Laura Amico has been named news editor for multimedia and data projects at The Boston Globe. Amico, who founded Homicide Watch D.C., had been editor of Boston public radio station WBUR’s Learning Lab. Read more
David Skok, NF ’12 and director of Globalnews.ca, is joining The Boston Globe as digital adviser to the editor. In a memo sent to staff on Nov. 26, Globe editor Brian McGrory said “David will play a key role in our upcoming push to further define our two brands — bg.com as a broader, more ambitious site that better reflects the creative journalism of the Globe, and a redesigned boston.com as a sharper, edgier site with a strong news spine.” Read more
As part of his Nieman Fellowship, Boston Globe reporter David Abel is taking a class on how to make documentary films. Yesterday he was working on his final project, about Juli Windsor, the first dwarf to run the Boston Marathon. He woke up at 5 o'clock in the morning and went to film Windsor getting ready, then took the bus with her to Hopkinton, where the race starts. He was standing on the finish line, shooting footage of all the runners coming across and waiting for Windsor to come in when the bombs went off. Read more
Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen, a 2003 Nieman Fellow, has won the Batten Medal for individual achievement in public-service journalism from the American Society of News Editors. Cullen, who also received the award in 2008, is the only journalist to have won the Batten twice. Read more
Join executives from The Boston Globe for a discussion about the paper’s much-anticipated new subscription-only website, BostonGlobe.com, on Monday, Sept. 26 at 5:30 p.m. Guests will include Martin Baron, the Globe’s editor; Chris Mayer, the newspaper’s publisher; Michael Manning, product director; and Lisa DeSisto, the paper’s chief advertising officer. Joshua Benton, director of the Nieman Journalism Lab, will moderate the discussion about the Globe’s new paywall. Read more
The Boston Globe Spotlight Team's coverage of the sexual-abuse scandal in the Catholic Church and the team's outstanding effort to examine charges and accusations from all sides and sources is the winner of the second annual Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. Read more
