Emily Sweeney

Emily Sweeney is an award-winning journalist who has been a staff reporter at The Boston Globe since 2001.

 

A lifelong Bostonian, Emily was born and raised in Dorchester, where she learned how to play ice hockey at the age of 6 and went on to skate on the boys' varsity team at Boston Latin School and for Northeastern University’s championship-winning women's hockey team.

 

After graduating from Northeastern in 1998, Emily began her journalism career as a reporter for the Bedford Minuteman. She later become the assistant editor at the Brookline Tab and then covered the education beat for the Waltham Daily News Tribune. The Globe hired her in 2001 and she now writes regularly for the Globe South section, covering local news on the South Shore. She is also a member of the Globe’s Speakers Bureau.

 

For her work in journalism, Emily has won three Globe Impact awards (2002 and 2004), first place honors in feature writing from the Massachusetts Press Association (2000), the American Heart Association award for feature writing (2000), and awards from the New England Press Association for business writing and investigative reporting. In 2004 she was nominated for the RFK Award, Heywood Broun Award and the Livingston Award for her reporting about developmentally disabled people living in a Waltham institution.

 

Emily is actively involved in the Society of Professional Journalists, and she currently serves as president of the New England SPJ chapter. In her spare time, she enjoys shooting and editing video for her videoblog and website, www.spikeyem.com.

Chapter President