Boston Herald files for bankruptcy (then sold)

[AtomicDawg]

Wish it was the Globe. Feel sorry for Jeff Howe, K. Guregian and others who kept on trucking. Sad times but it is what it is.

But I don't feel sorry for people like Borges and Tomase for reasons that have been well documented on this space.

 

[Kontradiction]

 

[RobertWeathers]

Wish it was the Globe. Feel sorry for Jeff Howe, K. Guregian and others who kept on trucking. Sad times but it is what it is.

But I don't feel sorry for people like Borges and Tomase for reasons that have been well documented on this space.

Seems to me this is not the end for those folks. Gatehouse Media owns the Worcester T&G and other local newspapers.

Of course, they need to get the finances squared away. Therein lies the problem.

 

[PatsGuy]

IS Howe a better read than Volin? For my own eyes, I’d take Howe 6 days a week and 2x on Sunday. I follow both on Twitter. Volin is well.. consistently asking us to read someone else’s column. Howe? Howe I READ. Maybe because he actually has relations with the team n offers something to think about. If there is a way to convey my pro Howe sentiment to Gatehouse, I’ll do that!!

 

[AtomicDawg]

Seems to me this is not the end for those folks. Gatehouse Media owns the Worcester T&G and other local newspapers.

Of course, they need to get the finances squared away. Therein lies the problem.

According to this at the meeting they were told they have to reapply and re-interview.

 

[IcyPatriot]

I like checking on the sports articles in the morning ... they are not great but they are local perspective.
Probably won't be free anymore so that will be it for me and it is what it is.

 

[RobertWeathers]

According to this at the meeting they were told they have to reapply and re-interview.

Thats harsh.

 

[RobertWeathers]

I like checking on the sports articles in the morning ... they are not great but they are local perspective.
Probably won't be free anymore so that will be it for me and it is what it is.

Hope they keep Howie Carr. Love it when he exposes the hacks on Beacon Hill.

 

[maineman209]

Only $4.5 million?

Pffft! I could have bought them out of my lottery winnings!

As soon as I win the lottery.

 

[BradyFTW!]

Ever since the whole Tomase fiasco I've gone out of my way to have nothing to do with the Herald. It sucks that good people are going to lose their jobs, but as an institution the Herald can get ****ed.

 

[patchick]

Ever since the whole Tomase fiasco I've gone out of my way to have nothing to do with the Herald. It sucks that good people are going to lose their jobs, but as an institution the Herald can get ****ed.

While I feel much the same about the Herald in particular, the precarious state of the news industry in general is so chilling to me that I hate news like this.

 

[oldrover]

Hope they keep Howie Carr. Love it when he exposes the hacks on Beacon Hill.

I doubt they boot many writers if any... unique content is their only hope. Definitely not Howie... his following is large and not limited to Boston; it spans his radio network throughout New England.

 

[Nunchucks]

Embracing the crazy in Massachusetts is just a bad business decision. Anybody who looked at the front page of the Herald would know the publication was not long for this earth in its current form

 

[VrabelMayeWin]

I really like Jeff Howe, he would be a big loss to Patriots coverage if he ends up leaving. Hopefully he stays.

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

Old media's business model is dead. Old media needs to slash operating costs and come up with new ways to get their virtual product in front of viewers to generate online ad rev (pay walls/OL subscriptions isn't going to generate anything anywhere close to funding the old model).
Internet, tablets, smartphones, megacorp Internet based companies as Internet/software choke points, cheap website hosting, bandwidth availability -- the game has changed forever. Delivery of content through the Internet is also going to squeeze legacy media delivery systems (cable, satellite) which will squeeze orgs like ESPN.

The Internet and convenient user friendly net access devices killed the proverbial radio star -- and killed it forever.

 

[farn]

So many people lament the loss of papers. But few buy the papers.

Losing a pension hurts. But staying in the paper business isn’t a good decision anymore.

 

[patfanken]

Old media's business model is dead. Old media needs to slash operating costs and come up with new ways to get their virtual product in front of viewers to generate online ad rev (pay walls/OL subscriptions isn't going to generate anything anywhere close to funding the old model).
Internet, tablets, smartphones, megacorp Internet based companies as Internet/software choke points, cheap website hosting, bandwidth availability -- the game has changed forever. Delivery of content through the Internet is also going to squeeze legacy media delivery systems (cable, satellite) which will squeeze orgs like ESPN.

The Internet and convenient user friendly net access devices killed the proverbial radio star -- and killed it forever.

I hope some people remember that there was a time when the Newspapers in this town in the 50's and 60's were able to get a paper to the public without computer or any of the modern printing and delivery techniques, not just once a day but TWICE.

Yes Martha, when I was young and first starting to read the paper (mostly for the sports and comics), the newspaper industry was able to produce a paper that was on your doorstep (or available at the store) first thing in the morning, and THEN have a different up to the minute publication (relatively speaking) after 4 PM in the afternoon. The Herald was the morning paper and old fogies like me will remember the Traveler, which was the afternoon paper. THEY combined and became the Herald-Traveler which ultimately became just the Herald.

That reminds me of one of the great mysteries that make me go Hmmmmm. When I was a pre-teen in the 50's, the much maligned now USPS was able to deliver the mail TWICE a day (morning and afternoon deliveries), and if you sent a letter from Boston to someone in MA, it was likely to get there the next day. And all for 3 cents a stamp. Now it seems that despite all the computers, sorters, optical scanners, etc; if you mail something locally you'd be happy to have it get there in 3-4 days. Why is that?

When you are retired you tend to think of sh!t like this from time to time.

 

[Tunescribe]

the precarious state of the news industry in general is so chilling to me that I hate news like this.

Yes. However (allegedly) outmoded print media is, it retains a comparatively higher standard of depth and objectivity vs. the more sensationalistic/entertainment-oriented broadcast news outlets. I assume the Herald will continue under new ownership but in what form and quality is yet to be seen.

 

[FCB02062]

I'll miss Wingo

 

[sportnik]

Serves them right for publishing the Spygate article by that fat piece of trash Tomase the week of Super Bowl XLII. I think people forget the extent to which the national media went crazy after that story came out.

I will go to my grave believing that that article cause a distraction that cost the Pats a perfect season. The Herald has been dead to me since.