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Globe brings in some consultants to help newsroom reinvent itself
By adamg on Thu, 04/07/2016 - 12:58pm
Dan Kennedy gets a copy of the memo from Globe Editor Brian McGrory on a "no-sacred-cows analysis of our newsroom and what the Globe should look like in the future" in an era of constantly declining revenue. McGrory writes everything's on the table, even whether the Globe should continue printing on paper seven days a week while still running the "one of the most thoughtful metropolitan news organizations in the land."
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Fire the non-beat writers in the sports pages
That would save a ton of money.
As for the beat writers...
Amalie Benjamin is leaving the Globe to report for the NHL :( She's had a pretty considerable run with the Globe, too, as far as I know.
step 1
step 1: ditch the paywall. especially since it doesn't actually work [delete your cookies and you reset your free article count!]
step 2: hire decent writers
in the movie
he'll be called Sam Donovan and be played by William H Macy
Make it a charity?
Honest question: can't someone take it on as a nonprofit work of good citizenship? I thought that's what John Henry was doing when he bought the Globe. That's certainly what I'm doing when I pay $15/month for my Globe subscription, and $15/month for the Times. They're worthy public enterprises -- their investigative reporting, especially.
Is their converting to a nonprofit possible?
If converting to a non-profit means
eliminating advertising - especially on the web sites - as a condition of the non-profit status, I'm all for the idea.
why dump ads?
Being a non-profit doesn't mean you can't raise revenue through advertising.
Ideas
Keep Shaughnessy and dump everyone else. He's the star writer of the newspaper, everyone else is replaceable. I can't stand him, but it's true. Just run more AP stories instead of wasting money on Leung, Cohen, etc.
Hey Adam
I consider this comment to be hate speech and would like this IP address logged and banned for life?
JK, but good lord, I never thought I'd see someone defend CHB. Danny hates sports and just recycles his same tired miserable shtick over and over again.
CHB
Being honest, as with the Uconn women's hoop article/tweet last week, CHB got the entire country talking. If Shira Springer does the same thing, it'd be crickets.
You know who else got a lot of people talking?
Hitler.
Or more relevantly, hacks like Mazzaroti and Borges who can only create a stir by writing troll column. This is your standard for sports journalism? How how their 'takes' are? David Halberstam rolls in his grave.
but of course..
McGrory never
mentions home delivery in his Animal House Pluto speechy memo.
Bring back the Ombudsman
I have been reading the Globe almost daily since I learned to read in 1979 and used to like reading the Ombudsman's column. It was a huge mistake cutting that position out. I guess they couldn't take a little criticism.
Olympics, you say?
Like how Judas drove the Resurrection?
I have an idea how to revitalize the Globe, and it starts with a firing of Shirley Leung and anyone who still claims that suspicious disaster of fake journalism on such a huge issue was somehow a good thing.
Relax, the Feds got this.
Relax, the Feds got this.
The DOJ will keep the Globe going by leaking stuff to them with impunity:
http://mattofboston.com/go-to-ireland-young-man-to-ireland-tawdry-happen...
In bed with the DOJ, the Globe is no longer what anyone should call a true newspaper.
Ortiz, Wyshak and the rest of them pose a great danger to this country.