Rebecca Ostriker

About

As the Boston Globe’s Deputy Op-Ed Page Editor, I edit staff opinion columns and op-eds by contributing writers on vital issues of the day, from politics to business, health, education, and culture. From 2019 to 2024, I served as an investigative reporter on the Globe Spotlight Team, producing stories on Steward Health Care’s collapse, Boston’s unprecedented housing crisis, a celebrated heart surgeon who amassed one of the nation’s worst surgical malpractice records, political patronage and tragedy at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, and more. My Spotlight reports were featured in portfolios that won the Scripps Howard Journalism Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award, two Online Journalism Awards, and a national Edward R. Murrow Award, among other prizes, and one was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in the public service category. In 2010-19, I was the Globe’s Arts Editor, a tenure during which two arts critics won Pulitzer prizes, and I won a New York Times Company Punch Award. For two years, I also served as a page 1 editor for the Monday paper. I got my start at the Globe as a copyeditor in the Sports and Living/Arts departments, and I’ve written arts stories and criticism on everything from music and movies to dance.