Globe taps NPR exec as its editor

BOSTON — The Boston Globe named Nancy Barnes as its next editor Monday, elevating a woman to serve in the top job for the first time in the newspaper’s 150-year history.

Barnes has worked as the chief news executive at NPR and has run major newspapers. She announced in September that she would be leaving NPR.

Barnes is set to start Feb. 1 and will follow Brian McGrory, who said in September that he would step down after 10 years as editor.

She served as senior vice president and executive editor of the Houston Chronicle from 2013 to 2018. She spent more than a decade at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, where she was named executive editor in 2007.