Martin Nolan (journalist)
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Martin F. Nolan is an American journalist. A longtime reporter and editor for The Boston Globe, Martin F. Nolan has covered American politics with a distinctive style that deployed allusions from Shakespeare to baseball.
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His reporting was innovative. In 1971, he began a year-end tradition of recalling the year's notable obituaries, an “Auld Lang Syne” feature widely copied by other newspapers and magazines.[1]
In 1970, he was the first reporter to use “Joe SixPack” to describe a working-class American voter.[2]
Nolan wrote for the Globe from 1961 to 2001. While working as a White House correspondent, his name appeared on President Richard Nixon's “enemies list” in 1973.[3]
He was a general assignment reporter, manning the Globe desk at Boston police headquarters overnight on the “lobster shift”. After covering Boston City Hall and the Massachusetts State House, Nolan was assigned to Washington. In 1969, he was named Washington bureau chief, and in 1981, he became the Globe's editorial page editor.