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Rebecca Ostriker
@rebeccaostriker.bsky.social
Deputy Op-Ed Page Editor at the Boston Globe. Former Spotlight Team investigative reporter, Arts Editor at the Globe.
So happy to win the Loeb Award for local reporting with my amazing @globespotlight.bsky.social colleagues! @bostonglobe.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The late, great @bostonglobe.com classical music critic Richard Dyer’s final gift to the Boston music community: an astounding library of 20,000-plus records, in a pay-what-you-can sale this weekend at his Cambridge condo. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/a...
October 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The rowdy colonists you never heard of, and how they might have changed the world: Terrific take on Thomas Morton and a demented piece at the the Boston Public Art Triennial
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/03/a... @bostonglobe.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Boston Mayor Wu: “Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures....Unlike the Trump administration, Boston follows the law.” Meanwhile under Trump, “good news on our economy has been as hard to find as the Epstein list.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/19/m... @bostonglobe.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
New filing: Steward general counsel didn’t know Ralph de la Torre was secretly negotiating transaction with MPT and Cerberus that would clear the way for $111M dividend–most of which went to RDLT. Comments of disbelief ensued. More from @globespotlight.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/m...
July 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Opinion | "Dam It or Bust": Frank Capra meets Norman Rockwell in West Tisbury, in this lovely cartoon from Paul Karasik. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/03/o... @globeopinion.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Wonderful news: The Scripps Howard Journalism Award for Excellence in Business/Financial Reporting goes to my @globespotlight.bsky.social colleagues and me for our series on Steward Health Care @bostonglobe.com scripps.com/fund/journal...
June 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Delighted to win @nihcm.bsky.social award for Boston Globe Spotlight Team's series on Steward Health Care with my amazing colleagues! @bostonglobe.com @globespotlight.bsky.social nihcm.org/awards/winne...
June 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Delighted to be part of amazing @globespotlight.bsky.social team named a @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social finalist in the public service category for our coverage of the Steward Health Care crisis. Love my @bostonglobe.com colleagues! apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/invest...
May 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Some very sad family news, and a beautiful obituary by Dennis Overbye of the NYT: Jeremiah Ostriker, who plumbed dark forces that shape universe, dies at 87 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/07/m... @bostonglobe.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Hundreds rallied in support of Ukraine on Boston Common yesterday, and the great @bostonglobe.com photographer
Jessica Rinaldi was there. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/23/m...
February 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
ICYMI: Superb take on editorial cartoons -- their history and importance -- by the wonderful Sage Stossel @globeopinion.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/23/o...
January 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Fascinating story: Project to memorialize over 130 residents of Home for Aged Colored Women, including formerly enslaved women who traveled north — buried in Dorchester without names — gets grant from Legacy Fund for Boston www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/04/m... @bostonglobe.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
“We think we have a plan…and then you are free at last and can take a well-deserved distribution”: MPT’s CFO to Steward CEO Ralph de la Torre. Steward Health Care a cautionary tale in private equity's push into health care. From @bostonglobe.com apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/invest...
January 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM