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Lynn Jolicoeur

Reporter/Producer
Lynn Jolicoeur

Lynn Jolicoeur wears many hats at WBUR: field producing All Things Considered segments, reporting for local news programs, and producing for the national shows Here & Now and On Point.

Prior to joining WBUR, Lynn worked as a television news reporter and anchor for eighteen years. Her career took her to four stations in the Midwest and New England, most recently Boston’s WCVB-TV. While working for a station in Ohio, she was the only local television journalist to report from the scene of the Oklahoma City bombing. In Connecticut, her investigative stories resulted in amendments to two state laws protecting consumers and crime victims, and indirectly led to the value of a major credit card company’s stock plummeting 3 billion dollars in one day.

Lynn is the winner of numerous journalism awards including a Boston/New England regional Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in News Reporting. She obtained a journalism degree from Boston University.

Outside the world of news, Lynn has two very fun “gigs.” She is a singer, fronting her own band that performs jazz and pop music at restaurants and functions; and she is the mother of twins. She and her children live in the MetroWest area.

Recent stories

Cambridge Firm Launches First-Of-Its-Kind Spinal Cord Injury Study

May 21, 2013
CEO Reynolds holds InVivo “scaffolds," which will be inserted into study subjects' spinal cords. (Lynn Jolicoeur/WBUR)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — InVivo Therapeutics has received FDA approval to insert its “scaffold” into the spinal cords of study patients — the first time a device to treat spinal cord injury will be studied in humans.

One Fund Boston Becomes Model For Potential National Victims’ Fund

May 17, 2013

BOSTON — A nonprofit organization may form a central nationwide fund to benefit victims of future mass attacks.

Boston Police Officer With War Injuries Offers Advice To Marathon Victims

May 15, 2013
Boston Police Officer Terry Shane Burke, who lost a leg in Iraq in 2006 and now works as a crime scene technician. He was one of many officers who processed the marathon bombing scene on Boylston Street, and he’s offered support to bombing victims. (Lynn Jolicoeur/WBUR)

Officer Terry Shane Burke had his left leg amputated above the knee and offers insight into the recovery process and what it takes to regain independence.

Boston Takes Steps To Preserve Marathon Memorial Items

May 15, 2013

BOSTON — A month after the Boston Marathon bombings, the makeshift memorial continues to grow. We spoke with an archivist about the future of the items left there.

Worcester Funeral Home Known For Taking Unwanted Bodies Has Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s

May 03, 2013
Worcester funeral director Peter Stefan poses next to boxes of unclaimed ashes for an unrelated 2008 news story. (Lisa Poole/AP)

BOSTON — But funeral director Peter Stefan said he cannot find a cemetery to accept the body.

Public Invited To Add Their Voices To Marathon Song

May 03, 2013

BOSTON — Stephen Randall’s song for the bombing victims is designed to keep adding additional voices as people anywhere record themselves.

DYS Commissioner Dolan Chosen To Head Up Probation Department

May 02, 2013

BOSTON — The state agency had been wracked with charges of patronage hiring before a new state law and change in leadership.

Unharmed, At Least Physically: Boylston Street Law Firm Struggles To Regain Normalcy

April 25, 2013
Attorney Paul Michienzie, center, along with friends and colleagues, outside his law office on Boylston Street before the Marathon bomb blasts (Courtesy)

BOSTON — The day started as a celebration and ended with the firm’s employees unable to return to their office for more than a week.

‘It’s All Right, Buddy, At Least I’m Alive’: Double Amputee Comforts Younger Brother

April 24, 2013
An emergency responder and volunteers push Jeff Bauman in a wheelchair after he was injured in an explosion near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15. (Charles Krupa/AP)

BOSTON — Jeff Bauman, a 27-year-old from Chelmsford, lost the lower portion of both legs in the attack — and picks up his brother about what happened.

For Hospital Chaplains, Delicate Work After Marathon Bombings

April 23, 2013
The Rev. Julia Dunbar, director of pastoral care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Lynn Jolicoeur/WBUR)

BOSTON — At the Rev. Julia Dunbar’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, they’ve treated bombing victims — and now the suspects of the attack.

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