Massarotti to join Globe and Boston.com
The Globe and Boston.com made the following announcement today:
Boston.com is the best site for Red Sox fans -- and all followers of Boston sports -- seeking up-to-date, accurate information, the most interesting stories, and in depth analysis.Things just got even better for Boston.com readers, who will have a new voice to turn to starting in September, when Tony Massarotti will bring his astute insight and commentary to Boston.com and The Boston Globe. Massarotti has been one of the leading reporters and columnists in Boston for nearly 20 years, and has a natural love of the city, growing up in Watertown and Waltham and attending Tufts University.
He comes to Boston.com and The Boston Globe from the Boston Herald, where he has worked since 1989. At the Herald, he became known for exclusive news stories and an uncompromising eye for the truth. He was best known for covering the Red Sox but in recent years was a general columnist, chronicling some of the best years in Boston sports history.
For Boston.com and the Globe, Massarotti will be the last man in the locker room, prying loose original information that will give readers a fresh and distinctive viewpoint of what's going on behind the scenes.
The Globe and Boston.com readers also have a new Red Sox beat writer, Amalie Benjamin. Benjamin has been involved in the Red Sox beat for the last three seasons. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has also worked at the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Benjamin grew up in Newton and has been following the Red Sox since ... well, before she was born. Her mother was in labor and ready to leave for the hospital but her father wondered if he would be OK to wait until Yaz batted in the next inning before they left.
On Boston.com, Touching All The Bases by Chad Finn has been one of the site's most popular blogs. Finn, a proud native son of Maine, will join Boston.com full time in September, when he will continue to provide his original viewpoint in Touching All The Bases but will also provide readers with frequent news updates and aggregate interesting information during the day. As we all know, the Boston sports scene is practically a 24-hour business.
Boston.com's original new voices, Massarotti and Finn, will combine with Benjamin and the rest of the crack sports staff to make Boston.com the best destination for sports fans.
Congratulations to the Globe and Boston.com... not just for Tony Massarotti, but also for promoting Amalie Benjamin, in my opinion the best writer you have on staff. Good work all around!
Agreed! Amalie writes insightful stories, has a great way with words, and doesn't seem to want to inject herself into the story like some long-time Globe columnists.
What about Goron Edes? Will he still write for the Globe?
Kudos! Hopefully this will shore up the Globe's lineup and reduce the parade of no-names and interns we've been forced to read lately. Butterflies in the press box?! Good God! Bring on Massarotti and Benjamin. Hopefully Cafardo is sticking around? Lots of buyouts and changes in this stupid economy so who knows where the carousel will end up.
Awesome.
Glad you left the Herald, for Boston's best!!
Edes left the Globe to work for Yahoo.com
Massorotti is not a cheerleader so that's good news. Provided he's not flipping off the fans.
Give Chad as much as he can handle. A true fan of Boston Sports
Not sold on Benjamin. Needs to improve her professionalism a touch. Comes off like an intern. Break a story or two and I will change my tune
If Amalie Benjamin is the new "Red Sox beat writer", what was her title before? I understand she is replacing Edes, but wasn't she pretty much exclusively a Red Sox beat reporter even before Edes left?
Will McDonough, Peter Gammons, Bob Ryan, John Powers, Leigh Montville, Larry Whiteside.... and the best of all ...Ray Fitzgerald, who convinced me there was something better than the Denny's Grand Slam I was pounding every Saturday morning, while he made me smile.
Now Tony Massarotti ? Are you kidding ?
Oh the inhumanity !
Sorry that I won't be able to hear Tony on WEEI anymore however...net/net...that's a loss for me
Edes left for Yahoo Sports.
This doesn't make sense to me, when Gordon Edes and Jackie MacMullen were both allowed to leave and/or pushed to resign for financial reasons. I understand that Amalie is younger and therefore probably at a lower salary, but Tony Mazz couldn't have come cheap. What gives?
Massoratti is a clown who likes to throw it out there to see what sticks. I thought he was kidding when he said that Grady should have left Pedro in the game. He convinced me he was clueless when he continued to repeat the same thing for a year until the curse was destroyed. What's the point of having another sportswriter with no common sense? The Globe already has CHB and Cafardo.
The good news is there will be more Finn...someone who knows enough about the sports and sports personalities he blogs on to accurately analyze a situation.
Massaroti is no Cafardo. But then neither was Edes.
Benjamin is a waste - no baseball acumen at all and a poor writer. At the very least, you expect a reporter to have a strong layman's understanding of the topic they cover. it would surprise me immensely if Benjamin understood what a drag bunt was, and when to use it.
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