Cristela Guerra is a Senior Arts & Culture Reporter at WBUR since December 2018, known for cultivating a network of sources and providing nuanced reporting with historical context. Guerra has contributed nationally to NPR, focusing on significant topics such as the changing landscape of monuments. As a Nieman Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard from August 2023 to May 2024, Guerra continues to advance professional skills. Prior experience includes serving as a Staff Writer at Boston Globe Media, where coverage spanned features, breaking news, and social issues. Notably, Guerra produced an award-winning series on a family's struggle with mitochondrial disease while working at The News-Press. Guerra holds a B.S. in journalism from Florida International University, completed in 2007.
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90.9 WBUR-FM is Boston's NPR news station and the home of nationally syndicated programs, including On Point, Here & Now, Only A Game and Car Talk, which reach millions of listeners each week on NPR stations across the country and online. WBUR provides listeners with thorough coverage of local, national and international news from NPR, Public Radio International and the BBC, in addition to its own locally produced content. WBUR has a dedicated newsroom reporting original, local content throughout the day, as well as Radio Boston, a daily news magazine examining issues, news, people and places through a distinctly Boston lens. Through a dynamic exchange of ideas, WBUR serves and engages the local community as a source of news and information, providing insight and cultural context that unites a diverse, complex and changing world.
