*Commonwealth Journal is now available as a weekly Podcast two weeks after it airs on WUMB. If you would like to listen to each week's program or would like to subscribe to the Podcast, click this link*
Commonwealth Journal is an award winning
weekly, half-hour public affairs radio program that discusses
topics of particular interest to Massachusetts listeners through
an exploration of Massachusetts current events, issues, culture, history, politics, art
and science.
Segments may be about farming in New England, family
ritual and consumer culture, what students are doing at the
state's science fair, Boston's Haitian community, or the cleaning
of the Charles River. Commonwealth Journal also looks at
the people and events of Massachusetts past, such as the life of
Charles Sumner, Massachusetts' anti-slavery Senator; the King
Phillip's War; the lives and times of McLean Hospital; the story
behind Massachusetts' diners; or, a discussion about the history
of marriage. Commonwealth Journal informs the state's
residents about those stories that have shaped the state and its
people, while providing a Massachusetts perspective to issues of
national and international concern.
Over the past six years, Commonwealth
Journal has won First Place Public Service and Public Affairs program awards from
the Associated Press of
Massachusetts & Rhode Island, the Massachusetts
Broadcasters Association, the American Cancer Society, the Silver Microphone Awards and the
Agricultural Communicators in Education. The program also won a
second place national award from the Public Radio News Directors
Association.
The program is produced by WUMB
Radio at the University of
Massachusetts Boston. Funding for Commonwealth Journal
is provided by Blue Cross Blue
Shield of Massachusetts.
