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, Morning Edition, 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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The Massachusetts primary election includes three contested races in Hampden and Berkshire counties. -
Many Massachusetts Democrats participated in the Democratic National Convention held this week in Chicago, Illinois. -
Members unanimously gave the green light to a yearlong professional development plan —for themselves — focusing on school governance. Their progress is connected to a return of local control of the schools from the state. -
As Massachusetts education officials weigh the return of local control of the Holyoke Public Schools to the city, the school committee votes August 19 on a document that lays out a year long endeavor to build up their capacity in school governance. The district has been in receivership since 2015, one of three in the state. -
What do Americans have to say about election violence, after a gunman attempted to assassinate Donald Trump last weekend? The UMass Amherst Poll is about to do a national survey. -
After running a no-interest loan program for years, the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts said it is putting the program on hold while it re-evaluates how their loans affect student funding. -
While the fee to get a trash permit in the city of Northampton, Massachusetts, increased by 66%, the cost of recycling for municipalities has been increasing for several years. -
Fourth of July celebrations in western Massachusetts ranged from parades to historical presentations and fireworks. -
An "overwhelming" number of unionized faculty and staff voted no confidence in top administrators Michelle Shutt and Charles Jordan. That's after what the union calls a "scathing" and previously unreleased report from consultants hired to observe diversity and equity matter on campus. -
Each June, activists raise awareness of the effects of gun violence. One connected event, in Holyoke, was led by a survivor of a 1992 school shooting in Great Barrington.
