Sharp-eyed media observers may have noticed a new-but-familiar name writing an
Urban Diary column in last weekend's Boston Globe's Sunday regional editions -- Beverly Beckham.
For years a fixture on the Herald's op-ed page, Beckham's style of homey and very personal (some would say schmaltzy) writing is designed to get readers to break out the Kleenex -- and may or may not be your cup of tea. She joins a group of other Herald journalists who recently left that paper amid big budget cuts and staff reductions -- including Tom Farmer and Jennifer Rosinski -- who are now writing for the Globe Weekly sections.
The real moral of that story is that for journalists, Boston is a small town. If you're a veteran Herald journalist suddenly out of a job, there's really nowhere else to go -- unless the Globe will take you or you decide to get into some form of public relations. This ain't New York where a media type can make any number of lateral moves if his or her current situation goes south.