Brian McGrory

Editor

Brian McGrory is the editor of The Boston Globe. He served as editor from late 2012 until early 2023, and then resumed the role again in January 2025. He arrived at the Globe in 1989, and has been a Metro columnist, a White House correspondent, national reporter, general assignment reporter, and a suburban reporter, as well as the Metro editor. He won the Scripps-Howard award for commentary and the Sigma Delta Chi award for general column writing in 2011. The Globe newsroom was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes during his first tenure as editor and was a finalist another dozen times.

During his nearly three years away from the Globe, McGrory was the chair of the Journalism Department at Boston University and a professor of the practice. At BU, he launched a student-driven, professionally edited newsroom that wrote stories for local nonprofit newsrooms. He also served as a board member, strategic adviser, interim CEO, and interim editor of The Baltimore Banner, one of the most ambitious nonprofit initiatives in journalism.