[personal profile] ron_newman posting in [community profile] davis_square
Yesterday's Boston Globe City Weekly didn't give any indication of being the last issue, other than Ellen Steinbaum announcing her final "City Type" column on page 7. Page 2 still invites people to send e-mail to ciweek@globe.com and globewatch@globe.com, and page 9 still asks people to send Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline news items to various reporters.

This Globe page of zone maps for advertisers has one map for "through April 1", and another "effective April 2". So it looks like City Weekly and Globe NorthWest will publish for one more week. After that, Somerville moves into the North Zone, Brookline to the West Zone, and Cambridge to the No Zone, as in "No more local news for you."

The good news for Somerville is that Globe North comes out twice a week, on Thursdays and Sundays, and that we share it with Medford and Arlington. The bad news is that we also share the zone with about 100 other towns stretching all the way to the New Hampshire-Maine border. How much coverage will we still get?

Date: 2009-03-23 12:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] concrete.livejournal.com
Newspapers diluting themselves to extinction.

Date: 2009-03-23 12:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thetathx1138.livejournal.com
Don't worry, soon nobody will get any coverage from the Globe. It's losing $1 million a week and the New York Times is going to have to make some drastic cuts.

On the negative side, the Herald is never going to let us hear the end of it.

Date: 2009-03-23 01:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lizzielizzie.livejournal.com
But, will the Herald headline be: Nah nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye!

Date: 2009-03-23 01:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thetathx1138.livejournal.com
"Globe No Longer Spans World"

Date: 2009-03-23 02:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hrafn.livejournal.com
I'd buy that copy!

Date: 2009-03-23 01:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thetathx1138.livejournal.com
Because they're run by a neoconservative scum-sucking idiot?

Date: 2009-03-23 02:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fefie.livejournal.com
"How much coverage will we still get?"

In the current City Weekly (which covers Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline) Somerville gets one or two feature articles plus a few items in "News in Brief". I'd assume that the coverage Somerville will get next to nil coverage after the change to a section that covers 100 cities & towns.

I don't read City Weekly just for Somerville coverage. Issues of urban life in Boston neighborhoods and Cambridge often pertain to Somerville too. It's a real shame that the Globe is getting rid of this unique section of the paper.

Date: 2009-03-25 12:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nadie00.livejournal.com
I second that opinion.

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