BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 2012--
Brian McGrory, a 23-year veteran of The Boston Globe who led
groundbreaking coverage of corruption as an editor, and writes with
depth and texture about the region as a columnist, has been named the
next editor of The Boston Globe, effective immediately.
Mr. McGrory, 51, will report to Christopher M. Mayer, Globe Publisher. A
Boston native, he will be charged with running the newsroom for The
Boston Globe and BostonGlobe.com and the newsroom’s contribution to
Boston.com.
“Brian has distinguished himself throughout his career at the Globe as a
reporter, editor and columnist and as a native of Boston, he is the
ideal candidate to lead the Globe’s newsroom,” said Mr. Mayer. “Brian
will continue to emphasize the accountability reporting that has been
the Globe’s trademark, combined with narrative storytelling that gives
readers a strong sense of our unique community.”
“This is a great honor to guide the Boston Globe news operations, since
I grew up delivering the Globe, then reading the Globe, and later
writing for the Globe,” said Mr. McGrory. “It is also a great honor to
work with my colleagues and build on what I believe is the best metro
newspaper in America.”
Mr. McGrory joined the Globe in 1989 as one of the first reporters hired
into the South Weekly section. Since then, he has covered the city of
Boston as a general assignment reporter, served as White House
correspondent, and as a roving national correspondent. In 1998, he
became a metro columnist, and quickly made his mark as a must read. He
was named associate editor in 2004.
In 2007, he was named deputy managing editor for local news. He led the
metro staff in a comprehensive investigation of corruption and cronyism
on Beacon Hill that eventually led to resignations and indictments.
Governor Deval Patrick and the State Legislature passed a pension reform
bill after an investigation by the Globe revealed public pension abuses,
coverage that brought Sean Murphy recognition as a finalist for the
Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize by the Shorenstein Center on the
Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University. Under McGrory,
the newsroom also reported extensively on a city system that bestowed
benefits on favored developers.
He directed wide-ranging, sensitive coverage of Senator Edward M.
Kennedy’s struggle with brain cancer, his death, and his funeral.
McGrory steered the metro staff to new levels of narrative journalism,
stressing the value of vivid and detailed storytelling in an era when
consumers have many media choices. An 8,000-word narrative about a pair
of sisters who died in an arson fire in South Boston after years of
neglect won the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism and led to
widespread reforms in government services for children.
After nearly three years as metro editor, he resumed his twice-a-week
metro front column, where he has regularly enlightened readers about the
quirks and character of the community and held public officials and
business leaders accountable. He is the author of a memoir and four
novels.
“During his tenure as metro editor, Brian built a strong team of
reporters and editors and imbued the newsroom with a competitive spirit.
Day after day, Brian and his team delivered award-winning journalism, in
print and online,” Mayer added.
McGrory was raised in Roslindale and Weymouth. He received a B.A. from
Bates College in Maine, and worked early in his career at the New Haven
Register and The Patriot Ledger in Quincy.
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Source: The Boston Globe
Boston Globe
Ellen Clegg, 617-929-3339
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