Joan Elizabeth Vennochi (born January 27, 1953) is an American newspaper columnist. She specializes in local and national politics at ''

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''. With Stephen A. Kurkjian, Alexander B. Hawes Jr., Nils Bruzelius, and Robert M. Porterfield she won the 1980

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Biography

Vennochi earned her BS degree from the

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in 1975 and later earned her JD degree from the

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, the latter institution where she is also a part-time faculty member and senior lecturer. Vennochi works as a columnist for the

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page for the ''Boston Globe''. Previously she covered national and

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politics along with writing a business column. With recording.

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External links

Joan Vennocchi
brief biography at ''The Boston Globe'' (archived 2007-11-07)
Vennochi on big dig politics
(2006) 1953 births American columnists The Boston Globe people Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winners Boston University College of Communication alumni Suffolk University Law School alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Living people American women columnists 21st-century American women {{US-journalist-1950s-stub