Politicians urge NYTCO to avoid cuts at Boston Globe

Steve Safran October 21st, 2006

A collection of Massachusetts politicians has signed a letter urging the Boston Globe’s owner against making further cuts at the newspaper. The Globe’s revenues have been dropping, and cutbacks are likely. The politicians take the Times to task for downsizing the paper since purchasing it in 1993. Reporters at the paper just rejected a contract offer that tied their raises to the newspaper’s revenue - but did not include revenue from the paper’s profitable Boston.com website. (Disclosure: My client, NECN, is an online partner of Boston.com.)