Dusty Christensen
ReporterDusty Christensen is an investigative reporter based in western Massachusetts. He currently teaches news writing and reporting at UMass Amherst.
As an international correspondent, he has covered topics ranging from Ukraine’s nuclear industry to U.S. retirees gentrifying small indigenous villages in Ecuador, reporting for outlets including The Nation magazine, WNYC radio, NPR, Haaretz and PBS.
As a local reporter in western Massachusetts, his work has appeared in newspapers including the Daily Hampshire Gazette — where he was a staff writer for five years — The Boston Globe, The Berkshire Eagle, the Greenfield Recorder and the Valley Advocate.
Reach him at dusty.christensen [at] protonmail.com.
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Voters on Tuesday will decide between incumbent Mayor Roxann Wedegartner and City Councilor Virginia “Ginny” DeSorgher. -
Capt. Manuel Reyes’ resignation came shortly before an outside investigation concluded he violated sexual harassment polices and other rules.
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NEPM's move away from a split format, with news and classical music sharing one station, mirrors the direction other public media outlets have moved over the years.
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The annual cookout hosted by Hampden County Sheriff Nick Cocchi is a tradition dating back to 1977, when his predecessor, Michael Ashe, first organized what would become a yearly clambake.
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New England Public Media is coming under criticism from members of the region’s Hispanic community after management laid off 20% of the nonprofit organization’s staff, including several prominent Latina and Latino journalists.
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Officials in Holyoke this week debated how best to move forward after an independent audit released last month found the police department poses a “substantial risk” to the city.
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A newly released independent audit of the Holyoke Police Department finds the HPD poses a “substantial risk” to the city it serves.
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Mayor Joshua Garcia has broken his silence about an NEPM investigation that revealed the city’s police department almost never disciplines officers whom civilians accuse of wrongdoing.
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Nearly a year after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a crowd of 800 packed into the Frederick C. Tillis Performance Hall at UMass Amherst to see the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine perform.
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A decade of civilian complaints against Holyoke police shows that of the 92 times an officer was named, the department upheld those allegations only three times. NEPM obtained the records after a sweeping police reform law in Massachusetts opened up law enforcement misconduct investigations to greater public scrutiny.
