THE BOSTON GLOBE
METRO POLITICAL EDITOR, 2007 to present
Supervising and editing a team of six Massachusetts State House and Boston City Hall reporters, focused on breaking and enterprise news including investigations, political analysis, issues coverage, and profiles. Among the highlights: an investigative series on influence-peddling among the House speaker’s close friends which caused the speaker to resign and sparked federal and state grand jury investigations; a series on abuses of the public pension system by politically connected employees; controversies in the Boston Fire Department stemming from the deaths of three firefighters; and lively and deep coverage of casino politics following a proposal to license resort gambling.
BUSINESS WRITER, 2003 to 2007
Covered Boston’s academic medical centers, physicians, insurance companies, and the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. Areas of expertise include the FDA, Medicaid and Medicare policy, the Massachusetts plan for universal health coverage; also produced award-winning coverage of the Medicare prescription drug benefit as well as coverage of healthcare industry lobbying, conflicts of interest among doctors and hospitals, and profiteering by dialysis clinics on the biotechnology drug Epogen.
GLOBE WEST BUREAU CHIEF, 2001 to 2003
Supervised eight reporters and a group of freelancers who covered Boston’s western suburbs. Reported on a variety of local government issues and trends in local government and education. Helped lead award-winning coverage of the Station nightclub fire in 2003 in West Warwick, RI, which killed 100 people.
THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL
STATE HOUSE REPORTER, 1996 to 2000
Covered national, state, and local politics, including the presidential primaries in New Hampshire and South Carolina in 2000, the parties’ nominating conventions and several congressional and gubernatorial races; investigated RI state agencies, with award-winning stories on corruption and cronyism in the state Traffic Court.
NEWPORT BUREAU CHIEF, 1994 to 1996
Supervised three reporters and covered the U.S. Navy, marine issues, and the coastal environment.
REPORTER, 1988 to 1994
Covered Rhode Island cities and towns, with special focus on municipal corruption in Cranston and Warwick.
THE BRATTLEBORO REFORMER
NUCLEAR POWER AND POLITICAL WRITER, 1986 to 1988
Covered state and town government and ski area development in southern Vermont; coverage also included political protests, safety, and releases of low-level contamination at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear power plant.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER BUREAU, 1986
Reported stories and rewrote news for print and broadcast wires.
AWARDS
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN BUSINESS EDITORS AND WRITERS, Project Award, 2005: For coverage in The Boston Globe of GOP domination of the legislative process in Congress, with emphasis on passage of the 2003 Medicare drug insurance bill, which was loaded with financial handouts for healthcare companies.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEWSPAPER EDITORS, Jesse Laventhol Prize for Deadline Reporting by a Team, 2004: For coverage in The Boston Globe of the Station nightclub fire in 2003, which killed 100 people, focusing on highly flammable soundproofing, overcrowding, and weak inspections by local fire officials.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS EXECUTIVES ASSOCIATION, first place in enterprise, 1998: For coverage in The Providence Journal of patronage, light workloads for judges, and rights violations for motorists at the Rhode Island state traffic court.
REPORTER OF THE YEAR, The Providence Journal, 1998
EDUCATION
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, Bachelor of Arts degree with a journalism major, 1985
