WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station, announced that Alison Bruzek has been hired to serve as associate producer for Radio Boston, and that Morning Edition field reporter Shannon Dooling has accepted a position of reporter in the newsroom as part of the New England News Collaborative.

WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station, announced story about the Lawrence, MA factory where the hair for Chewbacca’s costume is manufactured. Bruzek has also been crucial to Radio Boston’s special series on MCAS/PARCC and Evictions and the weeklong multi themed series on transportation. She previously worked as a freelance reporter for NPR's health blog Shots, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Popular Science and Scientific American, among others.

As a reporter, Dooling will serve on a team of public radio station reporters in the New England News Collaborative to report on issues of New England wide interest including energy, transportation and the environment, and will also continue focusing on reporting on immigration. Dooling previously reported and produced a series with David Boeri in El Salvador, investigating the violent forces that are motivating unaccompanied minors to come to the United States and also produced the award-winning series of reports with Morning Edition’s Bob Oakes from Vietnam, on the 40th anniversary of the end of the U.S. military intervention. Dooling joined WBUR fulltime in 2013 as a Morning Editionfield producer. Prior to that she was a freelance correspondent at New Hampshire Public Radio, an International Reporting Fellow at the University of British Columbia where she earned her Master's of Journalism, and served in communications for the United Way and Citizens Energy.

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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 GameandCar Talk, which reach millions of listeners each week on NPR stations across the United States 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 asRadio Boston, a daily news magazine examining issues, news, people and places through a distinctly Boston lens.