The Boston Globe is reporting that the Chicago Cubs contacted the Red Sox in an effort to interview Theo Epstein for a job - GM or higher, presumably - with the team. Peter Abraham credited Dan Shaughnessy with the scoop that allegedly came from a "team source." The team was meeting today to decide how to respond. Epstein needs the Sox ownership to approve as he is currently under contract. Boston could demand compensation from the Cubs if they hire Epstein, 37. He's been Sox GM since 2002. [Globe]
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Senator John Kerry now supports gay marriage. Who knew? He neglected to tell Bostonist.
Aaron Kushner's effort to buy the Boston Globe got a huge injection of credibility as Jack Connors confirmed he is an investor in the Wellesley entrepreneur's bid to buy the paper that is technically not for sale, according to Times Co. chief executive Janet Robinson. Connors, the chairman of Partners HealthCare, is reportedly a small investor in this group.
Boston has found the newest "dangerous" thing to focus on: the Segway. Federal prosecutors have issued a subpoena to Boston College for interviews held with members of the IRA. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
In what is an unmistakeable sign of the times in a troubled newspaper industry, the Boston Herald is negotiating with the Boston Globe to print and deliver even more copies of the Herald than it already does. The plan would call for the Globe to print all of the Saturday edition and parts of the daily and Sunday Herald at the Globe. The Globe already distributes the Herald in Cape Cod, southern New Hampshire and other areas.
On Friday, May 13 at 7:30 p.m., the Dorchester Speaker’s Forum features author and Boston Globe columnist Lawrence Harmon to discuss the how Boston’s neighborhoods have changed in the past 40 years. The forum is scheduled for Peabody Hall at All Saints Church, 209 Ashmont St., Dorchester and is free.
The Boston Globe is now ranked 8th on Google trends. When was the last time the Globe was trendy?
The four New York Times journalists, including two with connections to Boston, who were captured by Moammar Gadhafi loyalists in Libya last week have been released and are now in Tunisia. Former Boston Globe reporter Anthony Shadid, photographers Tyler Hicks, a BU graduate, and Lynsey Addario and videographer Stephen Farrell crossed the border into Tunisia after being turned over to the Turkish ambassador in Tripoli. Family members of the four journalists were relieved despite not knowing every detail of the ordeal. New York Times executive editor Bill Keller warned other journalists. "This is a reminder that real, boots-on-the-ground journalism is hard and sometimes dangerous work," he said. [Boston Herald]
We don't mean to scare you. Really. But, some recent medical news is reason to be concerned. The powerful superbug C-Diff is spreading. The Boston Globe reported that the many patient alarms that indicate potential heart, breathing, or other problem aren't heard or responded to.
A group named 2100 Trust, comprised of about a dozen investors, says it wants to buy the Boston Globe from the New York Times Co. Globe publisher Christopher M. Mayer reportedly told the paper's employees tonight that 2100 Trust hasn't contacted the Times Co. about buying the paper. Aaron Kushner said the group is developing a "business model" that we assume will lead to some kind of offer. Kushner, 37, lives in Wellesley and owns Marian Heath Greeting Cards Inc. in Wareham. The Globe is part of the New England Media Group along with Boston.com and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. About one year ago, the Globe wasn't for sale. [Boston Globe]
Attention Boston Globe: We do not like friendly questions for our candidates. We want everyone to be polite, of course. Please stick to the issues. We don't care about what books they read to their kids, or if they like chocolate. We ? Really?
The Globe's Overdrive blog about cars posed a question Bostonist has never considered:
In case you were wondering what the new "free" Boston Globe brand we're supposed to see sometime next year will bring, we found two examples of what we might see at Boston.com when it is separated from serious journalism. Today is 10/10/10, a quirky date to be sure. (We're more jazzed by January 1, 2011 - 1/1/1 - and November 11, 2011 - 11/11/11.) Boston.com gives 10 suggestions for ways to honor that date. The $10 Celtics tickets idea is the best. There's also a quiz testing 101 things every Bostonian should know. Remember, free.
Are two Boston Globes better than one? Find out next year.
We've never seen this on the Globe's dotcom before. That could mean Bostonist doesn't spend enough time on the Internets reading from the Globe's archive. Possible. But, it's beside the point for now.
A plan to charge readers for Boston Globe online content could be announced by the end of this year, according to executives at the New York Times Co. Martin Nisenholtz, senior vice president of digital operations, said the NYT Co. would announce "our pricing and our data strategy toward the end of the year." CEO Janet Robinson and Nisenholtz discussed possible Globe fees at a conference sponsored by Goldman Sachs on Wednesday. [Boston Business Journal]
In a skermish between Governor Deval Patrick and the Boston Globe, Bostonist wouldn't really support either side. We're underwhelmed by Governor Patrick, and, well, it's the Globe.
