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Report: Globe's been losing up to $1 million a week

The Boston Business Journal reports on the paper's financial health, says losses have been accelerating faster than job cuts and other cost-cutting measures (but not including the recent redesign).

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This is a death spiral. There are only a few ways to save this much money, most of them involving layoffs. But if you cut newsroom or advertising staff, you hobble the means by which money is made. The product grows weaker, less of it sells, and the cycle repeats.

You gotta wonder if moving to an all-digital format, like the Christian Science Monitor, is the answer. Would that even save enough money? Would it save more, allowing the enterprise to re-stregthen its newsroom?

And it sounds like things are no better at the Mother Ship in NYC.

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it will all be Bush's fault...

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Don't worry, Globies -- the Obama administration will be sure to bail out their friends at the NYT and associated newspapers. 1/2 :)

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NYT tried to sell the Globe - no one wanted it. At any price.

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