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Article: A familiar name, an interrupted record ; Taylor is drawing on his pedigree and a modern pitch; Bidding for the Globe
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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Second in a two-part series about bidders for The Boston Globe.
Stephen Taylor did not want to sell the newspaper his family had
run for more than a century.
At the time of the 1993 sale to The New York Times Co., he was 42
years old and in charge of The Boston Globe's technology, presses,
and buildings. Taylor figured he would be part of a new generation
to lead New England's largest daily paper, with his cousin Benjamin
next in line to run the Globe. And he was in the thick of his
biggest project yet - launching the paper's website, Boston.com, at
a time when most people in the industry failed to see the Internet's
potential.
Both men lobbied top executives to keep the paper in the ...