Matthew V. Storin
Adjunct Professor, Gallivan Program for Journalism, Ethics and Democracy, University of Notre Dame
Civic Journalism
After graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in sociology, Matt Storin began his newspaper career with the Daily News in his hometown of Springfield, Mass. Beginning in April, 1965, he served for four years as the congressional correspondent for the Griffin-Larrabee News Bureau in Washington, D.C.
Storin joined the Washington Bureau of The Boston Globe in 1969, serving for two years as White House correspondent,. He then went to Boston and for three years was the paper’s metropolitan editor, followed by a year in Tokyo as the paper's Asian bureau chief, where he covered the final months of the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia. He held a variety of editing and management positions at the Globe from 1976-82, including national editor, assistant managing editor, assistant managing editor for features and deputy managing editor. He was appointed managing editor in 1982 and served in that capacity for three years.
Storin left the Globe to become deputy managing editor for national affairs with U.S. News & World Report (1985-86) and went on to become editor and senior vice president of the Chicago Sun-Times (1986-87), editor of the Maine Times (1988-89), and managing editor and later executive editor of the New York Daily News (1989-92).
Storin returned to the Globe in August, 1992, as executive editor and was promoted to editor in March, 1993. During his tenure as editor, the newspaper won four Pulitzer Prizes. After retiring as editor of the Globe in July 2001, Storin held a fellowship at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in the spring of 2002. His research article, “While America Slept: Coverage of Terrorism from 1993 to September 11, 2001” was published in April, 2003, by Harvard University in a book, “Terrorism, War, and the Press.”
Storin has served on Notre Dame's advisory council for the College of Arts and Letters (1996-2002) and was a founding member of the advisory committee for the University's John Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics & Democracy. He is now an adjunct professor in the program. From August, 2002, until January, 2005, he was associate vice president for news and information at Notre Dame. In 2006 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws by Notre Dame.
Born in Springfield, MA on Dec. 24, 1942, Storin is married to the former Keiko Takita. They have four grown children, Karen, Aimee, Sean and Kenyatta.