Joan Elizabeth Vennochi (born January 27, 1953) is an American newspaper columnist. She specializes in local and national politics at ''
The Boston Globe
''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...
''. With
Stephen A. Kurkjian, Alexander B. Hawes Jr., Nils Bruzelius, and Robert M. Porterfield she won the 1980
Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting
The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded since 1953, under one name or another, for a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series in a U.S. news publicat ...
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Biography
Vennochi earned her BS degree from the Boston University College of Communication
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Boston University College of Communication (COM) is a communication school at Boston University. It was founded in 1947 as the School of Public Relations. The College of Communication is the oldest public relations school in the United ...
in 1975 and later earned her JD degree from the Suffolk University Law School
Suffolk University Law School (also known as Suffolk Law School) is the private, non-sectarian law school of Suffolk University located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, across the street from the Boston Common and the Freedom Trail, two block ...
, the latter institution where she is also a part-time faculty member and senior lecturer.
Vennochi works as a columnist for the Op-ed
An op-ed, short for "opposite the editorial page", is a written prose piece, typically published by a North-American newspaper or magazine, which expresses the opinion of an author usually not affiliated with the publication's editorial board. O ...
page for the ''Boston Globe''. Previously she covered national and politics along with writing a business column.[ With recording.]
References
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
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