Joe Sullivan and David Lefort - Massarotti to join Globe and Boston.com; Addition of longtime scribe among new digital/print initiatives
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.