Eileen McNamara

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By | January 01, 0001

First cut

Buyouts shrink the Globe newsroom — but not enough
To state the obvious, this isn't a great time to be out of a job.
By ADAM REILLY | March 25, 2009

How did Deval Patrick's greatest strength become a dangerous weakness?
You campaign in poetry, Mario Cuomo famously claimed, but you govern in prose. Don’t buy the dichotomy.
By ADAM REILLY | April 24, 2008

The player

Trying to find some meaning in ace biz-boy columnist Steve Bailey’s move to London
The exit of Boston Globe business columnist Steve Bailey this past week to take a post in London as a general-interest news editor with Bloomberg signifies the exhaustion of a tradition.
By PETER KADZIS | April 02, 2008

A brief for independents

Letters to the Portland editor: March 21, 2008
May I offer a brief for independent candidacies for US Senate and House seats based on my experience as an independent 2006 Senate candidate?
By LETTERS TO THE PORTLAND EDITOR | March 19, 2008

Extreme makeover: Globe edition

Now more than ever, this is Marty Baron’s newspaper
Earlier this week, in an e-mail to the Boston Globe newsroom, editor Marty Baron announced the imminent departure of three key employees.
By ADAM REILLY | March 12, 2008

King said George Romney didn't march

But, as usual, the truth wasn't good enough for Mitt
Romney was not satisfied with what George Romney actually did. He inflated it, placing his father into the iconic position of marching alongside the civil rights leader.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | December 21, 2007

A rare thumbs-up

The Globe turns out two good choices
When two of the Boston Globe ’s three metro columnists left the paper earlier this year there was talk that Editor Marty Baron might simply leave their jobs unfilled.
By ADAM REILLY | June 20, 2007

Savage love

What we talk about when we talk about the Globe’s Pulitzer
First things first: congratulations to Globe reporter Charlie Savage on a much-deserved Pulitzer Prize.
By ADAM REILLY | April 18, 2007

Sympathy for McNamara

Blowback
In the January 10 Boston Globe , columnist Eileen McNamara sized up the legacy of long-time South Boston city councilor Jimmy Kelly, who died the day before.
By ADAM REILLY | January 17, 2007

Debate and switch

As The Globe Turns On Reilly
By the end of last Thursday’s Democratic gubernatorial debate, it was Kaddish for Tom Reilly, at least according to everybody in the chin-strokerati (except the Boston Herald ’s Howie “Bleep Conventional Wisdom” Carr).
By JOHN CARROLL | September 13, 2006

Digging for attention

After the Big Dig tunnel tragedy, the Herald and the Globe put on a full-court press. Who came out on top?
A great big plant. That was the main image on the front cover of the Boston Globe on Tuesday, July 11 when the electronic media was buzzing about the death of 38-year-old Milena Del Valle inside one of the Big Dig tunnels.
By ADAM REILLY | July 19, 2006

Let it bleed

When a pretty Boston woman is murdered in New York, the Boston dailies go to war
The horrific New York murder of 24-year-old Imette St. Guillen pitted the city’s two major dailies against each other in ways that reflect the strengths and weaknesses, as well as the editorial philosophies, of the two rivals.
By MARK JURKOWITZ | March 22, 2006