Doug Most is a veteran journalist in Massachusetts, author of three books, and now the Executive Editor and Assistant Vice President at Boston University. When he's not working, he might be found running the streets of Needham, Mass., shooting threes in his weekly pickup basketball game, binging shows like "The Americans" and "Breaking Bad" and "Luther" with his wife, trying to convince his kids to spend six minutes with him, or walking his friendly hound. He's worked at newspapers in Washington, D.C., South Carolina, and New Jersey. He spent 15 years as magazine and features editor at The Boston Globe, and has written for national magazines, including Sports Illustrated, Parents Magazine, and Runner's World. "The Race Underground" is the narrative history of Boston and New York struggling with dangerously overcrowded neighborhoods, and desperately searching for relief, and ultimately finding it through the painstaking construction of subway tunnels beneath their streets. Most's first book, "Always in our Hearts," was a true-crime story based in New Jersey about two teenagers who hid their pregnancy from their parents and killed their baby to avoid responsibility. His latest book, "Launching Liberty," due out in August 2025 from Simon & Schuster, tells the human story of the Liberty ships of World War II.

 

A little more about Doug, if you're interested. He grew up in Rhode Island, and despite two parents who were native New Yorkers, his older brother made sure that he would become a hardcore Boston sports fan. Yes, Yankees Suck. He found journalism early, writing about high school life for the weekly Barrington Times and then covering local news for the Providence Journal. He had been at George Washington University for all of three weeks when the editor-in-chief of the school paper, The Hatchet (a fellow Rhode Islander, of course), offered up the sports editor job. It got off to a rocky start when the headline the managing editor put on his very first soccer story was "Colonials Crucify Catholic!" But it was all good from there. The Hatchet led to a sportswriting gig at The Washington Post during school, covering high school and college sports, and the Yankees Single A farm team, the Prince William Canons. Driving out to those games in Northern Virginia in his 4-speed Celica, a Big Mac in hand, was good times. Covering life in Rock Hill, South Carolina, county government in Morristown, New Jersey, and transportation in Hackensack, N.J., along with the murder case of the two teenagers that became "Always in Our Hearts," followed. Along the way he fulfilled a lifelong dream with a feature in Sports Illustrated about four young men shot by state troopers in a racial profiling stop, a story that appeared in Best American Sports Writing. After moving from New York City to Boston for an editing job at Boston Magazine (the smartest thing he ever did because a month after arriving in Boston, he met a cool social worker at a speed-dating event and two years later they were married), he landed a journalist's dream job. A chance to redesign and relaunch the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. His long run at the Globe led to his current role, leading an award-winning newsroom at Boston University in the Marketing and Communications department. At every stop, he has never lost his passion for what got him into journalism in the first place—storytelling.