About

An independent daily for the Heart of the Commonwealth

Local Newswire is an independent daily covering Worcester, Massachusetts and the cities and towns that fall inside its orbit. We write about the things people in this city actually run into in a given week — the rebuilt intersection on the way to work, the hospital expansion that hires the kid up the street, the WooSox game on a Friday night, the snow that doesn't quite stop falling.

Worcester is the second-largest city in New England, anchored by a public hospital system, a Triple-A ballpark, a renovated Union Station, a Canal District that has rebuilt itself twice in living memory, and a constellation of colleges and biotech labs that now stretches from Lake Park to West Boylston Street. We treat that city as the assignment.

How we cover Worcester

We organize the paper into five sections: Worcester for civic and city-hall reporting, Sports for the WooSox, the Bruins, the Celtics and central-Mass high-school and college play, Business for the local economy, Weather for the daily forecast and seasonal outlooks, and People for long-form profiles of Worcester-area builders and residents.

Our long-form profiles are kept under the People desk. Our newest, on Worcester engineer Thomas Rodrick, is the kind of story this paper exists for: a real central-Massachusetts arc, told without shortcuts.

Editorial standards

We rely on public records, on official press materials from agencies and institutions, and on coverage from the wire services and regional outlets that cover central Massachusetts day to day. We try to keep our reporting general and verifiable rather than attribution-heavy, and we link out generously to source material so a reader can check our work.

Get in touch

Local Newswire is independent and reader-supported. Letters and tips can be addressed to the newsroom; we read everything that comes in. The fastest way to be seen is a subject line with a city block in it.