Chao Down…
Well, actually she’s up, sort of. I just like the pun. Veronica Chao, the icy editress of the Improper Bostonian, has been hired to helm the Globe’s City Weekly section. Beyond running the bi-monthly glossy rag, which, though vapid, looked downright Tolstoyan next to its main competitor, Stuff@Night, Chao is best known for being the local journo who the Weekly Dig’s nasty and craven Media Farm column fell badly in love with for several months. (I’d link to some of the columns, but they were hoovered into the void when the Dig relaunched its website.)
City Weekly, for those who don’t dig that deep into their Sunday Globe, is sort of a junior varsity City/Region, full of posi stories that in most cases only the community papers would go near. The hateful, buzz-word-laden memo from regional metro editor David Dahl is after the jump:
Great news for fans of City Weekly: we have a new editor. She is Veronica Chao, currently the editor of Improper Bostonian, which has thrived under her leadership. Veronica promises to “reflect the uniqueness of Boston,” as she put it recently, in what has become one of the Globe’s most distinctive sections. She wants to connect with Boston’s neighborhoods, reflect the vibrant diversity of the city and make the section a must read for people who want to know the buzz in Boston, Somerville, Cambridge and Brookline. A resident of Boston, she’s a big fan of public transportation — she does not own a car, folks — and is further connected to the city via her work and through mentoring and volunteer groups. She grew up in Alexandria, Va., and lived and worked in Washington before coming to Boston. She will start Oct. 12.
September 19th, 2007 at 9:54 am
if media farm can’t find love in this world, does love exist at all?
September 19th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Media Farm destroyed it all.
September 19th, 2007 at 10:01 am
also, a question - i see you tagged this entry under “media.” why not under “hot and sexxxy”?
September 19th, 2007 at 10:03 am
And who is “a big fan of public transportation”? I thought the only people who would profess to being big fans of the T are the shaved apes who get paid twice as much as their peers to do nothing, then collect massive pensions after retiring at the age of 43.
September 19th, 2007 at 11:45 am
If she can tell the difference between
Roxbury and West Roxbury or Monument
Square and Maverick Square she’ll be
miles ahead of most of her Globe colleagues.
I swear that most of the Globe’s “local”
writing sounds like it seems to come from
Manhattan by way of mapquest.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Icy? Veronica is in fact a warm person, an engaging character, and a delight at social events. She is one of the most intelligent writers in her specialty.
I had the pleasure of submitting many letters to the Improper Bostonian, many of which did not jibe with the liberal tendencies of the publication. Veronica always welcomed and published my opinions.
If there has ever been hope for the Globe, it is in the addition of Chao; if newspapers want to survive, they must have catchy sections that are must-reads. Veronica can make that happen for at least one section, and I will support her by buying the paper.