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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A University of Massachusetts student involved in “Students for Justice in Palestine” was suspended in December, according to his attorneys. Now he is suing the school, alleging his First Amendment rights were violated. -
Around western Massachusetts, the sound of snow blowers and shoveling were a constant on Monday. In the frigid cold at one household, roommates took turns digging out cars. It turns out, their is household of public transportation bus drivers - each with professional training to drive on weather days like these. -
The Trump administration is continuing to attack New England’s liberal arts colleges, including those in western Massachusetts. Among the criticisms — they are too “woke" and tuition is too high. Reporter Diti Kohli from The Boston Globe recently asked ten school presidents to defend themselves. -
Fans of Dolly Parton have a new biography to dive into. In “Ain't Nobody’s Fool," western Mass. writer Martha Ackmann lays out Parton's life from an impoverished childhood to stardom. -
Tina Packer, who in 1978, founded Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., died over the weekend. -
Residents in western Massachusetts towns that surround the Quabbin Reservoir want better financial compensation and a bigger role in making decisions related to the water resource. -
The first day of inter was Sunday December 21, the time of year in the Northern hemisphere when the Earth's axis is tilts most strongly away from the sun. -
Two apartment fires in Holyoke, Mass., in two days have displaced dozens of residents, according to city officials. -
In the new novel "All that Life Can Afford," by Emily Everett, an American graduate student from western Massachusetts goes off to London. Anna is eager to leave the U.S. and steep herself in the land of English literature and write her dissertation on Jane Austen. But she finds, as much as she tries, she can't leave her true self behind in the states.
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Food banks around the U.S. have been busier than usual in the past month. Produce for soup kitchens and pantries comes from several sources, including fields that are gleaned of excess crops, after farmers finish their harvest.
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