Saturday, October 23, 2010

Chris Harte advising group seeking to buy Boston Globe


Former Beacon Journal publisher Chris Harte is among the top newspaper advisers to a Massachusetts businessman who intends to try to buy the Boston Globe.

Harte, also former publisher of the Minneapolis Star Tribute and Portland (Maine) Press Herald, has been advising Aaron Kushner, an Internet entrepreneur who is developing plans to make an offer to buy the Globe from the New York Times, its owner since 1993.

“Aaron has some ideas that are brand new to the industry and have a huge amount of potential,’’ Harte said in a Globe article today. “I was skeptical when I met with him and some of his investors, but these are people that can easily make this happen.’’

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