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Brian McGrory is an American journalist who has been editor of The Boston Globe since December 20, 2013. He worked at the Globe for 23 years as a reporter, editor, and columnist before being appointed to the top editorial position, where he succeeded Martin Baron.

Biography
McGrory grew up in the Boston neighborhood of Roslindale and the suburb Weymouth. He says his newspapering career began as a paper boy for the Globe. His journalism career began in earnest after his graduation from Bates College. He worked for the New Haven Register and Quincy Patriot-Ledger before joining the Globe in 1989.

Editor at The Boston Globe
McGrory took over editorial leadership of the Globe at the time when the news industry in general was in turmoil, while the Globe had its own special challenges. The New York Times Co, which had bought the Globe in xxxx for nearly a billion dollars, had decided to shed the Globe among other assets it considered non-core. It had threatened to shut down the paper if the Globe's unions did not give xxxx million dollars in wage concessions, which the unions then agreed, reluctantly, to do. Marty Baron, an outsider who had won the respect of Globe employees and Boston civic leaders, resigned to take the editorship of the Washington Post.

McGrory was considered a blah blah blah. Although one of the major challenges facing the paper was how to present its content profitably online, he went into the position with what he acknowledged was "a pretty limited background in digital." As a columnist, he had cheered the announcement of a new paywalled sited for Globe journalism, saying that it could be a success, unlike the free Boston.com created by "all the Internet whiz kids in scarves and black-rimmed glasses."

McGrory says that he is trying to get the paper to do "substantive narrative, accountability stories, investigations" while also doing covering what is popular online, such as The Dress.