The Boston Globe yesterday also declined the print the Boston Herald. Herald is moving ahead with laying off 130 workers at their printing plant and outsourcing it to Dow Jones in Springfield, and another Massachusetts newspaper I can’t remember. One of the companies has the Saturday–Thursday press run, and the other will print Fridays.

The Globe’s slave cabin boy (I’m not bitter…) the Telegram & Gazette already prints four other newspapers besides itself — two Massachusetts dailies, plus two New York dailies for distribution in New England and upstate New York.

I have a really informed guess that the Globe couldn’t print the Herald on the T&G presses due to capacity issues…printing five daily newspapers is enough of a challenge. But they would have the spare capacity on their own presses as the Globe circulation continues to circle the drain — and I’d bet dollars to donuts they were asking their unions for contract concessions in exchange for giving their shops more work.

My experiences are chronicled at the address below, if you have interest:

http://forum.gaurc.us/index.php?topic=119.0