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WGBH News’ Phillip Martin Travels To India To Explore Caste Discrimination In America – Part 1
Phillip Martin, Senior Investigative Reporter for WGBH News, has been to India and back. In his new series, “Caste In America,” Martin delves into casteism, prejudice or discrimination on the grounds of caste, and its continued practice in the present day in the United States and Canada. We sat down with him to learn more and hear about his travels. -
WGBH Celebrates 30 Years of the World Wide Web
WGBH.org and local and national programs look back on 30 years of the World Wide Web with then and now screenshots of their websites over time. -
Innovation Hub And The Museum Of Science Form A Wicked Smart Partnership
The Museum and Kara Miller, host of "Innovation Hub," WGBH and PRI’s national radio show and podcast, have formed a unique local partnership called "Wicked Smart: Invented in the Hub," a permanent exhibition at the Museum dedicated to showcasing Boston-area innovators. Miller collaborates with the museum to feature inventions from these innovators in changing display cases that are seen by more than a million visitors. -
Behind The Scenes With Chef Joanne Chang To Kick-off The "You & Julia" Challenge
The WGBH Digital crew met with chef Joanne Chang at her Flour Bakery with one mission in mind: to launch our all-new You & Julia challenge. You & Julia is a monthly challenge, launched in partnership with the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts, where you get to be Julia Child, the legendary chef and host of WGBH's The French Chef. -
Watching The Oscars This Weekend? Look Out For The Work Of WGBH's Media Access Group
As you settle in to watch the 91st Academy Awards this Sunday night, keep an eye out for the work of our very own Media Access Group (MAG). MAG captioned and/or described 11 of this year's Oscar-nominated films, making them accessible to the 37 million Americans who are hearing-impaired. -
Local Fourth Graders Have Questions About The Government Shutdown; WGBH News Has Answers
Within hours of receiving a tweet from a local educator about the federal government shutdown, WGBH News invited the school's students to submit some of their questions. The Twitter exchange resulted in a list of questions, digital and radio features, and a field trip for the students to visit the WGBH newsroom in Boston's Brighton neighborhood. -
Meet The Master Behind Our Digital Mural
Andrea Morris, Visual Communications Manager here at WGBH, has been programming our digital mural for the past six years. You may have even seen it on your commute: our digital mural is the huge 30- by 45-foot screen that overlooks the Massachusetts Turnpike and entertains Bostonians as they make their way in and out of the city each day. Morris carefully curates the visuals that appear on the screen, changing them up every single day of the year to reflect program highlights at WGBH, major news events, seasons, holidays and other timely occurrences throughout the region and country. We sat down with Morris to learn more about the important work she does to engage with our community on the big screen. -
Meet WGBH's Own Tom Brady
Tom Brady of the New England Patriots might be the winningest quarterback of all time, but he's also a WGBH employee. That's right, the "other" Tom Brady works on the Creative team here at WGBH. We asked him what it's like living with his famous name in New England. -
Behind The Scenes With WGBH’s Media Access Group On Super Bowl Sunday
At 6pm on Super Bowl Sunday, viewers across the country will settle onto their couches surrounded by chips and buffalo wings to watch Super Bowl LIII. Here at WGBH, Janet Mahoney will settle into her office chair to provide a vital service: real-time closed captioning so that the 37 million people who are hearing-impaired can also enjoy the game.Through WGBH’s Media Access Group (MAG), Mahoney and a fellow stenographer in Western Massachusetts will “live-write” the full broadcast remotely, working as part of a team of specialists from other networks tasked with making the game accessible. While the captions are critical for the hearing-impaired community, they will also be used by viewers watching the game in noisy public spaces, including bars, airports and gyms—and will potentially be seen by more than 100 million people worldwide. -
Highlights: HSQS Celebrates 10 Years
Ten years ago, Jon Abbott, WGBH's President and CEO, approached Hillary Wells, who is now Executive Producer and Director of Youth Media, with the idea to develop an original statewide academic quiz show for Massachusetts high schools. That hallway conversation led to the creation of High School Quiz Show. With input and support from Mitchell Chester, the Massachusetts Education Commissioner at the time, and guidance from existing academic quiz shows across the country including WGBY's longstanding As Schools Match Wits in western Mass., Wells created a bracketed format that brought the excitement of sports into a program that put the spotlight squarely on academics.