John Henry is shutting down Crux, the site for Catholic news. Layoffs, of course. The Globe is handing the domain over to John Allen, whom it had hired away from the National Catholic Reporter, and who could try to keep it going on his own.
Also, the Globe will also smush the BetaBoston tech site into the paywalled bostonglobe.com.
The memo from Globe Editor-in-Chief Brian McGrory and bostonglobe.com General Manager David Skok: Read more.
The Globe self reports it's ditched the fancy new delivery company with the snazzy circulation software for its previous delivery company, which actually managed to deliver papers.
Now maybe the Globe can work on its app issues.
Spotlight's win as Best Picture probably came a bit late for him to stay up for over in Rome.
The actual reporters and editors who told the stories of the pedophile priests and their victims were in the auditorium. One of them, Matt Carroll, livetweeted the experience. Read more.
There can be only one? Not when it comes to having the exclusive first interview with Boston Latin School Headmaster Lynne Mooney Teta, apparently. Both the Globe and the Herald have interviews up with Boston Latin School Headmaster Lynne Mooney Teta. Both claim theirs is the first since the start of the Black at BLS protest.
Also neither noted her choice of purple for her outfit, but maybe only people associated with the school somehow would notice that.
But where the Globe just reported what she said, the Herald found her "evasive." In fact, its headline is: "Boston Latin headmaster ducks questions in first interview."
Last month, as you may recall, a syndicated columnist the Globe runs got caught sincerely answering a question based on a Seinfeld episode. Somebody tried the same shtik on Miss Conduct, but she was having none of it (second question).
Larry Davidson, who teaches math at Weston High School, reports a fellow teacher used the Globe's delivery problems, in particular, the new delivery company's inability to develop good routes for carriers, to develop a lesson plan:
The biggest issue was the “traveling salesman problem”: trying to find the most efficient route through a large number of locations. We simulated the problem by asking each group to find the shortest path to deliver papers to all their homes (as well as a couple of other sites). Since we couldn’t have realistically large groups, we at least were able to add interest and complexity by ensuring that each group contained a mixture of Weston and Boston students. There’s no perfect general solution, but we were able to compare different options.
An alert Globe reader alerts us about today's Ask Amy column, specifically, the second question, which reads:
I recently ran into a famous local sports figure at my gym.
The Globe Magazine this week is all about weddings, with the centerpiece a trend story about how millennial weddings are different from earlier weddings, because millennials incorporate personal touches and little reminders of their lives into their ceremonies and even gowns, unlike their older sisters and mothers - and they're rejecting the big, expensive weddings of the past, as exemplified by one couple getting married at this little, obscure place called the Copley Plaza.
The Globe itself gives us an anatomy of the home-delivery disaster, and reveals, for the first time, that John Henry visited one of those distribution centers:
"It's 6,400 papers," he said, grimly, to no one in particular.
Meanwhile, crickets quietly chirp at the timid tabloid, where the last story about the Globe, on Dec. 11, was about its move to a downtown office building.
Dan Kennedy reports the Globe reporters' union has filed a formal grievance with management over the fact that the newsroom at John Henry's new Stat biotech joint is not unionized.
Earlier:
Globe reporters back to delivering papers.
Globe editors and reporters to deliver papers.
Aviva Chomsky discusses what happened to Globe deliverers in the Lynn area when the paper switched distribution companies: The new company ditched accident insurance, forced the deliverers it did take on to handle longer routes and decreased the per-paper fee they got. Also:
At the old distribution center in Lynn, they folded and bagged their papers inside the facility, with plenty of light, tables, and access to bathrooms. In Woburn, they are forced to do it outdoors in the icy darkness, or awkwardly inside their cars.
DM Nelson reports Thunder's morning job used to be to go out to the driveway and retrieve the morning Globe. But now, "he's ready to file for unemployment."
Sorry for the delay. @BostonGlobe delivery boy and girl at your service and on the way pic.twitter.com/AN0kXsJzwt
— David Abel (@davabel) January 10, 2016
This evening, Emily Rooney at WGBH reported that John Henry and Globe CEO Mike Sheehan ignored warnings from their own circulation department that the new home-delivery system could fail.
Henry fired back tonight in a tweet:
WGBH now has added a fiction writer to its news lineup. Makes for great stories!
UPDATE: John Henry vs. Emily Rooney.
With the timid tabloid completely abdicating its responsibility to snark the Globe upside the head, we're lucky to have two fine local pundits to give us dueling views of the latest in the home-delivery crisis: John Henry's apology. Read more.
The Globe reports it's bringing back the company it dumped for allegedly not being able to retain customers that well to service half the paper routes the shiny new company that the Globe brought on managed to mess up.
Ed. note: Yeah, I'm also hoping there's nothing else to report about Globe home delivery today.
We weren't the only ones who wondered what would happen when all those exhausted Globe reporters went home Sunday after delivering papers. Looks like David Bernstein found their replacement: A "sharing economy" startup that launched last year to hire people to staff parties is now looking for people to assemble and deliver newspapers out of some unspecified media organization's distribution centers in Newton and Pembroke, which just happen to be where the Globe has distribution centers.
They're paying $12 an hour, plus you get $24 a day for car expenses. And you can start, as the ad says, TONIGHT! Even better:
After you deliver the papers you are free to go straight home and you do not need to report back to the distribution center.
Oh, but you will have to report at 2 a.m.
Just take a look at ACI Last Mile's page for would be publisher customers:
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