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The Boston Globe was founded in 1872 by six Boston businessmen who jointly invested $150,000. Notable founders included Eben Dyer Jordan of the Jordan Marsh department store and Cyrus Wakefield of the Wakefield Rattan Company. The first issue was published on the 4th of March, 1872, and sold for four cents.
The New York Times Company purchased The Boston Globe in 1993 for $1.1 billion, making it one of the most expensive print acquisitions in American history. Twenty years later, John W. Henry bought the paper from The New York Times Company for just $70 million, a loss of more than 90% of the original purchase price.
The Boston Globe has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes. These include prizes for public service, national reporting, investigative reporting, editorial cartooning, commentary, criticism, and photography, spanning from 1966 through 2021.
Reporters Michael Rezendes, Matt Carroll, Sacha Pfeiffer, and Walter Robinson, along with editor Ben Bradlee Jr., investigated and exposed systematic sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests between 2001 and 2003, with a focus on Massachusetts churches. The Globe's entire staff received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for this work, which was later dramatized in the 2015 Academy Award-winning film Spotlight.
Brian McGrory has been the editor of The Boston Globe since January 2026. McGrory previously served as editor from 2012 to 2023 before Nancy Barnes held the role from 2023 to 2025.
The Boston Globe is owned by John W. Henry, the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool F.C. Henry purchased the paper on the 24th of October, 2013, for $70 million from The New York Times Company, renaming the venture Boston Globe Media.