Globe (tabloid)
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| Categories | Tabloid |
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| Frequency | Weekly |
| Total circulation (December 2011) |
271,424 |
| Founder | Joe Azaria and John Vader |
| Year founded | 1954 |
| Company | American Media, Inc. |
| Country | USA |
| Based in | Boca Raton, Florida |
| Language | English |
| Website | globemagazine |
| ISSN | 1094-6047 |
Globe is a supermarket tabloid first published North America on November 10, 1954 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as Midnight by Joe Azaria and John Vader and became the chief competitor to the National Enquirer during the 1960s. In 1978 it changed its name to the Midnight Globe after its publisher, Globe Communications, and eventually changed its name to Globe. The newspaper, as well as most of its rivals, is now owned by American Media Inc. and is published out of American Media's headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida. Globe covers a widespread range of topics, including politics, celebrity news, human interest and high-profile crime stories. It recently led the fight to try to save TV's All My Children and One Life to Live.
In mid-November 1995, Globe caused controversy by publishing Tejana singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez's autopsy photos, causing retailers in her home region of South Texas to pull and dispose of that edition of the tabloid. The same pulling occurred in Boulder, Colorado in 1997, when autopsy photos of JonBenét Ramsey were published in the tabloid, though one local retailer retained stock of that edition.
American Media bought parent Globe Communications in 1999.
In 2003, Globe caused controversy by publishing the name of Kobe Bryant's accuser and putting her picture on its cover. Traditionally, media in the United States have refrained from revealing the names of alleged victims of sex crimes. Globe Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Rodack defended the magazine's decision to publish her name in an article for the Poynter Journalism Institute.
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