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When Thomas Winship took over in 1965 as editor of the Boston Globe, the city was considered a journalistic backwater, and the paper was not rated as even the best of the six in town. Its news coverage had lost the crusading spirit of its early days as a "people's daily" fighting Brahmin interests. The editorial page featured wambling, civics-text platitudes. There were advertisements on Page One. Winship's arduous task was made more delicate by family diplomacy: his predecessor was his father, Laurence Winship, who had dominated the paper for 40 years...
...nearly a century, the Globe was undistinguished even by the standards of Boston, a notoriously bad newspaper town. Thomas Winship, who took over as editor in 1965, has transformed the Globe into a feisty, eccentric, unpredictable paper that wavers, from day to day and even from page to page, between brilliance and bathos. Under Winship the paper has won eleven Pulitzer Prizes, two last week. Characteristically, however, almost all the Pulitzers have been for issue crusades, local investigative projects, or opinion, and only one has been for coverage of breaking local news, which remains perhaps the Globe's chief...
...paper is at a crossroads. Winship, 63, is due to retire next year, and his successor must determine whether to discipline the Globe at the risk of diminishing its undeniable heart. Still too much a writer's paper, the Globe may need a sterner master in its next phase than the puckish, avuncular Winship...
...Winship apparently suggested the collaborative effort shortly after the last debate. "I thought it would be a good idea," he said yesterday. "The more debates the better it's not a question of Harvard cornering the market on these sorts of things. It's just much easier to organize an event when two organizations work together...
...Globe has never sponsored a debate with the IOP before, but "we have worked with them closely on a lot of things in the past," Winship said. "We've hosted a couple of dinners for visiting mayors...