Boston Globe
• Founded in 1872• Owned by New
York Times Co.• 380,000 M-F;
560,000 on Sunday• Boston.com
attracts 4.2m users/month
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Boston Herald
• Modern version created in 1982
• Pat Purcell bought from Murdoch in ’94
• 200,000 M-F; 110,000 on Sunday
• Web site visited by 1.2m users/month
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WBUR Radio (90.9 FM)
• NPR plus local reporting staff
• Top 5 ratings in all time slots
• Nonprofit ownership may be a model for future
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New England Cable News
• 24-hour regional television news
• Higher quality than most broadcast news– Two revenue
streams– Viewers are looking
for news
• Part of Boston.com• Link
WBZ radio and television
• Owned by CBS, a longstanding example of “synergy”
• Has retained commitment to quality
• Link to radio(AM 1030)
• Link to television (Channels 4, 38)
WCVB-TV (Channel 5)
• Once the best local newscast in the U.S.
• Decline in quality under corporate ownership
• Still better than most
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WHDH (Channels 7 and 56)
• Local ownership sold out after lack of success
• Miami-based owner introduced flashy graphics, shorter stories
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WFXT-TV (Channel 25)
• Part of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox empire
• Like WHDH, flashy graphics and fast pace
• 10 p.m. news gets big ratings
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Boston Phoenix
• A granddaddy of the alternative press, founded in 1966
• Arts, media, politics and pop culture
• Magazine-style opinion journalism
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Weekly Dig
• Newish competitor to the Phoenix
• Shorter stories, cheekier attitude
• Aimed at younger readers
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Boston Magazine
• Suburban lifestyle monthly
• Revolving door in the editor’s office
• Occasional strong coverage of politics, media
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CommonWealth Magazine
• Published by MassINC, a nonpartisan think tank
• Quarterly journal for policy wonks
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“Greater Boston”
• Only local public-affairs program on public station WGBH-TV (Channel 2)
• “Beat the Press” media roundtable on Fridays
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Free Monday-Friday dailies
• Young readers and subway riders
• Boston Metro is 49 percent owned by the New York Times Co. (link)
• BostonNOW has blog content in print and on the Web (link)
Bay Windows
• Leading paper for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community
• Follows in the footsteps of the Gay Community News
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Bay State Banner
• Covers the African-American community
• Follows in the footsteps of William Monroe Trotter’s Guardian
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Christian Science Monitor
• Based in Boston, but not of Boston
• Successful example of a mostly Web newspaper
• Nonprofit model, church woes create challenges
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Talk radio
• Mostly conservative, appeals to a sense of powerlessness
• Two stations are battling it out for the political talk audience– WRKO (AM 680) link– WTKK (96.9 FM) link