{"id":61839,"date":"2013-02-25T11:02:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=61839"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:20:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:20:58","slug":"media-coverage-mcgrory-84-named-editor-of-the-boston-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/25\/media-coverage-mcgrory-84-named-editor-of-the-boston-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"Media describe arc of newspaperman Brian McGrory ’84, new Boston Globe editor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coverage of Brian McGrory ’84 being appointed Boston Globe<\/em> editor has focused on the arc of his newspaper life, from serving 52 readers as a Globe<\/em> paperboy to serving over a million as the paper’s new editor.<\/p>\n

In this Globe<\/em> video, McGrory, a native of Weymouth, Mass., and a 23-year veteran of the paper, describes his lifetime love of newspapers and his hopes for the Globe. McGrory succeeds Marty Baron, now executive editor of The Washington Post<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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For media observers, the first two months of McGrory’s editorship have been a microcosm of newspaper challenges in the 21st century.<\/p>\n

Andrew Beaujon, who reported on McGrory’s appointment in Poynter<\/em>‘s MediaWire<\/a><\/strong> in December, did a followup interview in which McGrory discussed the challenge<\/a><\/strong> of untangling the Globe’s paywalled BostonGlobe.com<\/em> presence from its free site, Boston.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

In mid-February came the announcement that the Globe’s parent company, The New York Times<\/em>, will explore selling the Globe<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, which it has owned for 20 years.<\/p>\n

A political science major at Bates, McGrory was a Bates Student<\/em> reporter, news editor and features editor. He did special reports on sexism in academia, alcohol issues on campus and residential life program, among other issues.<\/p>\n

In 1983, he reported a significant campus story of the decade, a student protest against military recruiters on campus due to the ban on gays in military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

McGrory once served 52 readers as a Boston Globe paperboy and now serves over a million as the paper’s new editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":61878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,195,11009],"tags":[11051,1786,9857,10777,8486],"class_list":["post-61839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-news-politics","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-boston-globe","tag-brian-mcgrory","tag-marketing","tag-the-bates-student"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61839"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61879,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61839\/revisions\/61879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}