- Ty Burr
Ty Burr is a film critic for the Boston Globe, a position he has held since July 2002. For ten years prior to that, he worked for Entertainment Weekly as the magazine's chief video critic, and also covered film, music, theater, books, and the internet. He began his career at Home Box Office in the 1980s, where he helped program the Cinemax pay-cable service.
- Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris is a film critic at "Boston Globe". Before that he wrote for the "San Francisco Examiner", and later at the "San Francisco Chronicle". He also wrote for and edited the Culture section for "Student.Com". He graduated from Yale University in 1997 and grew up in Philadelphia. He now lives in Cambridge. At the "Globe" he reviews films along side Ty Burr.
- Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist. Goodman worked as a researcher and reporter for Newsweek magazine between 1963 and 1965, and has worked as an associate editor at the Boston Globe since 1967....
- Jeff Jacoby
Jeff Jacoby (b. February 10, 1959) has been a "Boston Globe" opinion/editorial columnist since 1994. Born in Cleveland, he is a graduate of George Washington University and the Boston University School of Law. From 1987 to 1994, he was chief editorial writer for the Boston Herald. He generally writes from a conservative perspective, but his columns have been described as "a must-read" by the left-leaning Boston Phoenix.
- Dan Shaughnessy
Dan Shaughnessy is a sports columnist and reporter for "The Boston Globe" as well as a best selling author and television and radio sports personality. Shaughnessy grew up in Groton, Massachusetts is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
- Gordon Edes
Gordon Edes is an American newspaper sportswriter, and covers the Boston Red Sox baseball beat for the Boston Globe. He is a voter for the Baseball Hall of Fame. He is also a frequent guest on WBZ television's Sports Final program with Bob Lobel. He attended High School at Lunenburg High School in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, graduating in 1972.
- Conan O'Brien
Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, writer and television personality best known as host of NBC's late-night talk/variety show "Late Night with Conan O'Brien". NBC has announced that O'Brien will take over for Jay Leno as host of "The Tonight Show" in 2009.
- Bob Ryan
Robert P. Ryan (born February 21, 1946 in Trenton, New Jersey) is a longtime columnist for the "Boston Globe" and a sports talk show host on the New England Sports Network. He has been described as a basketball guru and is well known for his coverage of the sport including his famous stories covering the Boston Celtics in the 1970s. After graduating from Boston College, Ryan started as a sports intern for the "Globe" on the same day as Peter Gammons.
- Matt Bai
Matt Bai is an American journalist who covers U.S. politics for the "New York Times Magazine" with a particular focus on the Democratic Party. His book, "The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics", is forthcoming from Penguin Press in August 2007. Bai earned a Masters degree from the Columbia School of Journalism in 1994. He worked as a "Boston Globe" staffer from 1995-96, …
- Peter Gammons
Peter Gammons (born April 9 1945) is a sportswriter, media personality and a National Baseball Hall of Fame honoree.
- Charlie Savage
Charlie Savage is a newspaper reporter in Washington, DC, with the Boston Globe. He was the recipient of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting on the issue of Presidential Signing Statements, specifically the use of such statements by the Bush administration. He writes about the Supreme Court, homeland security, and US detention and interrogation policies at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere in the War on Terrorism.
- Derrick Z. Jackson
Derrick Z. Jackson is an opinion columnist/associate editor for the Boston Globe. Jackson's views are unequivocally liberal, and he often addresses politics and racial issues in his twice-weekly column. Jackson is notable for his annual columns discussing graduation rates of college football and basketball teams. During each year's March Madness, he devotes several columns to discussing the graduation rates of the participating teams.
- Hiawatha Bray
Hiawatha Bray is a technology columnist for the "Boston Globe". Born in Chicago, he started as a reporter and managing editor for "Computerpeople Weekly". He joined the "Boston Globe" in 1995. He has received the John Hancock Award for Business Journalism, and has been honored by the National Association of Black Journalists. "Marketing Computers" magazine named him as one of the 10 most influential newspaper journalists covering technology.
- Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon (1951-) is an American journalist, media critic and antiwar activist. A longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), Solomon is also the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national consortium of policy researchers and analysts which works pro-actively to provide alternative sources for journalists. His weekly column, "Media Beat", has been in national syndication since 1992.
- Alex Beam
Alex Beam (born 1954) is an American writer and journalist, currently a columnist for "The Boston Globe". Beam grew up in Washington, D.C., as his father Jacob D. Beam was a diplomat. Beam graduated from Yale University in 1975. Beam worked at "Newsweek" and "BusinessWeek", where his tenure included Boston and Moscow bureau chief, before joining the "Boston Globe". His twice-weekly column for the "Globe" has appeared since 1987.
- Thomas Oliphant
Thomas Oliphant is an American columnist who has written for the "Boston Globe" since 1968. Oliphant appeared in the 2004 movie "Going Upriver", in which he recounted his observations of John Kerry's activities in opposition to the Vietnam War in 1971. In March 2005, Oliphant suffered a brain aneurysm. Subsequent to his recovery, according to a February 2006 article in Boston Magazine, …
- Cathy Young
Cathy Young (Ekaterina Jung) (b. 1963 Soviet Union) is a journalist and writer. She writes columns for "Reason" (monthly) and "The Boston Globe" (weekly), and is the author of many books and articles. Her writing commonly espouses equality feminism.
- Don Share
Don Share is a poet, editor, and teacher. This summer he will become Senior Editor of "Poetry" magazine in Chicago. Share has been Curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University since 2000.
- Fred Kaplan
Fred Kaplan is a journalist and contributor to "Slate" magazine. His "War Stories" column covers international relations and US foreign policy, with a particular focus on the Bush Administration and major related geopolitical issues.
- Penelope Trunk
Penelope Trunk has been building online communities since the mid 1990s. She climbed corporate ladders in the software marketing industry and then founded three companies of her own. Penelope began writing business advice when Fortune magazine published an open call for a woman to write about her own life as an executive. Penelope auditioned with a piece about her brother's lame business ideas, and a piece about her boss's sex appeal, and she won the job.
- Ron Borges
Ron Borges is a former sportswriter for "The Boston Globe". He is a regular guest on Michael Felger's radio show The Mike Felger Show on 890 ESPN.
- Michael Smith
Michael Smith (born in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an NFL reporter for ESPN. He is a regular guest on the channel's "Around the Horn". He has won "Facetime" on Around the Horn 78 times (as of May 3, 2007). He has also written for the Boston Globe. Michael Smith joined ESPN full time in September 2004 as an NFL reporter and a regular on Around the Horn. Smith covered the New England Patriots at the Boston Globe for three years.
- Anthony Shadid
Anthony Shadid was born in Oklahoma of Lebanese descent. He is a staff writer for "The Washington Post" where he is an Islamic affairs correspondent based in the Middle East. Before the Post, Shadid worked as Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press based in Cairo and as news editor of the AP bureau in Los Angeles. He spent two years covering diplomacy and the State Department for the Boston Globe before joining the Post's foreign desk.
- Linda Greenhouse
Linda Greenhouse is the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for "The New York Times", covering the United States Supreme Court. She has covered the Court since 1978, with the exception of two years during the mid-1980s during which she covered the Congress. She has also been a regular guest on the PBS program "Washington Week" since 1980.
- Jackie MacMullan
Jackie MacMullan is an American newspaper sportswriter, columnist and editor. MacMullan is currently a columnist and associate editor of the Boston Globe. She began writing for the paper in 1982. From 1995 to 2000 she covered the NBA as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. In 1999, MacMullan collaborated with Larry Bird on his autobiography "Bird Watching: on Playing and Coaching the Game I Love".
- Bud Collins
Arthur "Bud" Collins (b. June 17, 1929 in Lima, Ohio) is an American journalist and former television commentator for NBC Sports.
- David Warsh
David Warsh is a journalist and author who has generally covered topics in economics and finance. He wrote a weekly column for the "Boston Globe" for 18 years, and currently manages and writes for the website "Economic Principals". Warsh is a 1966 graduate of Harvard College.
