Loretta McLaughlin was an American journalist, author and newspaper editor.
10 Facts About Loretta McLaughlin
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Loretta McLaughlin was the first journalist to connect the murders and break the story about the serial killer.
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Loretta McLaughlin's family moved to South Boston when she was a child, and she graduated from South Boston High School.
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Loretta McLaughlin attended Boston University on an academic scholarship, where she studied journalism.
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Loretta McLaughlin worked as a journalist for the Boston Record American during the 1950s.
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Loretta McLaughlin later went on to work as a science writer for Harvard University, and as executive director of public relations at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, where she led a capital campaign to build its primary facility.
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In 1982 Loretta McLaughlin published her book The Pill, John Rock, and the Church: The Biography of a Revolution, about the development of the birth control pill.
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The Loretta McLaughlin research and publication records collection is held at the Francis A Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University.
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In July 1992, Loretta McLaughlin became the second woman in the Globe's history to become editor of the Editorial Page.
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Loretta McLaughlin held this position until December 1993, when she reached the Globe's then-mandatory retirement age of 65.