Most named to lead features at Globe

Most, 41, will assume his new role May 1. He'll take over responsibilities from Fiona Luis, the assistant managing editor for features, and pick up other duties as well. Luis, who has overseen the Globe's feature sections since 2002 and guided the creation of g, is taking a company buyout and will be leaving the paper.

In his new role, Most said he wants to do more to push arts features to the front page, showcase the newspaper's critics in the paper and on Boston.com, and find more ways to take readers behind the scenes of the local arts scenes.

"G is conceived as a daily magazine, and we happen to have a great Sunday magazine. So we want to get them working together," he said. "I'm inheriting a product that readers like, that already has had a great liftoff."

In a note to the staff yesterday, Globe editor Martin Baron said the paper was pulling the Travel section and the Globe magazine under the same editorial umbrella as g to make more effective use of features resources. "Doug brings to the task a record of strong leadership, along with his restless, creative energy," Baron wrote.

A successor to Most as editor of the magazine will be named soon, Baron said.

Most was born in Boston and raised in Rhode Island. He graduated from George Washington University, worked as a reporter for newspapers in South Carolina and New Jersey, and was senior editor at Boston Magazine before joining the Globe in 2003.