Boston Newspapers

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• Date: Feb 4,2008

• Boston Globe - The Boston Globe (and Boston Sunday Globe) is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts. Owned by The New York Times Company, the broadsheet Globe’s local print rival is the tabloid Boston Herald. Today, The Globe now hosts 28 blogs covering a variety of topics including Boston sports, local politics and a blog made up of posts from the paper’s opinion writers.

Regular Features

Editor’s Notes: Notes written by Doug Most that are relative to one of the features in that week’s magazine.
Letters: Reader’s correspondence
The Big Deal: A profiling of a transaction that recently took place
Pierced: A column by Charlie Pierce
Tails From the City: Heartwarming stories from Boston and elsewhere
Miss Conduct: An advice column focusing mainly on good manners and properness.
The Globe Puzzle: A crossword puzzle
Coupling: Essay about social chemistry. Usually pertaining to someone’s love-life.

• Boston Herald - The Boston Herald is a tabloid-format daily newspaper, the smaller of the two big dailies in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. In comparison with its rival, The Boston Globe, the Herald is noted for aggressive coverage of state and local politics, focus on the city of Boston (rather than the metropolitan region) and its conservative editorial page and news columnists.Owned since 1994 by Patrick J. Purcell, a former News Corporation executive, the Herald is the largest independently owned newspaper in New England.

Regular Features 

Howie Carr writes extensively on local politics and is a frequent TV commentator.
Margery Eagan and Peter Gelzinis are longtime metro columnists, as is Joe Fitzgerald, who was formerly a sports columnist.
Gerry Callahan is a sports columnist and talk show host for WEEI.
Steve Buckley is a longtime sports columnist and frequent co-host on WEEI.
Tony Massarotti is a baseball columnist and frequent co-host on WEEI.
Dave Wedge is a political columnist, longtime reporter and frequent TV and radio commentator.