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

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.

That’s the fallout after the Globe’s Newspaper Guild rejected management’s previous offer, which would have involved an 8.4 percent pay cut, which was made at the behest of the New York Times (NYT), which owns the Globe.

The Times had previously said that it needed to cut the Globe’s costs by $20 million or it would fold the paper, because it was on track to lose $85 million this year. The new cuts, announced today, will get the paper to its cost-cutting goal, so everything’s cool. For now.

Here’s Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis’ statement, via…the Boston Globe:

“Because we have achieved the $20 million in savings we needed, we do not foresee closure at this time and are focused on executing the Globe’s turnaround plan.”

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Another gadget you don’t really need. Will not work once you get it home. New model out in 4 weeks. Battery life is too short to be of any use.

— From the fact sheet for a fake product entitled Useless Plasticbox 1.2 (an actual empty plastic box) placed in L.A.-area Best Buy stores by an artist called Plastic Jesus