Susan Labandibar – Activist CEO

Saving the Boston Globe

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I’ve joined a dozen other bloggers in posting this message simultaneously:

We have all read recently about the threat of possible closure faced by the Boston Globe. A number of Boston-based bloggers who care about the continued existence of the Globe have banded together in conducting a blog rally. We are simultaneously posting this paragraph to solicit your ideas of steps the Globe could take to improve its financial picture.

We view the Globe as an important community resource, and we think that lots of people in the region agree and might have creative ideas that might help in this situation. So, here’s your chance. Please don’t write with nasty comments and sarcasm: Use this forum for thoughtful and interesting steps you would recommend to the management that would improve readership, enhance the Globe’s community presence, and make money. Who knows, someone here might come up with an idea that will work, or at least help. Thank you.

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1. My issue with this movement, it assumes the Globe is good enough to be saved in its current state. I posted a How to Really Save The Boston Globe and one of my main points is that the Globe needs to take a hard look in the mirror and return (yes return) to good, local investigative journalism.

   Stop printing high school rumors of vampires, stop covering celebrity gossip, stop printing inane stories about fake iPhone applications. I’m sure they get a lot of traffic to those stories but it damages their brand to the point that it becomes very tough for me to respect their paper in general. The Globe, not the Globe’s customers, need to re-examine what they want to be.

   Do they want to be a magazine printing gossip and other inane banter or do they want to be a newspaper that provides hard hitting journalism. They can only do one.

   

   Adam Pieniazek

   31 May 09 at 9:35 am
2. I read your blog Adam and I agree with most of your Globe-saving ideas. It is hard, though, when you’re facing bankruptcy and layoffs, to do first-rate investigative journalism. There’s got to be a pretty large price tag attached to some of these stories.

   Your blog said that you occasionally write articles for the Dorchester Reporter. I didn’t know they were still around! Back in the 90’s I wrote a computer column for them, and I used to advertise with them as well.

   

   Susan Labandibar

   31 May 09 at 9:53 pm

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