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Boston Globe
Sign in to saveAlso known as The Boston Globe, Boston Daily Globe, The Boston Daily Globe, The Globe, bostonglobe.com
American daily newspaper
Key facts
- Type
- Daily newspaper
- Format
- Broadsheet
- Owner s
- Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC
- Publisher
- John W. Henry
- Editor
- Brian McGrory
- Opinion editor
- James Dao
- Founded
- March 4, 1872 ; 154 years ago ( 1872-03-04 )
- Headquarters
- Exchange Place , Boston , Massachusetts, U.S.
- Country
- United States
- Circulation
- 45,600 average print circulation , 257,211 digital subscribers.
- Issn
- 0743-1791
- Website
- bostonglobe.com
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nfh&jn=Boston+Globe+(MA)&site=ehost-live&scope=site
- Image
- 2009 BostonGlobe building Massachusetts 3293246496.jpg
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- Commons category
- The Boston Globe
- title
- The Boston Daily Globe
- inception
- 1872-03-04
- social media followers
- 777243
- native label
- The Boston Globe
- start time
- 1872-00-00
- Commons Institution page
- Boston Globe
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The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe is the oldest and largest daily newspaper in Boston and tenth-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States of America as of 2023.
Founded in 1872 by six area businessmen before being sold to the Globe's early business manager and publisher, Charles H. Taylor and his family. After being privately held until 1973, it was sold to The New York Times in 1993 for $1.1 billion, making it one of the most expensive print purchases in United States history. The newspaper was purchased in 2013 by Boston Red Sox and Liverpool F.C. owner John W. Henry for $70 million from the New York Times Company, having lost over 90% of its value in 20 years. The chief print rival of The Boston Globe is the Boston Herald, whose circulation is smaller and is shrinking faster.