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Bully for BU!

After six years at the Phoenix , I recently got my first pre-emptive libel threat. It came, most unexpectedly, from an investigative reporter. And beyond the fact that this struck me as a blatant attempt at intimidation, it demonstrated how tricky journ
A curious conflict of interest is followed by a legal threat — from a journalism center!
By ADAM REILLY | March 12, 2010

Laurels for the Globe

Yesterday, Globe editor Marty Baron sent out a congratulatory note describing a couple gratifying award wins for the paper--including an ASNE prize for the Globe's...
By Adam Reilly | February 18, 2010

Arts editor Scott Heller leaving Globe

Globe arts editor and Phoenix alum Scott Heller will be leaving the paper for the New York Times at the end of this month. The...
By Adam Reilly | February 09, 2010

Brave new Globe?

Sizing up the Boston Globe 's recent past is easy: simply put, in the past 12 months, the paper has seen enough gut-wrenching drama to change the name of Morrissey Boulevard to Melrose Place. But forecasting the paper's future is another matter.
With a new publisher and a bevy of edit changes, is the Boston Globe poised for a new chapter?
By ADAM REILLY | January 29, 2010

Rumblings at the Globe greatly exaggerated

About that ominous meeting at Morrissey Boulevard I mentioned earlier today? Turns out that, as a commenter suggested, it wasn't that ominous after all. Before...
By Adam Reilly | January 05, 2010

Difference of opinion

It’s been three months since Peter Canellos replaced Renée Loth as editor of the Boston Globe ’s editorial page.
Peter Canellos reinvents Globe ’s editorial page. Plus, Tom Menino’s campaign gets late-breaking help from the Banner and Herald .
By ADAM REILLY | November 06, 2009

Big story

On July 30, the New York Times revealed that David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez — heroes of the Red Sox' 2004 and 2007 World Series wins — are on the (supposedly) secret list of a hundred-plus major leaguers who tested positive for performance-enhancing d
Did the Globe drop the steroid ball?
By ADAM REILLY | August 07, 2009

Loth exits Globe ed page, Canellos back to Boston

Word out of Morrissey Boulevard is that Renee Loth, the Globe's editorial-page editor, told her staff today that she'll be stepping down, apparently to write...
By Adam Reilly | June 11, 2009

Baron responds

In a blog post last night, I argued that the New York Times Co.'s poor diplomacy was responsible for...
By Adam Reilly | June 09, 2009

Clegg exits Globe

Back in March 2008, when Marty Baron revamped the leadership of the Globe's newsroom following some ...
By Adam Reilly | May 15, 2009

New in the Phoenix: Scenes from the Globe crisis

In which I relate details from Marty Baron's Seaport Hotel speech, the most recent Boston Newspaper ...
By Adam Reilly | April 30, 2009

Will the Globe survive?

What would Boston's media landscape look like without the Boston Globe ?
Sizing up the paper's future as it approaches the deadline from hell
By ADAM REILLY | April 29, 2009

Globe promotes Most, tightens up features

Congrats to Doug Most, formerly the editor of the Globe Magazine, who's been named the paper's deputy managing editor/features. Structurally, Most's appointment seems eminently sensible. (It also raises the question...
By Adam Reilly | April 14, 2009

Buyouts shrink the Globe newsroom — but not enough

To state the obvious, this isn't a great time to be out of a job.
First cut
By ADAM REILLY | March 25, 2009

Red all over

If there's one group of professionals whose job insecurity rivals that of the Detroit auto worker, it's the men and women who make America's newspapers.
The Globe needs 50 buyout volunteers. So far, few are cooperating — and that likely means bloodshed on Morrissey Boulevard.
By ADAM REILLY | February 25, 2009

Rescuing the Globe

If you work at the Boston Globe , and have any bright ideas on how to stop that paper's downward spiral, management is all ears. At least, that's the party line.
10 ways to bail out Boston's sinking paper of record. Plus, spinning Bill Kristol's brief time at the Times .
By ADAM REILLY | January 28, 2009

Wanted: friendly advice for the Globe

In today's memo announcing the elimination of up to 50 newsroom jobs, Globe editor Marty Baron makes...
By Adam Reilly | January 15, 2009

Involuntary layoffs at the Globe

Forty-two positions total, in the circulation/marketing and advertising departments, including senior managers.That's just one of the developments reported in an internal memo from Globe publisher...
By Adam Reilly | November 06, 2008

Globe redesign: what say you?

My initial thoughts: --"g" actually looks good, notwithstanding some uninspired cover art. There's plenty of editorial heft inside, and the "Parting Shot" feature on the...
By Adam Reilly | October 24, 2008

Fiedler on the spot

As jobs in journalism-education go, Tom Fiedler’s new gig isn’t bad. Quite the contrary.
Having taken the reins of BU’s contentious College of Communication, Pulitzer winner Tom Fiedler learns to navigate the thorny world of academia
By ADAM REILLY | August 20, 2008

Extreme makeover: Globe edition

Earlier this week, in an e-mail to the Boston Globe newsroom, editor Marty Baron announced the imminent departure of three key employees.

Now more than ever, this is Marty Baron’s newspaper

By ADAM REILLY | March 12, 2008

A rare thumbs-up

When two of the Boston Globe ’s three metro columnists left the paper earlier this year there was talk that Editor Marty Baron might simply leave their jobs unfilled.
The Globe turns out two good choices
By ADAM REILLY | June 20, 2007

A new balance

To grasp the significance of the latest shake-up at the Boston Globe , consider this: the trio that just received key promotions all spurned overtures from elsewhere.
The Globe reaches for a sense of equilibrium after months of anxiety
By ADAM REILLY | May 23, 2007

Savage love

First things first: congratulations to Globe reporter Charlie Savage on a much-deserved Pulitzer Prize.
What we talk about when we talk about the Globe’s Pulitzer
By ADAM REILLY | April 18, 2007

Silent treatment

When next year’s Pulitzer finalists are announced, the Washington Post ’s coverage of dismal conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center will almost certainly make the list. But did the Post actually break the story? The deadliest sin: The Times'
Solving the press’s credit problem
By ADAM REILLY | March 14, 2007

Borges-gate revisited

Forget two months without Ron Borges.
Lesson One: the perils of sharing
By ADAM REILLY | March 08, 2007

The Globe releases its inner tabloid

Pessimists eager to chronicle the Boston Globe ’s decline and fall got some choice new material this week.
SexyFront
By ADAM REILLY | February 21, 2007

Morrissey Boulevard melancholia

The mood at the Boston Globe has been increasingly dismal since the turn of the millennium.
Amid the latest cutbacks, dejection reigns at the Globe
By ADAM REILLY | January 31, 2007

Whatever happened to Memogate?

If the Big Dig tunnel collapse that killed Milena Del Valle is the biggest Boston news story of 2006, the media story of the year is the Globe reporting — incorrectly — that a safety officer at the site all but predicted Del Valle’s death back in 1999.
Waiting for the Globe ’s mea culpa
By ADAM REILLY | November 10, 2006

Digging for attention

A great big plant. That was the main image on the front cover of the Boston Globe on Tuesday, July 11 when the electronic media was buzzing about the death of 38-year-old Milena Del Valle inside one of the Big Dig tunnels.
After the Big Dig tunnel tragedy, the Herald and the Globe put on a full-court press. Who came out on top?
By ADAM REILLY | July 19, 2006

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