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--Boston NOW made a little boo-boo. [Boston Daily, Universal Hub, everyone but Boston NOW]

Pat Purcell, publisher of the Herald, has sold the Herald building and its land in the South End to a development group of which he is a part. Obviously the money-making potential of the paper pales in comparison to high-rent apartments and office space. The Globe labels Purcell's move as an "effort to transform Herald assets into cash and to streamline the tabloid's operations." If we translate that phrase, it might mean that Purcell is...

Media man Rupert Murdoch is ruffling some feathers here in Boston as a Globe columnist reported today that he’s looking to print the ever-classy NY Post here in Massachusetts. Why bother printing up here in Boston, you ask? Murdoch owned the Herald until 1994 when he was forced to sell the paper after federal law said he couldn’t own two media outlets in one market. He sold it to Pat Purcell, who had been running the Herald for the previous 10 years for him and continues in that roll now as owner of Herald Media, Inc. Although Purcell and Murdoch were once on the same team, it looks like Murdoch is looking to take his new business over to Morrissey Boulevard. He’s in negotiations to have the Boston Globe start printing 30,000-40,000 copies a day of the Post and they’ll be distributed using the Globe delivery service.