The Boston Courant

The Boston Courant is a weekly newspaper in Boston, whose coverage focuses on issues of local interest to the Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Downtown Crossing, Fenway and South End neighborhoods.

Establishment

Publisher David Jacobs created the Boston Courant (as the Back Bay Courant--the newspaper later expanded its coverage to include the South End, Fenway, and Beacon Hill) in 1995, with his wife Genvieve Tracy, as Associate Editor. In a Boston Globe article,^[1] Jacobs stated that the Courant experienced double-digit growth from 2008 to 2009. He reported the Courant's circulation as 55,000.

Sections

The paper introduced a real estate section in 2008, named Open House. Later re-named the Real Estate Guide, the section has featured editorial copy and advertisements from Boston real estate agents as well as maps of upcoming open houses.

Online

The Boston Courant does not maintain a website.

References

1. ^ Diaz, Johnny, "The Weekly Battle: Alternative papers, like big dailies, cut back as ad sales slip", The Boston Globe, March 4, 2009

Further reading

• Whitters, James, "A newspaper rivalry unfolds: Boston Courant invading turf of South End News", The Boston Globe, April 9, 2006 (Retrieved on April 13, 2009). Information about the original name of the newspaper and about its increase in scope can be found here.