Adrian Walker

The Boston Globe
Associate Editor and Columnist

Adrian Walker is Associate Editor and Columnist at The Boston Globe, where he writes a twice-weekly column focusing on politics and local news. A native of Miami, he joined the Globe in 1989 as a general assignment reporter, after three years at the Miami News. Walker was a member of the Globe Spotlight Team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2018 for the series “Boston. Race. Image. Reality.” He is a frequent commentator on political and social justice issues - including the Netflix documentary “Trial 4” - and was the host of the Globe’s award-winning ten-part podcast “Murder in Boston” on the Stuart murder case. He was the Globe’s City Hall bureau chief, State House reporter and deputy political editor before becoming a Metro columnist in 1998. He was named an Associate Editor in 2021.

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