Boston Phoenix
It's the tradition of favored reporters, columnists, and editors being granted the latitude needed so that they could become insiders, or "players," within the spheres they covered, writes
Peter Kadzis, who admits he pays more attention than is probably healthy to what a change like business columnist
Steve Bailey's departure from the Boston Globe might mean. "The inside-player style of operating, of course, was never exclusive to the Globe. Back when journalism was far more circumspect, many big-city dailies had a staffer or two who enjoyed more freedom than the pack."
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Bailey found scoops where lesser journalists weren't looking (Boston)
