June 23, 2011

The Cutline
“Globe reporters are already in the sky to L.A.,” Globe features staffer Billy Baker tweeted after the FBI announced the arrest of Whitey Bulger. “Newsroom is going on all cylinders. Historic morning to be a journalist in Boston.” Globe editor Marty Baron tells Dylan Stableford that “we have not had a ‘Whitey’s caught’ package ready to go for the 16 years he has been on the lam.” || Bulger coverage from the Globe, Herald, and Los Angeles Times.

> FBI lights up Twitter with Whitey Bulger capture tweet
> Los Angeles Times reporter on the scene describes Bulger arrest

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