Joan Vennochi

op-ed columnist, Boston Globe

Joan Vennochi writes regularly about national and local politics, and also covers issues relating to business, law and culture. Before joining the op-ed page, she wrote a column on* the Globe*'s business page. Vennochi was City Hall bureau chief, State House bureau chief, and covered national politics for *the Globe*. She began her career at the paper as a researcher on the Spotlight Team, the newspaper's investigative unit. She shared in a Pulitzer Prize awarded to the team for local investigative reporting. Vennochi is a graduate of Boston University and Suffolk Law School.