Mark Pothier, the business editor of the Boston Globe, has been named assistant managing editor for opinion at the paper.
He has been the business editor since July 2013. In December, he oversaw the roll out of a standalone business section at the Globe.
Pothier joined the Globe in 2001, having previously worked as executive editor of a group of weekly newspapers owned by the Patriot Ledger. He completed a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University and then became the first editor of Globe South, the newspaper’s zoned section covering the South Shore.
He later was named an assistant business editor and deputy business editor.
Pothier has edited award-winning Globe projects, including Upper Crust pizza’s exploitation of workers; a series on restaurants mislabeling fish; and exposes on child prostitution and pornography.
He is a graduate of Merrimack College.
