{"id":3384,"date":"2009-10-08T16:58:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T20:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2009-11-05T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T16:21:42","slug":"boston-globe-bidding-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/10\/08\/boston-globe-bidding-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe bidding deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3656\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/10\/bg-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Boston Globe Future\" width=\"322\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/10\/bg-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/10\/bg.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/>With the bidding deadline for the <em>Boston Globe<\/em> here, some\u00a0<a title=\"question\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/business\/media\/view.bg?articleid=1203102&amp;srvc=business&amp;position=2\" target=\"_blank\">question<\/a> if the two potential buyers &#8211; the California investment firm Platinum Equity, and the Taylor family &#8211; can handle the reported $115 milion in pension liabilities.\u00a0 Journalism Professor <a title=\"Fred Bayles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/fred_bayles.html\" target=\"_self\">Fred Bayles<\/a>, a former AP and <em>USA Today<\/em> reporter and long-time <em>Globe<\/em> watcher, says this all reflects the general state of the newspaper industry.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Newspapers still can make money, especially if they trim off the excesses in staff and equipment acquired during the rock \u2018n\u2019 roll years. The Globe could be one of them if the pension and other obligations can be dealt with.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Fred Bayles, 617-353-7736, <a href=\"mailto:fbayles@bu.edu\">fbayles@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the bidding deadline for the Boston Globe here, some\u00a0question if the two potential buyers &#8211; the California investment firm Platinum Equity, and the Taylor family &#8211; can handle the reported $115 milion in pension liabilities.\u00a0 Journalism Professor Fred Bayles, a former AP and USA Today reporter and long-time Globe watcher, says this all reflects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[850,1967,1126,1966],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}