Acting as paper-boys, even Pulitzer prize-winning journalists took to the streets to hand-deliver the daily.
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On Monday, several Globe truck drivers who typically bring bundles of papers to retail shops were called in to deliver the Globe directly to subscribers who hadn’t received their papers.
“It was hard to listen to people saying they were subscribers for 30 years and were not getting their paper”, said Allen.
So, on Sunday, over 100 Globe reporters and staffers delivered it themselves.
So late on Saturday and early Sunday, those newsroom employees and others at the paper put in some extra time to help the delivery crews ensure subscribers received their Sunday editions. “So those of us who produce the newspaper were prevailed upon to deliver it”. “I think it’s going to improve each week”.
They gave Cullen and two women helpers 273 papers and a delivery route “that appeared to have been prepared by someone under the influence of methamphetamine”.
Globe workers at a Newton distribution center raised doubts about the assertion that ACI had hired roughly 475 of more than 530 needed drivers.
“It’s been eight days”, said Scurlock. However, the switch to ACI Media Group has disrupted service to about 10 percent of Boston Globe subscribers, the Globe reported.
“We apologize for the disruption”, Sheehan had said in an interview last week.
“Instead, they want me to go open my garage door every day with hope and expectations but instead experience yet another moment of disappointment”, he wrote in an email message. Dozens from the editorial staff had hopped in their vehicles to deliver the newspaper.
The newspaper switched to a new delivery company on December 28, and readers immediately began to report issues receiving their papers.
PCF continues to deliver the Globe in some areas farther from Boston, and delivers other publications within the I-495 belt.
The volunteer effort generated a burst of positive P.R. for the Globe.
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Majority of the reporters who volunteered came back with a new found respect for the humble paper boy, whose job may look simple, but certainly isn’t. She joins Here & Now’s Robin Young to discuss the unusual reporter deliveries, and the future of the paper.
