Michael Jonas

Executive editor Michael Jonas is one of two editors overseeing CommonWealth Beacon coverage and editing the work of reporters and opinion contributors. His own reporting has a particular focus on politics, education, and criminal justice issues.

Michael has worked in journalism in Massachusetts since the early 1980s. Before joining the CommonWealth staff in 2001, he was a contributing writer for the magazine for two years. His story on Boston youth outreach workers was selected for a PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. His CommonWealth work has also won multiple awards from Capitol Beat for state government coverage and from the New England Newspaper & Press Association for work in several areas.

Prior to coming to CommonWealth, for 15 years Michael wrote a weekly column on local politics for the Boston Globe. Michael has also worked in broadcast journalism. In the late 1980s 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 a weekly news magazine program on WHDH-TV (Ch. 7) in Boston.

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