Boston Marathon Explosion Traffic Downs Boston Globe Website
The two bomb blasts that has so-far killed two and injured at least 28 at the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday afternoon caused a traffic explosion that downed the Boston Globe‘s paywalled site.
Editors rerouted the BostonGlobe.com URL to a live blog on New England Media Group’s free site, Boston.com, and asked staffers to send all reports to a singular email account to consolidate coverage.
“We understand this is not the usual practice,” Ron Agrella, the editor of Boston.com,
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