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The Boston Globe was founded on the 4th of March 1872 by six Boston businessmen who pooled $150,000 to launch the newspaper. Charles H. Taylor transformed the struggling venture into a regional powerhouse after being hired as a temporary business manager in August 1873 and becoming general manager in December 1873.
Thomas Winship ended the practice of signing editorial pages as Uncle Dudley in 1966 after serving as editor since 1965. He transformed The Boston Globe from a mediocre local paper into a regional paper of national distinction and won a dozen Pulitzer Prizes during his tenure.
A team of reporters at The Boston Globe including Michael Rezendes, Matt Carroll, Sacha Pfeiffer, and Walter Robinson began an investigation in 2001 that uncovered the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal in Massachusetts. This work earned the paper a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003 and inspired the 2015 Academy Award-winning film Spotlight.
The New York Times Company purchased The Boston Globe in 1993 for $1.1 billion, marking the end of the Taylor family's 120-year control of the paper. The last Taylor family members had left management by 1999 after the sale.
The Boston Globe launched Boston.com in 1995 as one of the first regional news portals on the World Wide Web and launched a dedicated subscription-based website at bostonglobe.com in 2011. By 2021, the paper had 226,000 digital subscribers among the highest of any metro newspapers in the country.