Brian McGrory

Biography

McGrory was born in Boston, and grew up in Roslindale and Weymouth, Massachusetts. He graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, with a Bachelor of Arts in 1984. His began his journalism career with the New Haven Register and The Patriot Ledger.

McGrory joined The Boston Globe in 1989 as a Metro columnist, and quickly moved up the ranks to associate editor. He has served as a White House reporter, and has written four novels plus a memoir. In 2011, he received a Scripps-Howard award for commentary and a Sigma Delta Chi Award for column writing.

McGrory was named editor of the Globe in December 2012, succeeding Martin Baron. His staff won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2014 for coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.

In 2018, former Globe editor Hilary Sargent accused McGrory of sexual harassment by sending her an inappropriate text while McGrory was overseeing her work. McGrory denied the allegation, and an internal investigation cleared him of wrongdoing.

On September 7, 2022, McGrory announced he is stepping down as editor of the Globe at the end of 2022 and will become the Chair of Journalism at Boston University.