The Herald is $8 per week to subscribe for home delivery, 7 days (reg price $2 per day)
“... the Globe’s owner, John Henry, has complained about the cost of printing the paper at the Taunton printing plant that opened last June. In an email interview with the Business Journal in January, Henry said the company spends “triple the industry average to print and produce a newspaper,” and warned that if he can’t rein in expenses, the Globe may “end up being printed where costs are reasonable.” Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern journalism professor and the author of “The Return of the Moguls: How Jeff Bezos and John Henry Are Remaking Newspapers for the Twenty-First Century,” said it makes sense for the Globe to charge a lot for subscriptions. At $30 a month after discounts have expired, the newspaper’s digital prices are already more than the New York Times, the Washington Post “or anyone else that I know of,” he said.
“A dozen years ago I would have said that print would be gone by now,” Kennedy said in an email. “It lives on, and probably will stay that way for many years to come — but not as a mass-market product. Print is becoming a niche product for people willing to pay for it.”
But a large part of the Globe;’s revenue still comes from advertising, and print ads continue to be much more valuable than online ones.”
Boston Globe is owned by the NYT. They’re pricing themselves out of the market.
Expensive liberal fishwrap. Another dying fake news media outlet.
This foretells the end of printed papers in the USA. Too expensive for normal people. Soon only the rich liberal elite will be reading print papers.
Yeah but you’ll make up the savings with coupons! < /sarc >
Old people buy newspapers so they can keep up with the obituaries.
The millenials will never buy them.
Clearly they want to go full online. Why not just do it now?
The Bowtied Bumkissers of Morrisey Blvd. strike again.
Our little hometown paper is that for a whole year. The two freebie ones are just as informative.
Advertisers are shifting their bucks to online more and more. Some European papers are free. It is not worth the effort to collect subscription fees and to deliver at homes.
Next day's headlines:
NY Times: World To End Today,Story On Page A19
Wall Street Joural: World To End Today,Markets To Close Early
USA Today: We're History!
Boston Globe: World To End Today,Women And Minorities Hit Hardest
I see newspapers as being like milk....most people buy milk at the store, but a few diehards still like having it delivered.
Marko
One can buy a whole roll of Brawny paper towel, lasts a lot longer than a week’s worth of the newspaper to line the cage, and costs merely a fraction, AND, has no print to offend the eyes.
Home delivery newspapers?
In the day and age of up to the minute and live streaming news from every corner of the world on demand in text or video from reporters or just people who happen to be on the scene or about any subject free in the palm of your hand?
Hello? The middle ages called, they would like their technology back
How many bird cages/pet cages does someone need?
By my late teens I was avidly reading the Globe and the ever transitioning competition.
The Record was for simpletons who were unable to understand the big words in the pompous Globe. The Globe was such an outrageously biased journal that it literally became unreadable for me about 30 years ago. I just wanted to toss it in the trash by page 2.
Too bad because there were a few diamonds in that pit. Jeff Jacoby later was their pet conservative for years but they regularly neutered him. I gave it up by 1991, but here and there would pick up a copy for his sake, He was available on line, might still be.
Few exceptions were the 9-11 editions and later that first World Series win which I sent to Troops in Iraq.
Henry, who is a real piece of work, has propped up Globe rag for years now. That Commie crap should have gone under a decade ago. Now the Herald which increasingly swerved left is doomed. I stopped reading their garbage many months ago.
Newspapers in Boston are dead, but the illusion continues to be maintained, almost certainly for sinister purposes.
Expect Herald home delivery rates to also skyrocket, as are the Globe’s rates. The Herald was recently sold to Digital First Media, which is owned by a wealthy Hedge fund owner. He currently owns 200+ newspaper bought cheap, and now laying off staff faster than subscribers cancel. This results in huge profits for the owner, who cares zero about real news coverage.
The San Jose Mercury News and its Bay Area News Group has laid off 90% of its newsroom staff in the last few years, since being sold to Digital First Media. Every familiar news staff person is gone, laid off or paid off to retire. Nowadays, the Mercury News relieves on that hateful Washington Post for most its editorials. After quickly noting the editorial or article has been provided by WaPo, you can skip to next article. Don’t bother reading its all negative and distorted news.
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2018/02/09/bay-area-news-group-hammered-by-more-layoffs-resignations/
So after the initial layoffs at the Herald, expect much further lay offs over the next several years — until nothing is left. Only the Hedge fund owner gets wealthy off the backs of hard working newspaper people.
It’s a lot to pay for birdcage liner; a roll of paper towels will do just as well and be a lot cheaper.