Gerard O'Neill

GERARD O'NEILL was editor of the "Boston Globe's" investigative team for 25 years before retiring to teach graduate courses in journalism at Boston University. With Dick Lehr, he coauthored "The Underboss" in 1989 and "Black Mass" in 2000. "Black Mass" was a "New York Times" bestseller and number one on the "Globe's" bestseller list for a year. He has won several regional and national reporting awards over several decades, including the Pulitzer; the Associated Press Managing Editors Award in...See more

GERARD O'NEILL was editor of the "Boston Globe's" investigative team for 25 years before retiring to teach graduate courses in journalism at Boston University. With Dick Lehr, he coauthored "The Underboss" in 1989 and "Black Mass" in 2000. "Black Mass" was a "New York Times" bestseller and number one on the "Globe's" bestseller list for a year. He has won several regional and national reporting awards over several decades, including the Pulitzer; the Associated Press Managing Editors Award in 1977 and 1998; the Loeb Awards for business reporting in 1991; and was a Pulitzer finalist in 1997. He holds a master's in journalism from Boston University and lives in Back Bay with his wife, Janet. He has two sons. See less