Media Moves

Report: Boston Globe to lay off 30 workers

January 19, 2023

Posted by Mariam Ahmed

The Boston Business Journal is reporting that the Boston Globe plans to lay off 30 workers at its Taunton print facility, opened in 2017, after losing a longstanding contract to print local copies of The New York Times.

The Boston Globe’s Taunton printing plant.

As per the BBJ, “The loss of the New York Times contract was first reported this weekend by Northeastern University Journalism professor Dan Kennedy. According to that report, posted to his blog, Media Nation, the Times will now be printed at a plant owned by Dow Jones & Co. Inc., the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, in Chicopee.”

To read more in Kennedy’s Media Nation blog, click here.

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