Comments on: Goodbye Boston Globe? http://techprgems.com/2009/04/goodbye-boston-globe/ Conversations about PR, social media, technology and marketing -- with a special focus on the social media community in Greater Boston Wed, 23 May 2012 09:49:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Amy Krigman http://techprgems.com/2009/04/goodbye-boston-globe/comment-page-1/#comment-1190 Amy Krigman Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:50:45 +0000 http://techprgems.com/?p=1567#comment-1190 I agree it will be a sad day if the Globe folds. We still get the Sunday Globe at home as both my husband and I enjoy reading the paper (when we can). Sincerely hoping that, at the very least, the Globe will take the same approach as the Christian Science Monitor - digital during the week and a printed edition on the weekends. Perhaps this would be a good way to satisfy folks like me who still want to read print in a limited way but most of the time will only be logging on. I agree it will be a sad day if the Globe folds. We still get the Sunday Globe at home as both my husband and I enjoy reading the paper (when we can). Sincerely hoping that, at the very least, the Globe will take the same approach as the Christian Science Monitor – digital during the week and a printed edition on the weekends. Perhaps this would be a good way to satisfy folks like me who still want to read print in a limited way but most of the time will only be logging on.

]]> By: Tom Francoeur http://techprgems.com/2009/04/goodbye-boston-globe/comment-page-1/#comment-1188 Tom Francoeur Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:17:11 +0000 http://techprgems.com/?p=1567#comment-1188 I agree, it will be sad to see the Globe go, but not just 20-somethings are ditching print. I'm in my 40's, I grew up in the Boston area and now I live in the South End and I don't read the Globe in print. I get all of my news online. And for hyper-local news, I read my neighborhood newspaper - The South End News. Even on those occassional Sunday when I treat myself to the paper, I'll buy the NY Times because I like the Book Review and Arts coverage. Sad to say it, newspaper readers like my parents are from another era. My parents still read The Lowell Sun and The Boston Globe - in print - nearly every word. I have fond memories of the newspaper pages piling up at their feet as they made their way through, section by section. But that's just it. Those are memories and I haven't had any newsprint stains on my fingers for about a decade now. I agree, it will be sad to see the Globe go, but not just 20-somethings are ditching print. I’m in my 40′s, I grew up in the Boston area and now I live in the South End and I don’t read the Globe in print. I get all of my news online. And for hyper-local news, I read my neighborhood newspaper – The South End News. Even on those occassional Sunday when I treat myself to the paper, I’ll buy the NY Times because I like the Book Review and Arts coverage.

Sad to say it, newspaper readers like my parents are from another era. My parents still read The Lowell Sun and The Boston Globe – in print – nearly every word. I have fond memories of the newspaper pages piling up at their feet as they made their way through, section by section.

But that’s just it. Those are memories and I haven’t had any newsprint stains on my fingers for about a decade now.

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