Boston Globe readers will have to wait an extra day for their Tuesday newspaper.
The company said on Monday night that the blizzard that has blanketed much of New England with more than two feet of snow had made it too treacherous for print workers to make it to the printing press, which is about 35 miles south of Boston in Taunton, Mass.
The Globe, which usually prints seven days a week, will instead deliver the Tuesday edition to subscribers on Wednesday, along with Wednesday’s paper.
Boston Globe Media’s vice president of print operations, Josh Russell, told The Globe’s reporter that the decision was not made lightly.
“We’re not confident that even if we got a crew in tonight, that we could get the papers on our trucks safely,” he said.
It is exceedingly rare for newspapers to pause printing, and The Globe reported that it was the first time in its 154-year history that management had done so, reflecting the severity of the week’s weather conditions. There have been times The New York Times has not printed, though all were because of labor strikes.
Katie Robertson covers the media industry for The Times. Email: [email protected]
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