Boston Globe reporters deliver Sunday papers themselves amid distribution crisis

Boston Globe editors and reporters will be helping deliver newspapers early Sunday morning following delivery problems.

Heartwarming footage shows editor Mark Morrow delivering a copy of the paper to an elderly reader, who says “are you really?” in surprise when she is told who the man is.

CAMBRIDGE, MA – JANUARY 3: Boston Globe photographer Jessica Rinaldi, left, and director of photography Bill Greene, right, worked in the pre-dawn hours to deliver the Boston Globe in Cambridge, Mass. on Sunday morning, January 3, 2016.

More than 200 staff members from the Globe stuffed plastic bags full with their newspapers and delivered them straight to their reader’s door steps.

So the employees took is upon themselves to make sure their readers got the product.

The extraordinary move comes after a week of tumult at the paper after it switched delivery companies, resulting in outcry from thousands of subscribers who failed to receive their daily papers. And it “looks like the offer has been accepted”, technology reporter Hiawatha Bray told CNNMoney Saturday evening.

The Boston Globe’s delivery service wasn’t getting papers to readers on time, or in some cases, at all.

The paper recently switched distribution companies, but its new distributor couldn’t handle the large number of deliveries.

Another editor, Steven Wilmsen, said an “army” of journalists was volunteering.

“Many readers got busy signals”, Bray added.

Felicia Gans, a metro reporter, said the scores of newsroom volunteers proved that there is “so much love for Boston Globe”.

One Boston Globe sports reporter even voiced his own frustration, tweeting: “I’m a Globe employee”.

“Boston Globe reporters will soon be at your doorstep…to deliver your newspaper”.