Jesse Remedios

Jesse is an award-winning journalist. He's currently a podcast and multimedia producer for The Boston Globe.

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The Boston Globe • 1st April 2024

The Parent Trap

When Nimish left Nepal for college in the United States, he expected some serious challenges, like adjusting to a new culture and studying in a new language. Finding love was not top-of-mind. But as he got older and started to date more, Nimish’s romantic life became his biggest source of anxiety. Because with each budding relationship came an all-consuming question: How do I explain this to my parents? Email us at loveletters@boston.com.

The Boston Globe • 2nd February 2024

We Found Love, Part 1: I Met My Husband in Prison

The first chapter of “We Found Love,” a three-part miniseries exploring how romantic love and partnership run up against – and sometimes transcend – the criminal justice system.

The Boston Globe • 2nd February 2024

Bonus: New Hampshire GOP Voters Make Their Choices

Boston Globe politics reporter Emma Platoff introduces us to three New Hampshire GOP voters as they decide how to cast their ballots. Their views are nuanced, idiosyncratic, and molded by unique life experiences, but they also reveal a lot about where this year’s primary could be heading.

The Boston Globe • 2nd February 2024

Believe Dat! Boston’s Overlooked Hip-Hip History

Boston is not exactly famous for its contributions to Black music and culture. If anything, many people associate the city with rock — and racism. But music historian Dart Adams says Boston has long had a flourishing Black music scene.

The Boston Globe • 2nd February 2024

‎Ah, Those Opportunity Costs

A portrait of two daters in their 20s. When you date as much as they do, the expenses add up quickly. So how do they do it? And what happens when the bill comes?

WBUR • 3rd March 2022

A Mini Mississippi In Mass. May Help Save New Orleans From Rising Seas

Mark Twain said the Mississippi "will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise." Garret Dunn is doing his best, anyways.

The National Catholic Reporter • 3rd March 2022

Trials of Nonviolence: The Kings Bay Plowshares Story

Why did seven Catholic peace activists surrender their freedom, and risk their lives, to break into a U.S. nuclear submarine base?

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The Boston Globe • 13th February 2023

Here’s why Boston doesn’t have an elected school committee

A new proposal to return to the days of an elected School Committee has reignited a long-simmering debate.

Medium • 13th February 2022

Journeymen: The Kids From Clifford Park

Once, a couple was having sex on the field; many times, overdoses beside the field; and always, like autumn leaves peppered across the grass, there were needles.

WBUR • 16th June 2021

The Seaport Cost Billions To Build. What Will It Take To Save It?

When former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh took the stage at a 2017 ribbon-cutting in the Seaport District, he spoke with pride of a neighborhood “hitting its stride.”

“The Seaport,” Walsh said, “tells the story of our city.”

WBUR • 2nd March 2021

Road Salt Is A Problem For Rivers. Adding Water May Be A Solution

A three-story-tall gate creaks open, and reveals a warehouse filled to the brim with brown crystals. It’s a mountain of rock salt.

WBUR • 15th March 2021

With New Complaint, Fossil Fuel Divestment Proponents Shift From Moral To Legal Ground

Activists from Boston College and Harvard University are making a new argument in their fight agains climate change: Their schools’ fossil fuel investments aren’t just immoral, they’re illegal.

Boston University News Service • 26th January 2021

Is struggling press self-censoring?

Over the course of six months in 2020, Colorado endured its three largest wildfires in history.

But some journalists are intentionally leaving that climate context out of their wildfire coverage. Their reasoning? The term “climate change."

WBUR • 3rd February 2022

Want More Electric Cars? First We Need More Places To Charge Them

Electric cars have been making quite a buzz recently.

President Biden has pledged to replace the entire U.S. federal fleet with electric vehicles. General Motors says it will sell only zero-emission vehicles – i.e., electric ones – by 2035. And the Massachusetts legislature has again sent a a sweeping climate bill to Gov. