Paul Connearney

Weekend Managing Editor

Paul Connearney is the Weekend Managing Editor and Weekday Senior Writer who oversees WBUR's local news operations on weekends and contributes to WBUR's All Things Considered during the week.

Paul is a veteran Boston broadcast journalist. He was the Assistant News Director at WBZ for 15 years.

He began his career as an executive editor at the former all-news station, WEEI.

He lives in Franklin with his wife Pat.

Recently published

How Mass. progressives are getting ready for Super Tuesday

With the outcome here not in doubt, and the campaigns focusing on "swing-states," voters here are looking for other ways to make their voices heard.

Local Coverage

04:55Mar 4, 2024

Medford voters fill the voting booths at Missituk Elementary School. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

'Voting is personal': Advocates encourage voter participation in Massachusetts

Local voter participation advocates are urging residents to cast ballots in the presidential primaries.

Local Coverage

04:55Mar 4, 2024

A toddler sits before a sculpture of poet Phillis Wheatley. (Sharon Brody/WBUR)

Boston composer honors Phillis Wheatley with original music inspired by acclaimed poet's work

Musician Mel Fitzhugh said she hopes her music can help amplify Wheatley's story of becoming the first African-American to publish a volume of poetry while growing up enslaved in the...

Arts & Culture

04:20Jun 17, 2023

The finish line on Boylston Street in Boston, April 14. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Remembering the Boston Marathon bombings, 10 years later

Saturday marks exactly 10 years since the bombings at the Boston Marathon killed three people and injured hundreds more. Survivors and admirers of the marathon reflect on how they're processing...

Local Coverage

03:28Apr 14, 2023

An MBTA map illustrating the newly added Green Line stops extending past Lechmere station into Somerville and Medford. The expansion is expected to be running and open to the public starting Dec. 12, 2022. (Sharon Brody/WBUR)

Somerville and Medford mayors discuss Green Line extension, T's largest expansion in decades

The MBTA's new Green Line expansion to Somerville and Medford is set to open Monday. The extended subway line is being lauded as a major environmental win.

Environment

05:30Dec 10, 2022

Boston's Orange Line train. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Transit advocate weighs in on looming MBTA service changes

Starting Monday the MBTA will cut back how often trains run on the Red, Orange and Blue lines in response to safety concerns raised by the Federal Transit Administration.

Local Coverage

05:10Jun 19, 2022

A man was shot and killed by police in the area of 22 Glendale Street in Dorchester after the man stabbed an officer in the torso, according to the Boston Police Department.

Officer stabbed, man shot and killed by police in Dorchester

A man was shot and killed by police in Dorchester early Saturday morning after the man stabbed an officer who was responding to an emergency call, according to the Boston...

Local Coverage

May 14, 2022

Boston startup founder in Ukraine shares experience finding refuge from Russian attack

The head of Boston cybersecurity startup SOC Prime and some of his Ukrainian-based employees are finding refuge in a Ukrainian village near the border with Poland after fleeing Kyiv when...

Local Coverage

05:20Mar 13, 2022

Local groups protesting Beijing Olympics promote alternative programming

The Olympics are always full of personal triumphs and challenges. But in Boston, many people say they want another story to be told.

Local Coverage

04:38Feb 6, 2022

Antiracist scholar Ibram X. Kendi on race relations in 2022: 'In many ways, we're still in 1962'

Ibram X. Kendi says 2022 brings to mind the early 1960s, when Martin Luther King Jr. spoke out against the filibuster as a barrier to civil rights and voting rights...

Local Coverage

05:59Jan 16, 2022