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Tina Martin has joined WGBH News in Boston as a reporter, she has announced.

Tina tells New England One that she is "so happy to be telling stories in my hometown of Boston!"

She says that she "had time to consider what kind of stories I wanted to tell and how I wanted to tell them. WGBH is the perfect place for me to do my best work."

In her new role, she will be working for both the television and radio outlets of WGBH, as well as www.WGBHNews.org.

WGBH Radio general manager Phil Redo tells New England One that "Tina has a great deal of experience and a real talent for finding and telling compelling stories. Not only is she a talented broadcaster and writer but she grew up in Boston and her family still lives here, so her knowledge and context of the region is significant. She's a great addition to our fast growing newsroom."

Tina can be heard on WGBH-FM 89.7 during the "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered," and can be seen on WGBH-TV PBS 2/44 on Greater Boston.

Tina is also a freelance blogger for the Huffington Post, writing on a variety of topics. Prior to that, she spent 6 years as an anchor and reporter at WFSB-TV CBS 3 in Hartford, where she also hosted a segment called "Tina Around Town."

During her time at WFSB, she won several awards. She was the 2009-2010 winner of the Jacque Minnottee National Health Reporting Fellowship from the Radio Television Digital News Foundation. She was chosen as Best Local TV Reporter by readers of Hartford Magazine in the 2011 Best of Hartford Contest. Tina's series Tina Around Town was honored by the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists in the 2010 Excellence in Journalism contest.

Tina has also worked as a freelance reporter for "Worcester News Tonight" & New England Cable News; a freelance writer for WCVB-TV ABC 5; and an anchor and reporter for WMCT-TV. In addition, she spent 3 years at WATD-FM 95.5 radio in Greater Boston as a reporter and anchor. During her time at WATD, she was the first African American in the station's history to win an Associated Press award for her work on the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

Outside of television news, Tina has been the director of communications for the Massachusetts Office of Business Development; and the statewide communications manager for The Salvation Army.

Tina is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, and a member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

A native of Boston, Tina is a graduate of Emerson College where she received a Bachelor's degree in mass communication and broadcast journalism.


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