Former Boston Globe Editor Michael Janeway Dies at 73

Michael C. Janeway, an editor, author, journalist, and academic who spent eight years at The Boston Globe in the 1970s and ’80s, the last 14 months as the paper’s top editor in what became an abbreviated stewardship, died early Thursday at his home in Lakeville, Conn.

Mr. Janeway, who was 73, died of complications from cancer, his family said.