Kerry Kavanaugh anchors at Boston 25 News and leads their investigative unit. She’s from Medford, went to BC, and got exactly one callback out of the 80-odd VHS resume tapes she mailed around the country — from a one-person bureau in Montana. She took it sight unseen.
We talk about the road back to Boston through Des Moines, Tampa and Atlanta, and about covering Sandy Hook and the Marathon bombing, which she says stay with you. She explains why she keeps pulling threads on stories most reporters file and forget, including a domestic violence job-protection loophole that still hasn’t been closed. She also talks about going public with IVF in 2018 and a hysterectomy this past spring, and why she thinks women’s health is still under-discussed. We finish on the shrinking of local news and what’s lost when nobody’s covering the town hall meeting.
Stay wicked, Boston.
