About david beard

BEARD, DAVID has been editor of Boston.com, the Boston Globe's sister online site, since September 2006, helping integrate its news, sports, business, feature and multimedia operations with the Globe's. He previously served as an assistant managing editor of the Globe, in charge of the paper's five regional editions. Before that he ran the Globe's City Weekly section and served as the paper's deputy foreign editor. Beard also reported and edited for South Florida's Sun-Sentinel, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, and The Associated Press, for which his exotic postings included Argentina, the Caribbean, and Mississippi. He is a native of Pennsylvania and a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, where he discovered a love of Chicago's electrified blues and jazz scene. He is a former Inter American Press Association scholar and has taught news reporting at the Harvard Extension School. He and his wife, Gail, and their two sons enjoy winter sports, soccer, and travel.