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A record-setting snowstorm has prompted managers of The Boston Globe to telephone disconnected printing their regular paper for the archetypal clip successful its 153-year-old history.
Snow and winds prevented unit from safely getting to the Globe printing works to people Tuesday's (February 24, 2026) paper, the paper said successful an nonfiction connected its website. Parts of Massachusetts' Bristol County, wherever the Globe's printing property successful Taunton is located, recorded 32 inches (81 centimeters) of snowfall by Monday night, the National Weather Service said.
Readers are overmuch little reliant connected newsprint for their quality successful today's net age. A 2025 survey by the Pew Research Center recovered that lone 7% of U.S. adults often got their quality from printed newspapers oregon magazines. That's compared to 56% who said they often got their quality from a smartphone, machine oregon tablet.
People transverse the thoroughfare during precocious winds and dense snowfall connected February 23, 2026 successful Boston, Massachusetts | Photo Credit: Getty Images via AFP
Tuesday marks the archetypal clip Globe absorption has called disconnected the newspaper's regular accumulation since its 1872 founding. Labor strikes halted printing a fewer times successful the 1950s and ’60s.
The Globe said it went to property during different record-setting blizzard astir 5 decades ago, erstwhile it printed a fewer thousands copies of a Feb. 7, 1978, edition. Few papers really made it to readers, however, due to the fact that piles of snowfall prevented transportation trucks from getting farther than a mile oregon 2 from its building.
Monday's blizzard acceptable snowfall records successful adjacent Rhode Island, wherever the T.F. Green International Airport successful Warwick received astir 38 inches (96.5 centimeters) to interruption a 1978 record.
The Globe said people subscribers volition get Tuesday’s insubstantial delivered connected Wednesday.
