Peter Bailey-Wells

Peter Bailey-Wells is the assistant homepage editor at the Globe, a role he has held since early 2025, where he helps lead the team that manages Bostonglobe.com and works on digital workflow and project planning across the newsroom. He came to the Globe in 2017 as a summer intern on the copy desk and worked as an overnight web producer from 2018 to 2020, managing the homepage of Bostonglobe.com, social media feeds, email newsletters, and breaking news late at night and early in the morning. From there, he became the multiplatform editor for the Express Desk, copy editing live news stories, app alerts, email newsletters, and social media posts. He also worked on the print night desk editing stories, selecting and editing obituaries, and laying out newspaper pages. During the COVID-19 pandemic he was part of the team of Globe journalists who built and maintained the newsroom's coronavirus data visualizations and graphics, an effort that was named a finalist for a 2020 Online Journalism Award in breaking news. Before coming to the Globe, he was a sports desk intern at the Lowell Sun and a Dow Jones News Fund editing intern at The Roanoke Times. He is a 2017 broadcast journalism graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Massachusetts native, and a lifelong reader of the Globe.