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Time to say your farewells to City Weekly
By adamg on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 8:19pm
The last issue is March 22, according to the internal memo just posted by Dan Kennedy. The memo also says the Globe expects to have 15 Your Town sites up by year's end.
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so what's next?
It reaches a certain point where there's no there there anymore, yah?
I'm sure it must be heartbreaking to be a long-time Globe staffer, watching this almost unyielding deterioration unfold.
A friend of mine who works at the Globe
is really heartbroken. I want to say that the City Weekly section contained the most consistently engaging local features. I will truly miss it.
It depends
If they can beef up the metro section with some of the stuff that used to appear in City Weekly, that might work.
But given that the memo talks about how the Globe is unable to sell advertising against "city" (i.e., Boston neighborhoods, Cambridge, Somerville and Brookline) stories, I wouldn't be too hopeful.
And yeah, I bet it does suck, both for the staffers involved and for people (like me) who enjoyed having a sort of weekly magazine.
Here's hoping Harry Fig survives.
So why can't the Globe sell ads here?
I mean even with the recession, there's plenty of disposable income in Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, Beacon Hill, Back Bay, South End, JP, gentrified Southie and North End, Rozzie, etc.
Ditto
Disposable income and local businesses.
The Boston.com Web site could, without requiring login, target ads by city.
Two strategies?
Hyperlocal sites are for change? Boston.com main site and print are for as much stability as possible?
I've been reading the Globe
I've been reading the Globe for most of my life and it is pretty heartbreaking as a reader to watch this unfold. City Weekly has been my favorite part of the Sunday Globe since its inception. Might just be the end of my Sunday print subscription.
I know what you mean, anon.
What's going to be cut out of the Boston Globe next? The Op-Ed section? I hope not, because t he Op-Ed section is a big part of why I like the Boston Globe, especially Sunday's issue.
Close to the last straw
This is very sad. It could cause me to finally cancel my Globe subscription.
Does Globe management have any inkling that the City Weekly section is also "too important to readers to dramatically reduce"? Without the City Weekly, the Globe would have next to no coverage of Cambridge, Somerville, or Brookline. Why are we less worthy than suburban readers who will still get TWO zoned sections a week?
It is too bad about the "City Weekly" Section cancellation.
However, they also stopped putting their weekly TV guide magazine, which also stinks.
Future cuts from a business-side source
The globe Washington D.C. Bureau, who recently won a pulitzer for the Ted Kennedy book, will be closing at the end of this month. They also just cut 50 in advertising and 30 in classifieds.
Stick a fork in it
The Globe is done.
They should just print a "New York Times - Boston Edition" already.
there are worse ideas
It might inflame the locals -- this would surely make Boston look like the outskirts of the NY metro region -- but surely the technology exists to do something like that and have it printed locally.
Odd
I didn't see any sort of notice in today's City Weekly that it was the last issue. Maybe I missed it.
City Weekly funeral delayed a week?
Ellen Steinbaum's "City Type" column on page 7 announces that it's her final column, but other than that, the section looks like business as usual. Page 2 still invites readers to send e-mail to [email protected] and [email protected].
I found this page of zone maps for advertisers, which makes me wonder if the section might have one more week to live. The internal memo that Dan Kennedy posted says City Weekly's last issue would be March 22, and Globe NorthWest on March 26. But the zone-map page has one map for "through April 1" and another "effective April 2", suggesting that both sections will publish their last issues on March 29.
Aha!
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