Ellen Clegg
In a journalism career that spanned more than three decades at The Boston Globe, Ellen Clegg held a variety of senior editing positions in the newsroom and served as editor of the Globe’s Editorial Page from 2014 to 2018. She is co-founder of an independent nonprofit news site, Brookline.News, which serves a community of 65,000 people on the border of Boston. She and Professor Dan Kennedy at Northeastern University are co-authors of What Works in Community News: Media Startups, News Deserts and The Future of the Fourth Estate, published by Beacon Press in 2024. Clegg, who wrote about life sciences for The Boston Globe and at The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, is also author / co-author of two books, ChemoBrain (Prometheus Books, 2009) and The Alzheimer’s Solution (Prometheus Books, 2010, with Dr. Kenneth Kosik).