Boston Globe
Reporter
Elizabeth Neuffer was killed in 2003 while in Iraq, and
Anthony Shadid was seriously wounded in the West Bank in 2002. "Our reporters took enormous risks for many years to try and cover the world for our readers," says Globe foreign editor
James F. Smith. The Globe's decision to close its foreign bureaus "is part of the diminishing ambition on the part of American newspapers," says
Tom Rosenstiel. "For 150 years you could measure the quality of a newspaper by how many bureaus it had and how broad its sweep was, not how many city council meetings it covered."
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The closures will save the company more than $1M annually (WSJ)
