
Josie Guarino joined our news team in 2016. She is a WBUR mid-day and evening news host, as well as a writer and producer for WBUR's All Things Considered.
Prior to WBUR, Guarino was a Morning Edition and All Things Considered news host at Rhode Island's NPR news station in Providence.
She also worked as a TV reporter and news anchor in Rhode Island, where she hung out with NBC's Kristen Welker, now host of "Meet the Press." She covered politics in the Ocean State, that "gift that keeps on giving" before moving onto the crime beat.
Her on-camera debut happened in Bangor, Maine on New Year's Eve in 1999 covering Y2K — the feared widespread computer crash that never happened. That gave her the opportunity to display her tap-dancing skills in front of the camera. She was a general assignment reporter who covered stories from monitoring black bears in Madawaska to events in tony Kennebunkport.
Previously, Guarino also worked for CBS as an associate producer for the crime show "48-Hours," where she helped to develop a two-part series on the 2002 Christa Worthington murder on Cape Cod.
Guarino has had many radio stints over the years, including at WQRC, WXTK and WATD. She wrote and produced environmental features for the community radio station WOMR in Provincetown on Lyme disease, the plight of right whales and lobstering. She's earned awards from The Associated Press and the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association.
She's a 4th-degree black belt in taekwondo. In her free time, you may find her in the "dojang" training for her 5th degree.
Her other hobbies include skiing, exploring new recipes and writing poetry/songs. She's also teaching herself how to play the guitar in an attempt to impress her musically talented son.
Recently published

Art at South Station, hidden in plain sight
The train station is home to a work of art that thousands of people pass each day without looking up.

UMass says several student visas revoked by federal government
Chancellor Javier Reyes says their student status has also been terminated by the federal government. UMass Boston said visas had been revoked for two of its students as well. It's...

Getting the South Coast Rail up and running is a passion for top MBTA official
After 40 years of planning, work and more than one billion dollars, starting Monday morning, rail service will connect South Coast communities, including New Bedford and Fall River with Boston.
Mass. education secretary on the impact of U.S. Department of Education's cuts
Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler joins WBUR's All Things Considered to discuss how these changes will impact education in Massachusetts.

At 85, conductor Benjamin Zander is in the prime of life
The founder of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra has conducted more than a thousand concerts over five decades. He has no plans to slow down or step away from the conductor’s...
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Egremont election worker has been volunteering at the polls for 60 years
Marlene Soudant first volunteered as a poll worker in the 1964 presidential election, when Lyndon Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater. She remembers wooden hand-crank ballot boxes and announcing winners to a...
Mass. delegate sees an 'energized' party at the Democratic National Convention
Longtime Democrat Darnell Williams is a Massachusetts delegate at the convention. WBUR's Josie Guarino spoke with Williams ahead of the DNC to talk about the party's mood and platform.

Plymouth family crosses into Egypt after month stuck in Gaza amid deadly conflict
Hazem Shafai, Sanaa Shafai, and their three young children expect to spend a few days at a hotel near the international airport in Cairo in order to get medical treatment...

Light clothes and lots of water: Tips to help you stay safe during a heat wave
With record-breaking heat expected to bake the region this weekend, organizations in and around Boston are preparing to help those in need. Here are some safety tips to help you...

Ukrainian teen who fled to Mass. wants to return home as a post-war leader
Svitlana Pokliatska, her mother and brother fled Ukraine shortly after the war started. They're staying at her uncle's home in Sharon, Mass. Pokliatska says she wants to return to Ukraine...