- Jack Balkin
Jack M. Balkin (born August 13, 1956 in Kansas City, Missouri) is the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. Balkin is the founder and director of the Yale Information Society Project (ISP), a research center whose mission is "to study the implications of the Internet, telecommunications, and the new information technologies on law and society." He also writes political and legal commentary at a weblog, Balkinization.
- Eileen McNamara
Eileen McNamara was a Pulitzer Prize winning metro columnist for the "Boston Globe". She is known for her outspoken opinions. She is now a journalism professor at Brandeis University.. Her husband is Globe Basketball writer Peter May. She made an appearance on the Daily Show on September 25 edition. McNamara collaborated with Nan Sook Hong on the book "In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family".
- Nina Easton
Nina Easton (born 1958) is Washington Bureau Chief for "Fortune Magazine" and a commentator on the Fox News Channel, appearing regularly on Special Report with Brit Hume and Fox News Sunday. Prior to joining Fortune in 2006, she served as Deputy Bureau Chief and lead political writer for the "Boston Globe". She has also appeared as a commentator on ABC's "This Week," CBS's "Face the Nation," CNN's "News night" and PBS's "Washington Week," among others.
- Daryn Kagan
Daryn A. Kagan (born January 26, 1963) is the creator and host of DarynKagan.com. Before launching her web site, Kagan was the host of the CNN news show "CNN Live Today" shown from 10am-12pm Eastern Time. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, she was a news anchor and reporter with CNN from 1994 to 2006. Kagan had been described by the Los Angeles Times as a "CNN mainstay."
- Adrian Walker
Adrian Walker is an African American metro columnist for the Boston Globe. His column appears in the City & Region section of the Globe on Mondays and Thursdays.
- Ross Gelbspan
Ross Gelbspan is an American writer and activist. He has written two books relating to global warming-- "The Heat Is On" (1997) and "Boiling Point" (2004). "The Heat Is On" received national attention when President Clinton told the press he was reading it. "Boiling Point" was the subject of the lead review in the Sunday "New York Times" Book Review. That review was written by former Vice President Al Gore.
- Pete Hamill
Pete Hamill is a prominent American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. He is currently on the staff of "The New Yorker". In the early 1950s, he studied at the School of Visual Arts. In 1960, Hamill began working as a reporter for the New York Post. In subsequent years, he became one of the city's best known reporters, as columnist for the Post, the "New York Daily News", and "Newsday".
- Robert J. Samuelson
Robert J. Samuelson is a contributing editor of Newsweek and "Washington Post" where he has written about business and economic issues since 1977. His columns appear biweekly in both publications. His articles also appear in the "The Los Angeles Times", the "The Boston Globe", and other influential newspapers. He began his career in journalism as a reporter on the business desk of The Washington Post 1969.
- Steve Almond
Steve Almond was raised in Palo Alto, California and graduated from Henry M. Gunn High School. He got his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University. He spent seven years as a newspaper reporter, mostly in El Paso and at the "Miami New Times". He has been writing fiction for the last eight years. His work can be found in a range of literary magazines including Nerve and 3:AM Magazine. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.
- Mike Lupica
Mike Lupica (born 1952) is an American newspaper columnist, best known for his provocative sports commentary in the "New York Daily News" and his appearances on ESPN.
- Dan Wasserman
Dan Wasserman is an American political cartoonist for "The Boston Globe".
- Michael Holley
Michael Holley is an American television and radio sports commentator and writer. He formerly wrote columns for the "Boston Globe", "Chicago Tribune", "Cleveland Plain Dealer", and "Akron Beacon Journal". He has appeared on the ESPN television program "Around the Horn" as well as "I, Max" on Fox Sports Net.
- Michael Flaherty
Micheal Flaherty is Co-Founder and President of "Walden Media", a Production Company, which focuses on films that entertain and educate. Through Walden, he has developed educational materials and programs that insight enthusiasm in the classroom and connect learning to entertainment. Prior to founding Walden Media in 2001, Flaherty designed innovative curricula in the Boston Public School System, …