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Boston Globe intern warned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev about media attention

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:20:00 +0000

Zolan Kanno-Youngs, an intern at the Boston Globe, has appeared in a video for the newspaper describing his relationship with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the bombings of the Boston Marathon.

Kanno-Youngs, who attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School with Tsarnaev in the class of 2011, said that he'd seen the photo of the suspect circulated by the FBI, but "even if the thought crossed my mind, it didn't ring an alarm. It was too blurry, I thought it could never be."

The Globe intern said that Tsarnaev never discussed politics, and that he was "one of the most peaceful religious people I know." Kanno-Youngs even had reached out to warn Tsarnaev after seeing the FBI photos "just to say be careful because these people might try and think it was you."

“And then the bomb went off”: Boston columnists react to Marathon explosions

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:55:00 +0000

Boston has a tradition of great city columnists. Here's a sampling of what some of them are writing in today's editions of the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald.

Kevin Cullen in The Boston Globe

This is how bad this is. I went out Monday night and bumped into some firefighters I know. They said one of the dead was an 8-year-old boy from Dorchester who had gone out to hug his dad after he crossed the finish line. The dad walked on; the boy went back to the sidewalk to join his mom and his little sister. And then the bomb went off. The boy was killed. His sister’s leg was blown off. His mother was badly injured. That’s just one family, one story.

Gerry Callahan in The Boston Herald

Story of Boston Globe team who exposed sex abuse in Catholic Church hits big screen

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:36:00 +0000

Dreamworks has bought life rights to the story of the Boston Globe's Spotlight Team, who in 2003 won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for exposing sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. "The Boston Globe's coverage of the Catholic priest scandal opened the door to a bigger story that had worldwide ramifications," said DreamWorks president Holly Bario.

From the Hollywood Reporter:

Life rights have been acquired to the Boston Globe's "Spotlight Team" of reporters and editors, including then-Globe editor Marty Baron, special projects editor Ben Bradlee Jr., Spotlight Team editor Walter "Robby" Robinson and reporters Michael Rezendes, Sacha Pfeiffer and Matt Carroll.

The team spent a year interviewing victims and reviewing thousands of pages of documents and discovered years of cover-up by Church leadership. Their reporting eventually led to the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law, who had hidden years of serial abuse by other priests and opened the floodgates to other revelations of molestation and cover-ups around the world that still reverberate today.

Tom McCarthy will direct and co-write the script with Josh Singer, THR reports. Boston Magazine already has some casting suggestions for the Globe reporters.

New York Times Company again prepares to sell Boston Globe

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:32:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The New York Times Co. said Wednesday that it is putting The Boston Globe and its related assets up for sale four years after it called off a previous attempt to sell the newspaper.

Mark Thompson, the Times' chief executive, said in a statement a sale would be in the best long-term interests of both properties, "given the differences between these businesses and The New York Times."

Thompson said the sale would help the company concentrate its attention and investments on The New York Times' brand.

The newspapers' differences are stark. The Times has a national - even international - audience, and has been adding digital subscribers at a rapid clip. Last year, it launched a Chinese-language website and has a loyal, growing subscriber base in the U.S.

Meanwhile, the Globe is focused on its readers in the New England region, and while its digital subscriptions have been increasing, analysts believe they aren't rising fast enough to be meaningful. The Globe had 28,000 digital subscribers at the end of 2012, up 8 percent from three months earlier.

In comparison, the Times and International Herald Tribune had 640,000 paying subscribers online, up 13 percent over three months.

Court to unseal Romney divorce testimony

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:21:00 +0000

A judge has granted the Boston Globe access to sealed testimony that Mitt Romney gave in his friend's 1991 divorce case. The case involves the divorce of Staples founder Tom Stemberg, who has been a Romney surrogate this campaign cycle, and his now-ex-wife Maureen Sullivan Stemberg.

From the Globe's report from before the hearing:

"All documents in the divorce case were impounded, and all parties signed a confidentiality agreement that prevents them from discussing details of the case with the press. The Globe is seeking only Romney’s testimony, which he delivered in June 1991.

At the time of the divorce, Romney was the owner and chief executive of Bain Capital, a private equity firm that invested $650,000 in Staples to help the office supply company open its first store in Brighton in 1986. In total, Bain Capital invested about $2.5 million in Staples and reaped a $13 million profit when the company went public in 1989. Romney sat on the Staples board of directors."

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Boston Globe intern warned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev about media attention

“And then the bomb went off”: Boston columnists react to Marathon explosions

Story of Boston Globe team who exposed sex abuse in Catholic Church hits big screen

New York Times Company again prepares to sell Boston Globe

Court to unseal Romney divorce testimony