MBTA safety officials were not immediately notified of a decision to shut down a work site Saturday inside the Red Line’s Ashmont Tunnel because of air quality concerns, a situation that one employee described as “embarrassing,” according to internal emails obtained by the Herald.
The MBTA is in the process of auditing its fleet of buses after a review of 30 found a covert mics drivers can use to notify the agency of an emergency overwhelming failed when tested, according to internal emails.
Update: Globe spokeswoman Heidi Flood confirmed this morning that Andrea Estes "no longer works at the Globe." I have edited the headline to reflect that. Update 2: Globe editor Nancy Barnes has told her staff that she's working to unravel what went wrong. Boston Globe reporter Andrea Estes, an investigative journalist whose recent error-riddled story about…
There was a time when many major news organizations, including The Boston Globe, had an ombudsman a reader advocate who would report on the inside workings of the newsroom when problems arose. Well, I'd really like to know what happened with the Globe's reporting on MBTA managers who live far from Boston. The story…