Alex Beam

Alex Beam (born 1954) is an American writer and journalist, who is currently a columnist for The Boston Globe. Beam grew up in Washington, D.C., as his father Jacob D. Beam was a diplomat. Beam attended Phillips Exeter Academy, where he was Foreign Correspondent for the twice-weekly school newspaper, The Exonian, and graduated from Yale University in 1975. He helped establish a small weekly newspaper in Ludlow, Vermont, The Black River Tribune. Beam worked at Newsweek and BusinessWeek, where his tenure included Boston and Moscow bureau chief, before joining the Boston Globe. His twice-weekly column for the Globe has appeared since 1987. He was a John Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1996-1997. In addition to his...