Herald's Ross jumps to Globe--updated!

Published Jun 11 2008, 02:09 PM by Adam Reilly

Big loss for the Boston Herald: Casey Ross, who's done a fine job covering the State House for the past year and half, is leaving that paper to join the Globe.

The Herald-to-Globe path is pretty well worn: current Globe staffers who've followed it include metro columnist Kevin Cullen, magazine writer Charlie Pierce, and legal reporter Shelley Murphy. That said, given the Herald's already-anemic staffing--and the lingering effects of Tomase-gate--this is a real setback for the tabloid.

UPDATE: Caleb Solomon, the Globe's managing editor for news, says Ross "will be covering commercial real estate and the nexus of business and politics"--which suggests he'll be a sort of Tom Palmer-Steve Bailey hybrid. "It's a great job, and he's really well suited to it," Solmon adds. Also, Boston Daily's Amy Derjue reports that Hillary Chabot will replace Ross as the Herald's State House bureau chief.

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Ron Newman said:

When I click on the Don't Quote Me logo at the top of this page, it takes me to a completely unrelated blog called "On the Download". Why?

June 11, 2008 5:14 PM
Adam said:

A longstanding technical glitch, Ron. But I'm told change is imminent.

June 11, 2008 5:37 PM
Devine said:

That, and Adam wants to make sure we're all well versed on the latest quartets of bearded pipe-leggers making amorphous post-rock down in ARC.

First Kim Atkins, now Ross -- maybe the Herald should keep the folks they want to hang onto away from the Daily Briefing blog. Nice hire for the Globe, tough loss for the Herald, and it'll be interesting to see how Ross slides into what sounds like a pretty juicy beat.

A discussion question for the class: If Ross will be covering commercial real estate and the nexus of business and politics, where do you see him spending most of his time early on? Southie waterfront, maybe?

June 11, 2008 8:24 PM

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