2 posts and columns on Catherine Mathis

New York Times: We Probably Won’t Shutter the Boston Globe

in Media on June 9, 2009 at 12:09 pm PT

Good news, Boston Globe fans: Your paper is going to remain extant. Probably. Bad news, Boston Globe editorial workers: You’re getting a 23 percent pay cut.
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Is The New York Times Selling About.com? No.

in Media on November 3, 2008 at 2:52 pm PT

The New York Times is in lousy shape, so it needs to sell off About.com, the kind-of-portal, kind-of-blog-aggregator it bought from Primedia in 2005. So says Jason Calacanis, whose Mahalo.com is a kind-of-portal, kind of blog-aggregator. Not true, say two people familiar with the Times and About.