A Conversation With Chad Finn – SPJ-NE x The Mass Media

Join SPJ New England and The Mass Media for the first installment of their four-part speaker series at UMass Boston, featuring Boston Globe Sportswriter Chad Finn and moderated by SPJ National President Chris Vaccaro. Finn joined the Globe as a sports copy editor and page designer in 2003, after a stint at the Concord Monitor, and then took over the sports media beat in 2009. He has won multiple awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors, including for a multimedia project in 2018 on LeBron James’s time in the NBA summer league in Boston. He has also worked on projects including an oral history of Larry Bird’s 60-point game and a profile of former Red Sox pitcher and broadcaster Dennis Eckersley for the Globe Magazine. His stories have been selected for the notables section of “The Year’s Best Sports Writing” anthologies in 2022 and 2023.

The event is open to UMass Boston students and members of the public. Click here to reserve a seat.

The event is the first in a four-part series featuring Boston Globe sportswriter Chad Finn, former CNN anchor Jim Acosta, Boston Globe Social Video Journalist Emily Sweeney and photographer Lou Jones. Through the speaker series, SPJ New England and The Mass Media aim to expand UMass Boston students’ access to journalism education opportunities, furthering SPJ’s mission to “inspire successive generations of talented individuals to become dedicated journalists.”

Update: This event was originally planned to feature retired Boston Globe sportswriter Bob Ryan. Due to an unexpected scheduling conflict, he is unable to attend.