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
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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The life (and death) stories that drive Andrea Campbell
Boston city council president has turned incredible adversity into strength
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