Brian MacQuarrie

Reporter, Boston Globe

Brian MacQuarrie is a reporter for The Boston Globe. He joined the newsroom in 1987 from The Philadelphia Inquirer and has covered a broad range of important stories for the Globe, including the Boston Marathon bombings, Hurricane Katrina, the September 11th attacks, the hunt for al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and as an embedded front-line reporter during the US invasion of Iraq. MacQuarrie has served as the paper’s roving National reporter and spent much of 2012 covering President Obama’s reelection campaign. He has returned to Iraq and Afghanistan several times, and in 2022 reported from Ukraine in the early months of the Russian invasion. MacQuarrie contributed to the Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Marathon bombings and has been honored by the National Headliner Awards and the New England Newspaper & Press Association. MacQuarrie graduated with honors from both Colby College and the University of Missouri.