Boston Globe Strengthens Rhode Island Coverage

[Fredrick]

I doubt if the Herald is winning. The Globe appears to be the have the most successful in-line, local paper in the country. The Globe claims to have well over 100,000 on-line subscribers at $30 a month. I believe if they are truly getting $30 a month per subscriber I wonder why they continually besiege me with an introductory rate of $4 a month.

Damn, if newspapers truly want to succeed what you do is fly one of the suits to Boston to talk to Globe suits and COPY THEM. 100,000 subscribers digitally??? That means it can be done, suits.

 

[Screwball]

Damn, if newspapers truly want to succeed what you do is fly one of the suits to Boston to talk to Globe suits and COPY THEM. 100,000 subscribers digitally??? That means it can be done, suits.

Which chain do you believe owns the Boston Globe?

 

[Michael_ Gee]

The Herald is not winning against the Globe. When I worked there, if you took a map of the MBTA system and superimposed the two papers' circulations, Herald was on top inside the circle (hardly round, but work with me) of the subway lines and the Globe murdered us wherever home delivery was king. Now that looking at phones has replaced print tabloids as subway reading, the Herald is barely hanging on. Sports is still a fair fight, but the rest of the paper is almost nonexistent in any form.

 

[terrier]

Knowing two of the three people the Globe has hired for R.I. (and a fan of the third's work), it's in good hands.