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Brian McGrory ’84, editor of The Boston Globe<\/em>. (Suzanne Kreiter\/Boston Globe staff)<\/p><\/div>\n

Brian McGrory ’84, a longtime writer for The Boston Globe<\/em> and the newspaper’s editor since 2012, speaks about the state of American journalism at Bates College at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n

The event is open to the public at no cost, but seating is limited. If you plan to attend, please RSVP to ehaffey@bates.edu<\/a> or 207-755-5976. A reception follows.<\/p>\n

A 27-year veteran of the Globe<\/em>, McGrory served as a metro columnist, national reporter, White House correspondent and metro editor before being named editor in 2012. He covered the 1993 Boston mayoral campaign, President Bill Clinton\u2019s 1996 re-election campaign and Clinton\u2019s second term as president.<\/p>\n

The Boston Globe<\/em> received the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2014 for its coverage of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, and has been a finalist in four other categories over the last two years.<\/p>\n

McGrory has also published four novels and a memoir. In 2011, he won both the Scripps-Howard Award for commentary and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for general column writing.<\/p>\n

Born and raised in Boston, McGrory comes to Bates as a Distinguished Alumnus in Residence at the invitation of the College Key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brian McGrory ’84, a 27-year veteran of The Boston Globe and now the paper’s editor, has guided the paper to Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting, including awards for coverage of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":98907,"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],"tags":[1786,9857,4856],"class_list":["post-98905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-boston-globe","tag-brian-mcgrory","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98905","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\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98905"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98954,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98905\/revisions\/98954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}