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Ted Reinstein is best known in New England as a journalist and reporter for “Chronicle,” Boston’s celebrated—and America’s longest-running, locally-produced—TV newsmagazine. While he appears occasionally in the studio at the anchor desk or delivering an opinion commentary, it’s out in the field where viewers are most familiar seeing Ted. From every corner of New England, he’s found the offbeat, the unique, the moving, and the just plain memorable, all while telling the enduringly colorful stories of the region’s people and places.

Ted has also been a regular contributor for WCVB’s political roundtable show, “On The Record,” and has been a member of the station’s editorial board since 2010. In 2002, he was part of a “Chronicle” team which received a national DuPont-Columbia Broadcast Journalism Award for coverage of Boston’s controversial Big Dig, and how such massive public works projects compare around the world. In 2018, he received an Emmy Award for his story on the “Good Night Lights” phenomenon in Providence, Rhode Island.

Elsewhere on television, Ted hosted the premiere season of the Discovery Channel’s Popular Mechanics show, and brought viewers up-close to some of America’s most iconic landmarks for the HGTV network’s special, “Lighthouses.” For the Travel Channel’s photo-adventure series, FreezeFrame, he explored Hawaii’s volcanoes, the caves of Puerto Rico, and the South Pacific islands of Tahiti.

His first book, A New England Notebook: One Reporter, Six States, Uncommon Stories (Globe Pequot Press/2013) was selected by National Geographic Traveler as a “Best Pick.” He is also the author of Wicked Pissed: New England’s Most Famous Feuds (GPP/2015), and co-author, with his wife, Anne-Marie Dorning, of New England’s General Stores: Exploring an American Classic (GPP/2017). Ted’s most recent book is Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball’s Color Barrier (Lyons Press/2021).

Ted received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Brandeis University. He has two daughters, and lives just west of Boston.

Categories: Author and Writer, Current Events, News and Politics, Local to New England

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• Foods (Wicked Good), Feuds (Wicked Mad), & Nerds (Wicked Smaht)
  Only through 20 years of Chronicle's reporting around New England would these three topics all come together in a fun, "news-you-can-use" kind of way. Good eats, good stories on Sox-Yankee rivalry (not to mention the two oldest general stores), and the best MIT pranks of all-time.

• Politics, from Boston to Washington
  Free-wheeling look at contemporary issues and historical anecdotes, with plenty of levity and lots of Q&A...

• Plus, The Collectors, and the Craftsmen...
  New Englanders collect more things than anyone else, and Ted Reinstein's met a lot of them: from cars, to fire hydrants, Big Foot findings. New Englanders are also famous for making things--but forget duck decoys or Nantucket baskets--how about genuine old-fashioned outhouses or an authentic (and useable!) suit of medieval armor?

• The Pastimes & the Record-Setters
  Unusual New England pastimes like pigeon, lobsterboat, and belt-sander racing, to atlatl and boomerang-throwing. Plus, a look at some of the region's lesser-known record-setters, like the only man to swim a double-crossing of Lake Winnipesaukee, or ride fourteen miles on one bicycle wheel.

• New England Profiles
  From Vermont's famous Fred Tuttle, to Grover Cleveland's grandson, to the first female brick-layer, to Boston Mayor Tom Mennino, an up-close and personal visit from all over New England with some of the most interesting people ever featured on "Chronicle."

• Who Knew?
  Thirty minutes (or more) featuring highlights of Ted Reinstein's long-running "Chronicle" series, "Who Knew?" Truly head-scratching and little-known facts from (way) off the beaten path in New England, woven into a humorous commentary. From a visit to the smallest town in the smallest county in the smallest state, to the biggest book in the world--all right under your nose, all right here in New England.

• Only in New England
  A fun, funny, and informative look at some of what you'll find here--and only here--in New England, from covered bridges, to the oldest baseball diamond, to the smallest state capital, to the little Rhode Island company that makes most of the world's communion wafers...

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