Boston Globe to close foreign bureaus (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Sharewatch ^ | January 23, 2007

[Milhous]

The move, detailed in a memo to staff from the newspaper's editor, Martin Baron, comes after the Globe's parent company, The New York Times Co., announced earlier this month that it would eliminate about 125 positions through buyouts and other steps at the Globe and the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester.

Baron said the four people who work in the bureaus would be offered positions in Boston.

"Continuing to bear the expense of our foreign bureaus would have required us to reduce staffing by a dozen or so positions beyond those already announced," Baron wrote. "We concluded that it would be unwise to meet the newsroom's financial targets by making additional staff reductions." Al Larkin, the Globe's executive vice president, said the closures would save the company more than $1 million annually. The paper would continue to send reporters overseas for special projects and breaking news, but wanted to reduce the overhead in maintaining the bureaus, he said.

Larkin said the closures, expected to be completed in the next couple of months, were a response to decreased circulation and advertising revenue.

"I think that we're going to continue to look at operating our entire organization as efficiently as we can," Larkin said. "I don't anticipate any (other) major changes, particularly in our newsroom."

[Milhous]

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[Paleo Conservative]

I didn't think they even had a bureau in Texas.

[onyx]

Good news BUMP

[IncPen]

I didn't think they even had a bureau in Texas.

Mary Mapes answered the phones there...

[Milhous]

This story mentions 3 locations:

Boston Globe to close foreign bureaus

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The Globe, which opened its first foreign bureau in the early 1970s, now has bureaus in Jerusalem, Berlin and Bogota, Colombia. The four reporters in those bureaus will be offered jobs in Boston. The Globe will continue to send reporters and photographers overseas on special projects and for certain major events, Baron said.
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[Cicero]

I used to read the Globe occasionally because my aunt subscribed to it many years ago. As I recall, they had very little foreign news of any kind--in fact very little news at all--but what foreign news they have was mostly syndicated columns from the Times.

Isn't that mostly what they're doing now anyway? Just some kind of misplaced pride in themselves that they thought they could do more.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I think "Foreign Bureau" means west of the Hudson or south of Long Island Sound.

[bert]

.....Bogota....

Why Bogata?
Who in Boston gives a damn about Bogata?

No London Bureau?
No Paris Bureau?
No Baghdad breau?

They were already out of the business and didn't know it.

[samadams2000]

How many people does it take to tell One Big Lie???

[Cicero]

Probably their reporter in Bogota reported on the prospects for the next marijuana harvest.

[OldFriend]

They'll keep their focus on faxes from the DNC. The only source for news needed by these folks.

[Milhous]

Yet another fishwrap on a Geo budget trying to live a Cadillac dream but getting reduced to fighting for its very existence.

[CalvaryJohn]

I am just loving this. And talk radio and internet news just keep growing.

[Milhous]

Who in Boston gives a damn about Bogata?

My thoughts exactly.

[Gorzaloon]

Why Bogata?

Who in Boston gives a damn about Bogata?

If you wrote for the Globe you would!!

Bogata, Bogata...That's in COLOMBIA I bet.

What comes from Colombia...Hmm..Emeralds, coffee, and..ummm...I forget...But I bet the Globe writers remember.

[Milhous]

How many people does it take to tell One Big Lie???

Besides their myth-maker role in the telling of the One Big Lie fishwrappers seem to fancy themselves as gnarly world class political activists with tons of clout to throw around.

[Red_Devil 232]

I get my newspaper from U-Haul! They carry all the "News That Is Fit To Print". It is a very clean rag!

[RJL]

The paper would continue to send reporters overseas for special projects and breaking news...

They've also found that they can cheaply hire any number of terrorists and other anti-Americans to photograph and write the same message as their own hate America journalists.

[OldFriend]

CeeBS was all set to send Couric to New Orleans if the Saints won....so they could do another story on Katrina!

Too bad, so sad!