Senior Producer, wbur.org
Andrew Phelps directed a team to build and launch the new wbur.org in just five months as project manager. He guided WBUR through a multiplatform transformation, designing editorial standards and compiling the first style guide for Web publishing.
Andrew is also a regular contributor to NPR and to the Marketplace programs. He 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.
In 2008, Andrew designed and edited Michael Marcotte's Public Radio News Directors Guide, the first and only manual for news managers in public media.
In 2007, 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 was 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 — Teachers and staff members at six Boston schools will have to reapply for their jobs, and the principals of five schools have been fired, after the state identified 12 city schools as “underperforming” on Thursday.
When bulldozers demolished seedy Scollay Square in the midcentury to make way for Government Center, city planners worried the sex shops and peep shows would seep into Back Bay. To keep the unmentionable away, Boston tried a radical experiment: The edge of Chinatown was designated an adult entertainment district. And police looked the other way.
BOSTON — Some 70 artists around Boston set out to reveal their “inner robots” for a new show opening Friday in the South End. The results are beautiful and bizarre.
BOSTON — With Haiti’s main hospitals in ruin, a Boston woman’s army of doctors and nurses is mobilizing to help people in Port-au-Prince. We speak with Ophelia Dahl, executive director of Partners In Health.
BOSTON — Senate race updates, in brief: The Boston Globe endorses Martha Coakley, the Democrats worry Martha Coakley is losing ground, and the Scott Brown campaign is emboldened.
BOSTON — Technologist David Weinberger says Google’s commitment to “not being evil” may no longer be possible in China. The search superpower says it’s considering pulling out of China after its Gmail servers were hacked.
BOSTON — On Day One of his unprecedented fifth term, Mayor Thomas M. Menino promised an era of renewal and innovation and sought to mollify critics who say 20 years in office is too long.
BOSTON — A black president is inaugurated. A newspaper is threatened. A deadly flu virus infects thousands of people. A police officer and a professor make amends over beer. A four-term mayor wins a fifth. And the Senate’s last lion dies. Explore the biggest WBUR stories of 2009 in this interactive timeline.
BOSTON — Rapping nurses, a brutal New Hampshire murder, the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and an extraordinary MBTA surveillance video are among the most viewed and e-mailed WBUR stories of 2009.
BOSTON — It’s hard enough keeping track of all the candidates for Senate. Try pronouncing their names.
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.
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 — Host Curt Nickisch takes us inside the mind of Harry Markopolos, the finance geek in the mismatched tie, who tried for 10 years to bring down Bernard Madoff. Harry is still coming to terms with the fact he’d always been right, but it didn’t do any good. Hear the special Bottom Line report.
