While many Bostonians welcomed a local owner back to The Globe, they also raised Mr. Henry’s potential for conflicts of interest. Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University, said in a phone interview that The Globe still would be responsible for covering Mr. Henry’s Red Sox, city issues related to the Red Sox like […]

Former Globe reporter and now Northeastern University professor Walter Robinson is hopeful Henry can maintain the same excellence of journalism at the Globe that he has brought to his other endeavors, most especially the Red Sox. “My hope, my expectation is that nothing will change, that the paper will continue to do the kind of […]

8. “There is still plenty of peril on the sea.” It seems like something out of a movie: Four masked men armed with shot guns and pistols stick up a tour group of more than 60 cruise passengers and crew viewing a tropical waterfall, then make off into the bushes with money, watches, camera and […]

Northeastern and Boston Ballet no longer want dance and education to exist separately, hoping instead to integrate the two with a little flexibility. They are partners in a novel initiative that allows dancers to earn a college degree while they dance. This first group of 16 dancing students started in May, and dancers have six […]

“Disadvantaged populations need higher-touch services, not self-services,” said Peter Stokes, an expert on education innovation at Northeastern University. Abdoulaye Coulibaly, 26, is an English master’s student at Felix Houphouet Boigny University in the West African nation of Ivory Coast. He does not believe online education can or should replace the classroom. “We’re going to be […]

So far, U.S. courts consistently have rejected arguments that casinos are liable for the behavior of addicted patrons. But some attorneys trying to take on gambling companies say that if behavioral tracking truly can identify potential problem gamblers, the legal tide could turn, similar to the way bar owners have been found partly at fault […]

The speculation had been building since Wednesday, when the Boston Globe reported that Red Sox principal owner John Henry had restructured his bid to buy the paper. It reached a peak on Friday afternoon, when legendary baseball reporter Peter Gammons — himself a Globe alumnus — posted a one-line item on his new website, Gammons Daily: “A source says the New York Times […]

Among those weighing in on the conflict of interest issue was Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University. In a blog item that ran on The Huffington Post, Kennedy wrote, “The real issue is not how The Globe covers the Red Sox as a baseball team but rather how it manages the tricky task of reporting […]

You may have seen earlier this summer a series of maps released by Twitter showing thegeography of different cities as revealed by millions of tweets. Such maps of digital information are compelling for the way they also illustrate concrete infrastructure: the road networks around cities, the public parks inside of them, the clusters of commercial office buildings. If […]

Some companies last for generations after the loss of their founding visionary. And to be sure, examples of successful generational transfers abound, from Ford Motor Corp. to Walmart. But fewer than one in three companies survive through a second generation of leadership and only one in 10 survive through a third generation, according to research by […]

A new job report out today shows teen employment remained stagnant from June to July, and there’s been no increase over last year. Dr. Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, says a big part of the problem is that federal programs supporting summer job programs have disappeared. He says […]

William Dickens, however, is not one of them. “I have a lot of problems with that.” Dickens is a distinguished professor of economics at Northeastern University in Boston, who has written and researched extensively into the causes and effects of unemployment. “Before the recession, (full employment) was typically estimated to be in the range of […]