Politics - The Boston Globe (2024)

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How many priests did The Boston Globe expose? ›

In early 2002, The Boston Globe published results of an investigation that led to the criminal prosecutions of five Roman Catholic priests and thrust the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy into the national spotlight. Another accused priest who was involved in the Spotlight scandal also pleaded guilty.

John W. Henry is the publisher and owner of The Boston Globe. He purchased the Globe and its affiliated businesses in 2013, becoming only the third owner in the history of the newspaper, the largest in New England.

The Boston Globe, daily newspaper published in Boston, the city's largest and one of the most influential newspapers in the United States.

In 1993, the Taylor family negotiated the sale of Affiliated Publications, including the Boston Globe, to the New York Times Company for $1.1 billion and a promise that the Globe would retain its editorial independence.

1. Child sex abuse in Pennsylvania. In 2018, a Pennsylvania grand jury issued a 900-page report detailing 70 years of child sex abuse by the Catholic Church in the state. The report found 300 priests involved in the sexual abuse of more than 1,000 identifiable victims and likely many more that went unreported.

In total, the worldwide percentage of Catholics is 17.67 % of the global population.

The Globe has a long tradition of being a progressive institution, and especially on social issues.

"The Boston Globe, purchased by John W. Henry [...] has been profitable for years, according to a person familiar with the company's finances. Those profits have been reinvested in The Globe, the person said."

After acquiring a fortune in the early 1980s from his trading firm J.W. Henry & Co., John Henry started building a sports empire. Henry and his partner Tom Werner bought the Boston Red Sox in 2002 for $380 million and delivered the Sox' first World Series win in 86 years in 2004.

The Taylor family owned the Globe until its 1993 purchase by The New York Times Co. It's currently owned by John Henry, principal owner of the Boston Red Sox. With afternoon as well as morning editions, newspapers were knit into the daily fabric of urban life.

Is the Boston Herald a conservative publication? ›

About Boston Herald's Bias Rating

Boston Herald is a news media source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Lean Right.

The BostonGlobe.com digital subscription rate is currently $6.93 a week, billed every four weeks for a total of $27.72. New subscribers are eligible for an introductory rate. For our current introductory offers please click here.

For more than a century, the Boston Globe has been Boston's newspaper of record and the largest paper in New England. Tom Winship and the writing staff celebrate the Globe's first Pulitzer Prize, 1966.

Linda Henry is the co-owner of Boston Globe Media and serves as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to becoming CEO in 2020, Linda served as Managing Director at the Globe and as co-founder of HUBweek, a partnership with Harvard, MIT, MGH, and The Globe.

Henry, principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and other sports enterprises, agreed in August to buy the Globe, its websites and affiliated news businesses, and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette for $70 million in cash. He had emerged as the winner in a bidding process that involved a half-dozen potential buyers.

Richard Sipe, a former priest who worked to rehabilitate sexually abusive priests, tells them that his studies suggest that there are approximately 90 abusive priests in Boston (6% of priests). Through their research, the team develops a list of 87 names and finds victims to back up their suspicions.

Mark Honigsbaum of The Guardian wrote in 2006 that, "despite the National Review Board's own estimates that there have been some 5,000 abusive priests in the US, to date 150 have been successfully prosecuted." Some critics of the church, such as Patrick Wall, attribute this to a lack of cooperation from the church.

Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests for child abuse.

The panels depict the former convent of the Carmelites (where 163 were killed) and the prison known as the Force, which had formerly been used to incarcerate prostitutes, where approximately 300 defrocked clergy were executed.