Managing Editor/News
As managing editor for news, Chinlund oversees the Globe newsroom, with special focus on the daily production of Page 1. She also is the resident counselor on questions of accuracy, ethics, and taste. Over the course of three decades at the Globe, Chinlund has covered politics; worked on the Spotlight Team; served as editor of the National and Foreign desks; and spent three years as the paper’s ombudsman. She learned journalism by serving as a VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America).
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THE BULGER MYSTIQUE | PART 4
Image as dictator, tales of revenge obscure Bulger’s charm
By Christine Chinlund, Dick Lehr and Kevin Cullen , Globe Staff
Bill Bulger’s us-versus-them view of the world, and his “never take an insult” vow, seem drawn directly from the streets of turf-conscious South Boston.
The Bulger Mystique | Part 3
Law enforcement officials’ lament about an elusive foe: Where was Whitey?
By Christine Chinlund, Dick Lehr and Kevin Cullen , Globe Staff
The near-misses of Whitey Bulger have been law enforcement’s most conspicuous failure in a decade of unprecedented accomplishment that saw the downfall of two other notorious gangsters.
The Bulger Mystique
Whitey eludes snares set by troopers, DEA
By Christine Chinlund, Dick Lehr and Kevin Cullen , Globe Staff
After a while, they called themselves “The Losers” -- this bunch of state troopers who spent 1980 trying to bust Whitey Bulger, only to suffer a series of bellyflops.
The Bulger Mystique | Part 2
As brothers flex muscles, busing enters the picture
By Christine Chinlund, Dick Lehr and Kevin Cullen , Globe Staff
As the 1970s progressed, the approaching maelstrom of court-ordered school busing would test them both Whitey and Billy Bulger.