Tom Melville

Tom Melville brings a lifetime of journalism, deeply-crafted storytelling and thought leadership to his work as a communications consultant. He has led two dynamic Boston newsrooms, creating award-winning journalism and driving public policy discussions that are central to our region’s future. As a consultant with eMedia Junction, he advises nonprofit and for-profit organizations on communications strategy, media relations, media training, content creation, storytelling and crisis communications. Melville spent nine years at Boston's NPR news station, WBUR, building the largest public radio station newsroom in the United States. He directed ground-breaking reporting teams covering politics, the environment, healthcare, education, the arts, business/innovation/technology and investigations. He joined WBUR as executive editor of content in 2011, was promoted to news director in 2013 and to executive news director in 2015. Previously he was news director at the nation’s largest regional news channel, New England Cable News (NECN.) In that role he was the network’s senior news and programming executive, leading NECN to the highest ratings in its history. At NECN, Melville rose through the ranks, from reporter to executive producer and to assistant news director before being named news director in 2008. He was executive producer and co-writer of a documentary film on hospice care, “Look for Me Here: 299 days in the life of Nora Lenihan,” which won more than a dozen regional, national and international awards, including television’s highest honor, the George Foster Peabody award.