Alex Beam

Career He helped establish a small weekly newspaper in Ludlow, Vermont, The Black River Tribune. Beam worked at Newsweek and BusinessWeek, where his tenure included service as Moscow and Boston Random House published Broken Glass: Mies Van Der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece in March, 2020.

For a time, Beam wrote a weekly blog about the game of squash for Vanity Fair's online edition.

Controversy In December 2010, Beam wrote an article in the Globe about Liverpool Football Club's supporters, criticizing them for continuing to mourn the deaths of 96 supporters during the Hillsborough disaster, which he called a "riot." He also referred to the city as "doggy" and "grotty."

The Globe later issued a correction to the online version of the article, acknowledging that the disaster was not a riot, and that the official investigation blamed poor crowd control and inadequate stadium design.