Michael Jonas Executive Editor, CommonWealth
Michael Jonas has worked in journalism in Massachusetts since the early 1980s. Before joining the CommonWealth staff in early 2001, he was a contributing writer for the magazine for two years. His cover story in CommonWealth’s Fall 1999 issue on Boston youth outreach workers was selected for a PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.
Michael got his start in journalism at the Dorchester Community News, a community newspaper serving Boston’s largest neighborhood, where he covered a range of urban issues. Since the late 1980s, he has been a regular contributor to the Boston Globe. For 15 years he wrote a weekly column on local politics for the Boston Sunday Globe’s City Weekly section.
Michael has also worked in broadcast journalism. In 1989, he was a co-producer for “The AIDS Quarterly,” a national PBS series produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, and in the early 1990s, he worked as a producer for “Our Times,” a weekly magazine program on WHDH-TV (Ch. 7) in Boston.
Michael lives in Dorchester with his wife and their two daughters.
ARTICLES By Michael Jonas
With education bill-signing, cheers and challenges
State now must maintain funding and ensure it’s well spent
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Tackling traffic, fixing the T, and saving the planet
Innovation economy attempting to take on the challenge
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Long-awaited education funding bill unveiled
Calls for 'unprecedented' $1.4 billion boost in state aid, much of it to poorer communities
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The ‘conscience of Boston’
Rev. Michael Haynes, Roxbury icon, MLK colleague and contemporary, dies at 92
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‘No more real newspaper’ in Worcester
Cuts turning Telegram into a ‘ghost newspaper’
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Alex Morse wants to change how Washington works
Holyoke mayor says Richie Neal wields power, but for whom?
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Riley casts vision for education change
Says 'deeper learning,' new assessments should be part of next chapter
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Boston taps high-stakes testing opponent
New superintendent opposes 10th grade MCAS graduation requirement
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Local accountability in schools lacking, says report
Study urges stronger goal-setting by districts and schools
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