the Chicago Daily News, The New York Globe, and The Philadelphia Bulletin. In the early 1900s, Charles H. Taylor was responsible for making the Globe the most-used Newspaper in New England. He went into greater depth about social movements like the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Other competitors, such as The Boston Post, did not place as much emphasis on these social movements.
The Globe correctly predicted the re-election of Republican incumbent Leverett Saltonstall in the 1940 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, using methods pioneered by Charles H. Taylor; rival The Boston Post predicted the race incorrectly for Democrat Paul A. Dever.
Laurence L. Winship was appointed editor in 1955, ending a 75-year run by the paper’s publishers. Over the next decade, the Globe rose from third to first place in a competitive field of eight Boston newspapers.
The Globe relocated from Washington Street in downtown Boston to Morrissey Boulevard in the Dorchester neighborhood in 1958. Thomas Winship succeeded his father as editor in 1965. The younger Winship elevated the Globe from a mediocre local paper to a regional publication of national renown. He served as editor until 1984, during which time the paper won a dozen Pulitzer Prizes, the first in the paper’s history.
Until 1973, the Boston Globe was a private company that went public under the name Affiliated Publications. It was still managed by Charles H. Taylor’s descendants. The Boston Globe became a wholly owned subsidiary of The New York Times Company after The New York Times Company purchased Affiliated Publications for US$1.1 billion in 1993. The Jordan and Taylor families received substantial The New York Times Company stock, but by 1999 the last Taylor family members had left management.
Boston.com, The Boston Globe’s online edition, debuted on the World Wide Web in 1995. It has won numerous national awards and two regional Emmy Awards for its video work and is consistently ranked among the top ten newspaper websites in America.
The Boston Globe has long been regarded as the pinnacle of American journalism. In 1974 and 1984, Time magazine named it one of the ten best US daily newspapers, and in 1999, the Globe tied for sixth in a national survey of top editors who chose “America’s Best Newspapers” in the Columbia Journalism Review.
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