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The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes . [ 4 ] The Boston Globe is the oldest and largest daily newspaper in Boston and tenth-largest newspaper by print circulation in the nation as of 2023.
Legacy.com is a privately held company based in Chicago, Illinois, [1] with more than 1,500 newspaper affiliates in North America, Europe and Australia, [4] [8] [9] including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and Manchester Evening News. [10]
Edward Francis McLaughlin Jr. (August 18, 1920 – January 21, 2005) was an American attorney and politician who served as an assistant United States Attorney, Boston city councilor, [4] president of the Boston City Council, [1] and the 60th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 1961 to 1963.
As a journalist at the Boston Record American, McLaughlin, along with Jean Cole, covered the Boston Strangler murders in 1962. She was the first journalist to connect the murders and break the story about the serial killer. In 1992, she was appointed as Editorial Page Editor for the Boston Globe, only the second woman to serve in this role.
Benjamin B. Taylor (born c. 1947) is an American former journalist and newspaper executive who served as publisher of The Boston Globe from 1997 to 1999, the fifth and final member of the Taylor family to oversee the Globe during a 126-year period. [2]
Francis James Rosa was born on November 7, 1920, in Boston, to Charles Rosa and Eustachia Calamaria. His father was a barber, and both parents were immigrants from Italy. [2] Rosa was the youngest child of five, was a paperboy as a youth, and began working with The Boston Globe as a copy boy in the sports department prior to World War II. [1]
Richard M. Dyer (December 29, 1941 – September 20, 2024) was an American music critic who specialized in classical music. [1] Described by the music critic Alex Ross as "a dean of the profession", from 1976 to 2006 he was the chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe.
During his 40+ years writing career with the Globe (interrupted only by a brief departure in 1973), [2] McDonough worked with other legendary Globe sportswriters such as Peter Gammons, Bob Ryan, and Leigh Montville. [3] Beginning in 1993, he was named an associate editor of the Globe. [3] Montville has said of McDonough: "He was the scoop guy.