Boston Globe editor McGorry to step down at end of the year

Brian McGrory

Boston Globe executive editor Brian McGrory plans to step down at the end of the year, reports Don Seiffert of the Boston Business Journals.

Seiffert reports, “McGrory, who took over in December 2012 after the departure of Martin Baron, told staff he will head to Boston University to chair the journalism department there. He also said he plan to write a regular column in the Globe, saying it will be ‘ideally not too different from what I used to do in my professional life.’

“McGrory has worked at the Globe for 27 years, including as a Metro columnist and associate editor, as well as a White House reporter, national reporter, general assignment reporter, and suburban reporter, according to the Globe website.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.