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Oct 17, 2024 | 
lufkindailynews.com | Meredith Nierman
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
wgbh.org | Meredith Nierman
A scene from the GBH’s 2018 Holiday Concert in Calderwood StudioBoston, MA (November 15, 2023) – GBH is embracing the spirit of the holiday season with a wide variety of festive programming for audiences of all ages. On Dec. 13 at 7:30 p.m., audiences can enjoy A Holiday Celebration, GBH's annual holiday concert, in-person or on broadcast. The event offers a front-row seat to engaging performers sharing renditions of seasonal classics and new works.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
wgbh.org | Bob Seay |Meredith Nierman
Cambridge has been on a tear to build separated bike lanes on city streets over the last four years, setting ambitious targets and bypassing traditional community engagement processes to set up safer biking infrastructure. But local elections Tuesday night — driven by key issues like housing, building energy efficiency and, yes, bike lanes — made the project’s future murky.
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Oct 23, 2023 | 
wgbh.org | Sam Drysdale |Meredith Nierman
Two of the state's top elected officials are newly encouraging colleges and universities in Massachusetts to find new approaches to "advance diversity, break down barriers, and increase access for historically underrepresented groups" in light of the Supreme Court's ruling that restricted the use of race by college administrators in admissions decisions. Gov.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
wgbh.org | Meredith Nierman |Elizabeth He
Jeremy Siegel is the co-host of GBH News' Morning Edition. He previously hosted and produced the “POLITICO Dispatch” podcast. Jeremy earned recognition for his wildfire coverage at KQED Public Radio, receiving a Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism Award for breaking news. His reporting has been featured on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, The California Report, BBC News and The PBS Newshour.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
wgbh.org | Zoe Mathews |Meredith Nierman
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu told Boston Public Radio on Tuesday she hopes “with every fiber of [her] being” to have Boston Police union contracts negotiated and resolved by the end of the year or early into 2024. “That’s been one point in my conscience that has been sitting pretty heavy,” she said. “This has been far too long that our police officers have been without a functioning contract.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
wgbh.org | Meredith Nierman |Daphne Northrop
The World, public radio’s longest-running daily global news program, is now airing on a record 376 public radio stations across the United States and in Canada, more than at any point in the program’s history. The show, produced by GBH and PRX in Boston, is heard by more than 2 million people nationwide on a weekly basis. Its secret sauce, says Executive Producer Dan Lothian, is “human-centered” journalism.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
wgbh.org | Bob Seay |Meredith Nierman
The MBTA will shut down the Green Line extension branch between Lechmere and Union Square from Sept. 18 to Oct. 13. The Squires Bridge over the MBTA tracks in Somerville — which carries 40,000 vehicles a day — needs repairs. In order to do the job, the T has to suspend service on those tracks. The Squires Bridge repairs were supposed to be completed earlier this summer, but local officials balked at the lack of adequate warning.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
wgbh.org | Meredith Nierman
When Marsha Bemko was offered a job at ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 24 years ago, she almost turned it down. “I was afraid that I wouldn’t like it,” she said. “I was working on documentary films at GBH, and I didn’t think of myself as a reality television kind of person.”To her delight—and ours—she is exactly that kind of person. Her first road trip as senior producer was to Austin, Tex., and she immediately fell in love with the program. Four years later, and 20 years ago, she became executive producer.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
wgbh.org | Meredith Nierman
Paris Alston is the co-host of Morning Edition and “The Wake Up” podcast at GBH News. She reflects more on her ancestry nowadays, looking up to her grandmothers for guidance and inspiration as she seeks for opportunities that were unavailable to them. Now, she is pursuing a social impact MBA at Boston University and is an active member of The National Association of Black Journalists.
