Somewhat OT: Times Co. threatens to shutter Boston Globe.

[Paul Hopfgarten]

And Raymond's, King's, Gem.............

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From: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
To: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>; <ssmyth@psualum.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>; "Dan.Strassberg" 
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Subject: Re: Somewhat OT: Times Co. threatens to shutter Boston Globe.


> At 01:31 PM 4/5/2009, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>>Newspapers simply have not recovered from Craigs List which just
>>destroyed small classifieds. Monster has taken the bulk of major
>>employment ads and that is where papers made their profit.
>
> There's also consolidation-- Boston newspapers used to have huge circulars 
> from Jordan Marsh (gone), Filene's (gone), Filene's Basement (in big 
> trouble financially), Zayre's (gone), Lechmere (gone)... you get the 
> idea...And with car companies in trouble, the newspapers are really 
> struggling to find those big advertisers who used to keep them going in 
> the past.
>