Tuesday was a bad day to visit the Dunkin' Donuts at 59 Causeway St. An unidentified man in a white and yellow striped shirt robbed that establishment with a gun. He reached into the register aftering ordering a clerk to open it. We had to wonder if he checked with the Boston Globe's Dunkin' Donuts map before stopping on Causeway St. Boston Police can be reached at 617-343-4572. Okay. We'll say it. He found a cop-less Dunkin' Donuts to hold up. You were thinking it.
Boston Globe photo editor Ted Gartland has what we'll call a memorable photo on Boston.com today. It's a shot of Mayor Tom Menino having his apparently injured, and bloody, lower left leg worked on by some unidentified man. Menino injured himself at the 11th Walk for Peace. He ended up requiring treatment inside an ambulance. In November of last year, Menino fell and hurt his knee and needed surgery. [Globe]
Senator Scott Brown may have a bought a teeny tiny apartment (Did he let wife Gail Huff see it first?) in Washington, D.C., but he has really big poll numbers in Massachusetts.
The Boston Globe reports Brown is the "most popular officeholder in Massachusetts" in a poll conducted by UNH last week. His 55% favorability rating tops President Obama (54%) and Senator John F. Kerry (52%) and other prominent Democrats. The poll also found that one-fourth of Bay State residents support Tea Party Groups while 71% of Tea Partyers are Pro-Brown.
The Globe says Democrats are concerned about running against the popular Brown in 2012 and want Vicki Kennedy to run against him. Please don't run, Vicki. Bostonist isn't issuing a backdoor endorsement of Brown. The idea of her running for Ted Kennedy's former job isn't an appealing one to us.
Most of us probably bought a hot beverage today as temperatures cooled in the Hub. It was probably coffee and likely came from Dunkin' Donuts, or possibly Starbucks. Despite what the Boston Globe thinks, finding a franchise from either brand doesn't require a map. Yes, they made up a map when all you need to find a Dunkin' Donuts or Starbucks is a pulse and eyes. Hey, at least the Globe is trying to help coffee lovers, right? In their own Globey way. Most of the Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks are located east of Worcester - no surprise. Dunkin' Donuts outnumbers Starbucks by a lot, which isn't news. You can also vote for your favorite chain. Bostonist didn't vote. We made our own coffee. :-)
The Boston Globe's average weekday circulation dropped 23.2% to 232,000 as of March 31, or a year after the circulation was over 300,000. It makes us wonder if the salad days of the Globe Death Watch have been foisted upon us again. The Globe has company in the declining circulation club as the Boston Herald (12%) and the Patriot Ledger (10%) also lost readers, just not as much as the Globe did. The Herald seemed almost proud that the Globe sucked much more than they did. According to WickedLocal.com, Fitchburg’s Sentinel & Enterprise circulation increased 2.2%.
Boston.com writer Courtney Hollands spends quite a bit of her professional life rewriting press releases for the "Go to It" blog. No shame in that; it's basically what we do all day long. But here's a pro tip. If you're going to lift a story from the pages of a well-liked local blog, it really won''t kill you to give the blog some credit.
Now that health care is go, Scott Brown is bored. So bored that he's inventing fake threats to his fake future candidacy for senate!
“Hegans,” or male vegans, were the subject of the Boston Globe’s most-emailed article yesterday, "Men leave their own mark on veganism." The fact that it was the most-emailed story is unsurprising to the more cynical among us, as “hegan” is not so much the mashup of “he” and “vegan” as it is the mashup of “gender stereotypes” and “controversial subjects”, a surefire recipe for clicks and almost irresistible bait for bloggers. And indeed, it generated a stir almost immediately.
Readers may have noticed Bostonist won't refrain from kicking the Boston Globe when it is down. Now, we're going to say nice things about the paper and its BusinessUpdates blog, which is one of the 61 blogs the Globe and Boston.com feel the need to have. We rarely peruse most of them.
However, we found some interesting news on Wednesday at the BusinessUpdates section.
Where all those Boston Globe wage concessions went: The New York Times's publisher and CEO both got $5 million, give or take, in 2009 bonuses. [Via UHub]
Hey, you know how if you get a CVS card, CVS will give you "bucks" for buying its overpriced crap? And sometimes little coupons print out on your receipt too? And you can use the bucks and coupons together but sometimes you have to have separate transactions to use all the bucks you've accumulated? And you always get stuck in line behind crazy people busting up their three items into three transactions for ultimate savings? Well, local lady Jamie Chase is one of those people holding up your line. Chase has mastered the clip and save, spending as little as $9 on a purchase "worth" $118 yet costing those forced to wait in line behind her complicated coupon-maximizing multiple transactions precious years of their lives, and her skills are so amazing that she merits her own Globe article that doesn't actually even reveal exactly what she is buying with all of these stupid coupons.
Since we spent so much time skewering Emerson for its terrible record of granting tenure to minority faculty, it's only fair that we draw your attention to this recent Globe article that looks at the tenure situation for minority faculty at all of Boston's private colleges. Are you surprised to learn that it's terrible? That must be because you have not spent any time at all in academia. [Globe]