Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Yesterday's awards from the American Society of Businesss Editors and Writers had some good news for the local dailies. The Boston Herald Business section was voted a winner in the overall excellence category for medium-sized papers and its reporting team also won in the breaking news category for its work on the Gillette sale.

At the Globe, Steve Bailey, always a force, was honored as best columnist at a giant-sized newspaper.

The Herald's Business section is one of the paper's success stories in my view. With a philosophy that's kind of akin to putting the puck on net in a hockey game, the section feels busy, active, and energetic -- and made a smart choice to be aggressive in its coverage of the media industry. (What else would you expect a media critic to say?)

Having said that, one of the paper's brand names, assistant managing editor for Business Cosmo Macero Jr., is leaving April 14 to go to work for O'Neill and Associates. There is a scramble, largely internal, to succeed him with financial editor Greg Gatlin and senior executive city editor Eric Convey believed to be among the leading candidates in that contest.

4/5/2006 2:50:04 PM by Mark Jurkowitz | Comments [0] |