Jill Kaufman
Reporter/Producer/HostJill Kaufman has been a reporter and host at NEPM since 2005. Before that she spent 10 years at WBUR in Boston, producing The Connection with Christopher Lydon, reporting and hosting. In the months leading up to the 2000 presidential primary in New Hampshire, Jill hosted NHPR’s daily talk show The Exchange. Right before coming to NEPM, Jill was an editor at PRX's The World.
She can be reached at jill_kaufman [at] nepm.org.
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Even professors of classic literature enjoy a night out at the movies, and when it comes to the retelling of one of the most famous Greek poems, no matter their opinion of Christopher Nolan's latest film, they agree — the conversation about ancient texts has never been hotter. -
Flyers advertising services, concerts and lost pets have long been part of urban culture. That's despite ordinances banning them. In Northampton, Massachusetts, a tension has been brewing in the last few months around its no-posting ordinance established in the 1970s. There's a movement to change it. -
A native of Springfield, Massachusetts, is building what she says is the region's first alumni organization for Historically Black Colleges and Universities or HBCUs. -
Across cultures, quilts are given as gifts to mark life transitions, like birth and marriage. The quilts in the Transmissions Quilts Project are made for transgender people, by artists who are transgender. -
Daniel Nye is the new Veterans Services Director in Northampton, Massachusetts. Nye and the outgoing director Steven Connor say many details of the job have changed over the past two decades, but not the mission to help. -
Award winning children's book author Jane Yolen has died. The longtime Hatfield, Massachusetts residents was 87-years-old.
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As Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, prepares to sell its property, the town of Amherst is considering how best to rezone the land. -
Members of Massachusetts Water Supply Protection Trust met this week to discuss lessons-learned after last month's small engine plane crash near the Quabbin Reservoir — a major source of drinking water for Greater Boston. -
Hampshire College officials said they reached "in principle" an agreement with a philanthropic partner to provide a loan that will support the wind down of campus operations. -
Springfield's 5th Pride Parade will be held Saturday, kicking off from Springfield Technical Community College and ending in downtown Springfield.
