We’re happy to announce that beginning this Monday, November 18th, Rupa Shenoy will be joining NECIR and WGBH News. She will be the first Investigative reporter hired as the result of the new partnership between WGBH and The New England Center for Investigative Reporting.
Rupa joins us from Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) where she has been a full time reporter for the past 4 years and from where she has freelanced for NPR for the past two.
Rupa will be filing both original investigative stories as well as doing radio and TV versions of stories reported by NECIR reporters Beth Daley and Jenifer McKim. The goal is to grow local investigative journalism on all available platforms.
Before joining MPR, Rupa was a reporter at the Chicago Bureau of the Associated Press. Before that, she spent 5 years as both a general assignment and investigative reporter for the Chicago Reporter ( a magazine ) and The Daily Herald ( a suburban Chicago newspaper ).
Rupa has a Masters of Science in broadcast journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School and a Bachelor’s degree in journalism and Spanish from the University of Iowa. Last year she was an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism.
She has been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists and won a Peter Lisagor award from the Chicago Headline Club. In 2008 she was selected to be a Carnegie-Knight News Fellow and between 2002 and 2004, she was a Robert R. McCormick Tribune Fellow in Urban Journalism, based in Chicago.