HX’s Boston Paper Going Down?
Uh-oh! HX Media’s in an awfully bad way. The New York-based company tried expanding their reach last year when they took over Boston’s In Newsweekly, now called the New England Blade. The move was definitely a gamble – and doesn’t seem to be paying off.
Rumor has it that the paper has received an eviction notice for not paying their rent, the staff has been asked not to cash their paychecks and distributors haven’t been paid in two months. HX founder Matthew Bank reportedly flew up there recently to reassure staffers that their jobs are safe. We wonder if those people remember April’s staff shake-up.
HX Media doesn’t have the best track record in pioneering into new territories – HX Philadelphia folded earlier this year.
No surprise here. They took a newspaper that been at the top of its form for almost 2 decades, fired the workers who made it that way, then CHANGED THE NAME, for whatever dumb-ass reason, and now, they must have oh maybe two or three people who even bother to pick it up. Get out of town, guys. No one cares.
The New England Blade is completely worthless.
Good riddance to bad garbage.
the NYC Blade used to be “must reading” every friday, since HX took over, content has been cut and it only features stories recycled off webpages.
If a decent gay NYC nightlife webpage existed, HX wouldn’t be worth reading either.
Just FYI:
Most New York Blade articles are not recycled. Yes, all the print stories do appear on our web site (the same can be said of most any publication), and yes, we do pick up the ocassional national piece from The Washington Blade (as any newspaper with a DC affiliate would do). But a large percent of our articles are assigned, reported and written by NY Blade staff and free-lancers.
New York Blade was never “must reading” from the HX losers. I prefer “Gay City News” with all their typos, bad dated fonts and Kelli Jean Cogswell (who lives in France and pretends to know more than us locals) The New York Blade gets Soy Ink on my cat’s ass and HX won’t level my barstool as good as Next Mag! New York Gays deserve better than all of these publications. Go! Mag seems the best but we’re not ALL lesbians, except the straight girls when they are drunk on Cosmos!
As sad as it is when anyone loses their jobs… whatever, fuck the whole HX family that shit is a steaming pile and always has been.
Just came across this…doesn’t surprise me in the least. Matthew Bank is a cheap mutha fucker who probably still hasn’t turned on the heat in the offices. He has that heft rent to pay over in the Onyx Building.
I still can’t believe people still advertise in that pathetic waste of paper. Well, those that actually pay. 75% of the companies in there bartered a service with the Bank or with his puppet Gary!!