Boston Globe postpones print edition for first time, due to blizzard

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A record-setting snowstorm has prompted managers of The Boston Globe to postpone the printing of their regular paper for the archetypal clip successful its history.

"For much than 153 years, the property workers of The Boston Globe person flooded the elements, method snafus, and planetary pandemics to people a regular newspaper," the insubstantial said in an nonfiction connected its website. "But successful an unprecedented decision, executives determined that the conditions during Monday's blizzard made it intolerable to people and present a insubstantial Tuesday morning."

The Globe said people subscribers volition get Tuesday's insubstantial delivered connected Wednesday on with Wednesday's edition.

"We don't instrumentality the determination lightly," the nonfiction quotes Boston Globe Media Vice President of Print Operations Josh Russell arsenic saying. "We're not assured that adjacent if we got a unit successful tonight, that we could get the papers connected our trucks safely. We weren't assured that that past mile would beryllium doable."

The tempest besides chopped profoundly into Monday's deliveries: Only 25 percent of papers reached subscribers, the Globe said.

Snow and winds prevented unit from safely getting to the Globe printing works to people Tuesday's paper, the paper said successful the article. Parts of Massachusetts' Bristol County, wherever the Globe's printing property successful Taunton is located, had recorded 32 inches of snowfall by Monday night, the National Weather Service said.

Readers are overmuch little reliant connected newsprint for their quality successful today's net age. A 2025 survey by the Pew Research Center recovered that lone 7% of U.S. adults often got their quality from printed newspapers oregon magazines. That's compared to 56% who said they often got their quality from a smartphone, machine oregon tablet.

Tuesday marks the archetypal clip Globe absorption has called disconnected the newspaper's regular accumulation since its 1872 founding. Labor strikes halted printing a fewer times successful the 1950s and '60s.

The Globe said it went to property during different record-setting blizzard astir 5 decades ago, erstwhile it printed a fewer thousands copies of a Feb. 7, 1978, edition. Few papers really made it to readers, however, due to the fact that piles of snowfall prevented transportation trucks from getting farther than a mile oregon 2 from its building.

Monday's blizzard acceptable snowfall records successful adjacent Rhode Island, wherever the T.F. Green International Airport successful Warwick received astir 38 inches, breaking a 1978 record.

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