Monday morning odds and ends
I don’t plan to do much blogging this week, but I do want to call your attention to a few items: Chuck Tanowitz and Adam Reilly have both written sharp analyses of GateHouse Media’s lawsuit against the...
View ArticleThe Herald-Ottaway connection
Rupert Murdoch’s decision to put Boston Herald publisher Pat Purcell in charge of his Ottaway community-newspaper division is paying some dividends for the Herald. Today the Herald collaborates with...
View ArticleMurdoch sells local papers to GateHouse investor
Rupert Murdoch is selling The Middleboro Gazette, the weekly that covers the Southeastern Massachusetts town where I grew up. I’m not sure Murdoch ever knew he owned it in the first place. It’s just...
View ArticleBBJ scores big on two local media stories
The Boston Business Journal has come up aces during the past week with two meaty stories on local media news. • A shaky future at the Globe. The first, published last Friday, found that confidential...
View ArticleHow Rupert Murdoch saved the Boston Herald — not just once, but twice
As I noted Thursday, one of the few positive contributions Rupert Murdoch can take credit for is preserving The Wall Street Journal as a great national newspaper. Another is that he saved the Boston...
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