dialogue between the boston region and its unions continued past a midnight deadline amid threatens that the newspaper must be sold inside minutes . its operator , the new hampshire newspaper , said it would record a notice with the government on monday that it must shut the paper if there was no agreement on spending cuts . the owners asked the paper to agree to $ 20m ( £13 . 4m ) in money saves costs . guaranteed jobs for life are expected to be a halfway point , with the unions saying they are not tradable .
The Boston Globe is owned by The New York Times.