Jeff Sonderman
June 13, 2012
4:12 pm
ICANN |
Boston Globe |
Nieman Lab |
Forbes |
Wall Street Journal
Several media companies are among
hundreds of applicants for new top-level Internet domains identified today by the organization that controls the Web's naming system.
The new custom domain extensions go beyond the traditional .com and .net -- about 2,000 applicants are bidding to control all kinds of new custom domains like .news or .book.
Among the applicants are The Boston Globe, which would like to administer all
.boston websites, so in the future you might find its website at "news.boston" instead of bostonglobe.com. Also applying are The Guardian (.guardian, .theguardian and .guardianmedia), AOL (.aol and .patch), CBS (.cbs and .showtime), ABC (.abc), FOX (.fox), HBO (.hbo), The BBC (.bbc), The Weather Channel (.weather), and Bloomberg (.bloomberg).
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Steve Myers
Apr. 13, 2012
2:34 pm
Society for News Design
Even in awards season, you don't often see praise as high as the Society for News Design has lavished on BostonGlobe.com, which uses "responsive design" to resize the site for all kinds of devices:
The Globe’s intrepid embrace of responsive design rewrote the equation of our industry’s expectations and ambitions and defined state-of-the-art across the Web. Most importantly, the site embraces the increasingly chaotic ecosystem of devices without sacrificing thoughtfulness or splintering user experience. ...
The Globe’s responsive design is remarkable and deserves to be noted as one of the key moments in media design history, akin to USA Today’s embrace of color and graphics. Its impact will affect a generation of digital journalists and is an example of what’s possible when smart design and rich content is balanced with a focus on being standards compliant and future-friendly across all platforms.
On the other hand, the judges found mobile and tablet entries lacking, saying they "did not seem to universally embrace the touch-medium. ... These apps should better fulfill their different place in the lives of their users and address specific needs, not just replicating print or web-based experiences."
Earlier: How the Boston Globe built an all-in-one website, Web app and mobile site (Poynter) ||
Related: Rex Hammock asks, "Isn’t fumbling iPad opportunities the favorite pastime of magazine publishers?" (RexBlog.com)
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Jan. 26, 2012
6:30 am
Boston Globe says story about CIA & Charles Taylor overstepped evidence
“Editor’s note: A front-page story on Jan. 17 drew unsupported conclusions and significantly overstepped available evidence when it described former Liberia president Charles Taylor as having worked with US spy agencies as a ‘sought-after source.’ The story, based on a response by the US Defense Intelligence Agency to a long-pending records request from the Globe, described the agency’s response as having ‘confirmed its agents and CIA agents worked with Taylor beginning in the early 1980s.’
“But the agency offered no such confirmation; rather, it said only that it possessed 48 documents running to 153 pages that fall in the category of what the Globe asked for – records relating to Taylor and to his relationship, if any, with American intelligence going back to 1982. The agency, however, refused to release the documents and gave no indication of what was in them.
“One of the grounds for that refusal was suggestive, citing the need to protect ‘intelligence sources and methods,’ but that, by itself, fell well short of a sufficient basis for the published account. There has long been speculation that Taylor had such a role, speculation fueled in part by Taylor’s own suggestion in trial testimony that his 1985 escape from prison in Plymouth, Mass., may have been facilitated by CIA operatives. But Taylor, now standing trial before a UN special court on charges of rape, murder, and other offenses, denies he was ever a source for, or worked for, US intelligence.
“The Globe had no adequate basis for asserting otherwise and the story should not have run in this form.”
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Editor's note in The Boston Globe
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Craig Silverman
Jan. 18, 2012
4:45 pm
The Boston Globe wrote a Monday feature about a couple that “found love at Occupy Boston.” The story, which was accompanied by a big photo of the two lovebirds kissing, reads:
“Holding hands outside the food tent before the encampment
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Jan. 13, 2012
9:57 am
“Times Co. has held onto the [Globe] more because it hasn’t gotten the right offer than because of a desire to keep it in the corporate family, people familiar with the company’s thinking said.”
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The Wall Street Journal's Russell Adams
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Jan. 8, 2012
2:30 pm
Boston Globe
Later this month, The Boston Globe will start printing and delivering the Boston Herald -- a move that will enable the tabloid to reduce delivery expenses. About 50 truck drivers and other delivery personnel will lose their jobs. Globe Publisher Christopher M. Mayer called it an "advantageous business opportunity" that makes sense given the overlap in both papers' distribution. The Globe will deliver the Herald's city edition Sunday through Friday and will print the paper's full press run on Saturdays. The Globe will also start delivering other publications that the Herald currently distributes, including Barron's magazine and New England editions of the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal. Printing and delivery work is a growing part of the Globe, which already prints a couple other papers in Massachusetts. Editorial operations at the Globe and the Herald will remain separate.
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Craig Silverman
Jan. 3, 2012
4:41 pm
It used to be that December and January would bring with them the publication of columns by newspaper editors and ombudsmen that offered an accounting of the number of corrections published by their organization that year.
So far, I’ve seen … Read more
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Jim Romenesko
Nov. 7, 2011
1:51 pm
Mass. Market
Jon Chesto points out that unlike nearly every other paper in Massachusetts, the Sunday Boston Globe actually gained circulation during the past six months. He suspects one reason for this is the Globe's paywall pricing structure: The Globe told readers they'd need to start paying a $4 weekly fee to join BostonGlobe.com.
This digital subscription is being made available for free to all Globe print subscribers – even those who just subscribe to the Sunday paper. And guess what? That $3.50 weekly charge for Sunday-only delivery, plus online access, (or $1.75 for a few weeks if you take advantage of the paper’s new subscriber promotion) is actually less than the $4 weekly cost for online access to BostonGlobe.com alone.
My guess is that there were a number of readers who still wanted full online access and figured it made sense to subscribe to the Sunday Globe to continue that access – and get the Sunday paper on top of it.
Chesto predicts the Globe's Sunday print circulation will continue to rise -- "probably even stronger than in the past six months ... but at some point, it’s likely this growth will level off after most of the loyal readers currently making the transition to a paying digital model are done with the switch." ||
Earlier: NYT circulation grows after it starts charging for web access. ||
Chicago Tribune Sunday circulation grows, thanks in part to Groupon deal.
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