Matthew V. Storin was editor of The Boston Globe from 1993–2001. In a 36-year journalistic career, he also served as deputy managing editor of U.S. News & World Report from 1985–86, editor of The Chicago Sun-Times from 1986–87, editor of the Maine Times from 1988–89, and was managing editor and then executive editor of the Daily News in New York from 1989–1992. During his tenure as editor of the Globe, the paper won four Pulitzer Prizes. A native of Springfield, MA, he is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (1964). He began his journalistic career as a reporter at The Springfield Daily News, joining the Griffin-Larrabee News Bureau in Washington, D.C. in 1965. Moving to the Globe in 1969, he covered Congress, the White House and was Asian bureau chief, covering the last stages of the war in Vietnam and Cambodia. He held a number of editing posts at the Globe before being named managing editor in 1982. Having left the Globe in 1985, he returned as executive editor in 1992, assuming the editor’s post in March 1993. He served as associate vice president for news and information at the University of Notre Dame where he now teaches courses in journalism and ethics. At the Shorenstein Center, his research will focus on post–September 11 U.S. coverage of anti-American sentiment.
While America Slept: Coverage of Terrorism from 1993 to September 11, 2001
January 1, 2002
A paper by Matthew V. Storin, spring 2002 fellow, considers whether American news outlets utterly failed to prepare the public for the trauma of 9/11, or raised at least some flags of caution. The research spans an eight-and-a-half-year period from the bombing of the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993, through the coverage of
