Globe is a
supermarket tabloid first published North America on November 10, 1954 in
Montreal, Canada as
Midnight by Joe Azaria and John Vader and became the chief competitor to the
National Enquirer during the 1960s. In 1978 it changed its name to the
Midnight Globe after its publisher, Globe Communications, and eventually changed its name to
Globe. The newspaper, as well as most of its rivals, is now owned by
American Media Inc. and is published out of American Media's headquarters in
Boca Raton, Florida.
Globe covers a widespread range of topics, including politics, celebrity news, human interest and high-profile crime stories. It recently led the fight to try to save TV's
All My Children and
One Life to Live.