[1] The Boston Courant announced its closure in February 2016 after losing a wrongful termination lawsuit.
[2][3] In April 2016, the former publisher debuted the Boston Guardian, with similar editorial content and neighborhood coverage.
[4] Publisher David Jacobs created the Boston Courant (as the Back Bay Courant—the newspaper later expanded its coverage to include the South End, Bay Village, Fenway, and Beacon Hill) in 1995, with his wife Genevieve Tracy as associate editor.
In 2004, the publisher, David Jacobs, paid a web designer $50,000 to put the newspaper online, but the site never launched due to the lack of a profitable business plan.
Jacobs believed that if the Courant had a website some of the readers would abandon the print format, crippling profitable advertising sales.