Boston Globe Promotes Two Editors, Creates New Position to Develop Front Page Enterprise Stories

Martin Baron, editor of The Boston Globe, announced today that Caleb Solomon is being promoted to deputy managing editor in charge of front-page enterprise, a new position charged with continually developing distinctive news stories that have journalistic depth and impact. Mr. Baron also announced that Shirley Leung will replace Mr. Solomon as assistant managing editor/business. Both appointments are effective May 21, 2007. Mr. Solomon has been the Globe’s assistant managing editor/business for four years. His new responsibilities include working with editors in all departments to assure that the Globe has a steady supply of high-quality enterprise stories to run on the paper’s front page. He will also help ensure that those stories carry strong photos, graphics, and design in order to provide readers a vibrant, thorough and clear presentation. In addition, he will work with Boston.com editors to find the best way to tell these stories online. In a statement to his staff, Mr. Baron noted "Caleb has demonstrated a real talent for creating page one stories and for populating the Business section with stories of wide appeal. At the same time, he has worked collaboratively with the photo, graphics, and design departments to produce a section that is a consistent standout visually. He also has played a key role in our efforts to innovate throughout the company on the Web and in print.” Ms. Leung joined the Globe as senior assistant business editor in 2004, after working for six years as a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal in its Chicago, Los Angeles, and Boston bureaus. While at the Globe Ms Leung oversaw the re-fashioning of the Sunday Business section into a lively, consumer-friendly destination for readers, while providing strong daily leadership for the paper’s retail, travel, and consumer news coverage. With this new assignment, Ms. Leung also will assume responsibility for all Business sections as well as Real Estate, Autos, and Careers. "We’ve all witnessed Shirley’s endless drive, deep passion, and impressive reservoir of creative energy,” stated Mr. Baron, "She embraced multimedia at an early stage, contributing to the Business section’s remarkable achievements online.” Before joining the Globe, Mr. Solomon, 48, worked in Brussels as assistant managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe. In that post, he planned, conceived and edited its major enterprise stories and frequently oversaw coverage of the top daily news story. He spent almost four years as editor of The Wall Street Journal/New England, a weekly section devoted to breaking regional news. He previously had overseen The Wall Street Journal’s regional section in Texas, after serving as a reporter there for eight years. Mr. Solomon graduated from Columbia College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, and he received a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism a year later. While a staff writer at The Wall Street Journal, Ms. Leung, 34, covered included food, transportation, development, and the economy. Ms Leung also previously worked as a staff reporter at the Globe and The Baltimore Sun. She has a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton University, and is a proficient speaker of Mandarin Chinese. Ms Leung is president of the New England chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. About The Boston Globe: The Boston Globe is wholly owned by The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), a leading media company with 2006 revenues of $3.3 billion, including The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, 15 other daily newspapers, WQXR-FM and more than 30 Web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com. The Company's core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment.