So speculates the Boston Business Journal, which throws out a few other names as possible buyers--including Herald owner Pat Purcell and Jack Connors, chair of Partners HealthCare's board of trustees.

A week or two ago, after hearing that Connors was still interested in the paper, I called his office to see if the rumor was legit.

Quick: guess which Boston paper is marking Barack Obama's win with a 32-page glossy publication, titled "Boston Celebrates Barack Obama: Reflections on a man, his life and our times," on sale tomorrow for just $2.99?

No, it's not the Boston Globe. It is, instead, the Boston Herald--which, in endorsing McCain last October, suggested that it would be a bad idea to put a "naif in the Oval Office."

That's the most important point of this Globe business update. If Connors is telling the truth, then the Financial Times got it wrong.

The second most important point is Herald publisher Pat Purcell's statement that he, too, is uninterested in the Globe.

Please note that multiple versions of the FT story have appeared in the past few days.

Might Boston be in for a colossal media makeover? So suggests the Financial Times:

The New York Times is aggressively courting buyers for its stake in the Boston Red Sox baseball team and potentially the Boston Globe newspaper in a transaction that could attract bids worth $200m-$225m, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The Boston Herald reports that owner/publisher Pat Purcell has a new gig as executive chairman of the News Corp.-owned Ottaway Newspapers. This is a big job; in the words of the Herald's Frank Quaratiello, Purcell "will be responsible for the eight Ottaway daily newspapers, 15 weekly newspapers, magazines and Internet sites."