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The Boston Globe is the oldest and largest daily newspaper in Boston and tenth-largest newspaper by print circulation in the nation as of 2023. [ 5 ] Founded in 1872, the paper was mainly controlled by Irish Catholic interests before being sold to Charles H. Taylor and his family.
Despite its nearly 150 years of publication today, the paper endured a rocky start. Pitched to the paper’s inaugural advertisers as “Something New in Journalism,” losses in the Great Boston Fire of 1872 and low circulation depleted the Globe’s founding capital of $150,000 within a year.
Sep 7, 2024 · The Boston Globe, daily newspaper published in Boston, the city’s largest and one of the most influential newspapers in the United States. Founded in 1872, the Globe grew slowly at first, reaching a circulation of about 8,000 in 1877, when it was purchased by Charles H. Taylor.
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Jul 26, 2013 · On Dec. 20, 2012, Brian McGrory took over as editor of the Globe. McGrory started working as a reporter for the paper in 1989 and over 23 years worked as a general assignment reporter,...
Mar 3, 2022 · The plan for a new publication had arrived on February 7, 1872, when a group of businessmen looked at Boston’s 10 newspapers, most of which were losing money, and decided to start an 11th....
The big news on the front page of the first Boston Globe on Monday, March 4, 1872 was church attendance the day before. It was ‘unusually large.’ Even bigger news was a new book about Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was ‘charming.’ No wonder the newspaper struggled during its first year.
The chief print rival of The Boston Globe is the Boston Herald, whose circulation is smaller and is shrinking faster. [8] The newspaper is "one of the nation's most prestigious papers". [7] In 1967, The Boston Globe became the first major paper in the U.S. to oppose the Vietnam War. [9]
