Bulger trial coverage
By Christopher B. Daly Whitey Bulger, courtesy of Boston PD. One of the greatest mugshots in the history of the genre. The long-awaited trial of gangster/murderer Whitey Bulger is in full swing in a...
View ArticleLet cameras into court
By Christopher B. Daly As I recently argued, we the people deserve to have cameras in all our courtrooms (except maybe juvenile court) and our legislative bodies. The latest case in point: the...
View ArticleAnd fuck you, too!
In case you are the last person on the planet who doesn’t know what was said in U.S. District Court in Boston earlier this week in the murder/racketeering trial of Whitey Bulger, here’s a portion of...
View ArticleTo all student journalists: Stay Safe!
By Christopher B. Daly Are you a student journalist? Are you being asked to get out of the classroom and “learn by doing” through street reporting? Are you a journalism professor? Do you send your...
View ArticleWhitey Bulger: Life without parole
By Christopher B. Daly In the end, the sentencing of James “Whitey” Bulger was oddly unsatisfying. Bulger – the lord of the underworld, the big man with the killer’s coldness, the guy who struck...
View ArticleJFK Remembered
By Christopher B. Daly Among the many journalistic efforts to commemorate the assassination of John F. Kennedy on its 50th anniversary, one of the best is a production by JFK’s hometown newspaper, The...
View ArticleTed Williams and his feud with baseball writers
By Christopher B. Daly The Boston Globe is running a series of excerpts from a new book about Ted Williams, written by Ben Bradlee Jr., a former Globe editor and son of the great Washington Post...
View ArticleBoston Globe owner begins making his moves
By Christopher B. Daly It’s no great surprise that John Henry, the wealthy former investor who bought the Boston Globe late last October for less than $70 million, has named a new publisher: himself....
View ArticleGlobe owner John Henry: A man of few words?
By Christopher B. Daly Former commodities trader and current pro-sports franchise owner John Henry has also owned the Boston Globe newspaper since last summer, when he bought it for a mere $70 million....
View ArticleA tribute to Jim Foley from his boss
By Christopher B. Daly Jim Foley is remembered in this powerful op-ed by Phil Balboni, the founder of the Boston-based news site GlobalPost, which Foley was working for when he was kidnapped and later...
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