{"id":62169,"date":"2016-01-02T22:11:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T04:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/?p=62169"},"modified":"2020-09-21T13:33:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:33:58","slug":"boston-globe-reporters-to-personally-deliver-papers-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/boston-globe-reporters-to-personally-deliver-papers-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe reporters to personally deliver papers on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62170 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/The-Boston-Globe.jpg\" alt=\"The Boston Globe\" width=\"1000\" height=\"705\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/The-Boston-Globe.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/The-Boston-Globe-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/The-Boston-Globe-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/The-Boston-Globe-600x423.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/705;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The person delivering your Sunday edition of the Boston Globe might very well be the person who wrote one of the very same paper&#8217;s news stories.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last week the Boston Globe has been hit with major delivery problems which have apparently angered the paper&#8217;s journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Writers and editors at the paper are now planning to personally pitch in to help with Sunday&#8217;s deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a Globe employee. I&#8217;m also a reader angry with 0 papers at home this week,&#8221; NHL beat reporter Fluto Shinzawa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlobeFluto\/status\/683443707018895360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> tweeted. <\/a>&#8220;I&#8217;ll be out helping to get you Sunday&#8217;s Globe. Stay with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Employees who work on the business side of the paper are also pitching in. More than 100 employees are volunteering, according to the Globe.<\/p>\n<p>Globe crime reporter Evan Allen joked that she was going to &#8220;start warming up my throwing arm in preparation for all the Boston Globe Sunday papers I&#8217;ll be slinging tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gonna start warming up my throwing arm in preparation for all the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BostonGlobe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BostonGlobe<\/a> Sunday papers I&#39;ll be slinging tonight<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Evan Allen (@EvanMAllen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvanMAllen\/status\/683435721898721283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Milton Valencia even picked out special gloves for the occasion:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BostonGlobe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BostonGlobe<\/a> delivery partner <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiltonValencia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MiltonValencia<\/a> has special gloves for handling stacks of newspapers. We&#39;re ready! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vJ5ao1gwjQ\">pic.twitter.com\/vJ5ao1gwjQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Evan Allen (@EvanMAllen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvanMAllen\/status\/683460239404830721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2015\/12\/30\/globe\/RWUwfrdehqr7YzsKTAOOZK\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Globe reported <\/a>that the trouble started on Monday when the company switched to &#8220;a new delivery company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a story on Thursday, the Globe said &#8220;missing papers&#8221; across the local area &#8220;prompted an outcry from readers, who vented on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/media-consumption-during-coronavirus-quarantine\/\">social media<\/a> and overwhelmed the Globe&#8217;s phone system with complaints.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Delivery problems were so widespread that phone systems at The Boston Globe crashed as customer services representatives attempted to answer calls from angry customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The person delivering your Sunday edition of the Boston Globe might very well be the person who wrote one of the very same paper&#8217;s news stories. Over the last week the Boston Globe has been hit with major delivery problems which have apparently angered the paper&#8217;s journalists. Writers and editors at the paper are now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":62170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,54],"tags":[9298,9394,9393],"class_list":{"0":"post-62169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-media","9":"tag-newspaper","10":"tag-newspaper-reporting","11":"tag-the-boston-globe"},"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71393,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62169\/revisions\/71393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}