News Editor, wbur.org
Andrew Phelps imagined and created the new wbur.org, Boston's source for timely news and original features from NPR and WBUR. Andrew directed a team to build and launch the site in just five months and catalyzed WBUR's transformation into a multiplatform news organization. Andrew also created WBUR's editorial style guide for Web publishing, an industry first. He now serves as the news editor of wbur.org.
The new wbur.org is the first news site to make extensive use of NPR's open API, which allows users to read, listen to, and share stories from both NPR and WBUR in the same space.
Andrew created "The Bottom Line," a new WBUR blog and podcast (iTunes, Facebook, Twitter) about the changing economy. He is a regular contributor to NPR and to the "Marketplace" programs.
Andrew is a former reporter and news anchor for KPBS in San Diego. His reporting on the October 2007 wildfires was recognized by a national PRNDI award for outstanding coverage of breaking news.
Andrew designed and edited Michael Marcotte's Public Radio News Directors Guide, the first and only manual for news managers in public media.
Andrew helped launch The Jacobs Project for Reporting Excellence, a grant-funded fellowship that provides hands-on training for multiplatform journalists.
Andrew reported business news and features for the North County Times, San Diego County's second largest daily newspaper, and authored "Behind the Desk," a series of weekly profiles about standout executives.
Andrew graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a B.A. in political science. He earned an A.A. in journalism from Palomar College, where he also served as editor in chief of The Telescope, the college's student-run newspaper.
Andrew lives in Brookline. He grew up in the suburbs north of San Diego.
BOSTON — From time to time, we share your comments about our stories on Morning Edition. This week: the heroic Orange Line save, the controversy over a push to ban alcohol advertising on the T, and the remembrances pouring in for Harvard Square’s street storyteller, Brother Blue.
The line-up of candidates is growing for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Edward M. Kennedy, who served Massachusetts for nearly five decades. Read up on each candidate.
LOUDON, N.H. — If you didn’t think NASCAR was a big deal in New England, you’ve never been to Loudon, N.H., on a day like Sunday. The beginning of the “Chase for the Sprint Cup” begins there every year — and it attracts more than 100,000 fans.
BOSTON — Alex Rigopulos is out to change the way we interact with music. And his company, Harmonix Music Systems, of Cambridge, is doing it with music’s biggest franchise. “The Beatles: Rock Band” is released Wednesday for the three major video-game consoles. We spoke with Rigopulos about his work with the surviving Beatles in WBUR’s Studio 4.
BOSTON — Hundreds of mourners lined the sidewalks of Mission Hill on Saturday morning, watching and waiting for the motorcade that would deliver Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to his funeral.
BOSTON — In death as in life, Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy on Friday brought together political rivals — this time to celebrate his life and half-century of service to his country. A who’s who of politics gathered at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston for the private service featuring music, laughter and calls to continue to fight for Kennedy’s last political wish — health coverage for all Americans.
BOSTON — Sad. Ashamed. Disappointed. Those are the words Red Sox fans kept using in reaction to a report that beloved Boston slugger David Ortiz tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003.
BOSTON — A federal indictment lays out an alleged web of personal and financial relationships linked directly and indirectly to former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A fire gutted a Mormon chapel in Cambridge after breaking out during Sunday morning services. WBUR’s Andrew Phelps reports.
BOSTON — The Boston Globe says six of the seven unions involved in negotiations have agreed to concessions, so they will not immediately file a 60-day shutdown notice, as threatened. WBUR’s Andrew Phelps reports.
BOSTON — We’re working hard to a build a brand new WBUR.org, with more news, a fresh design and a more delightful user experience. In the meantime, we have made many changes to the current Web site.
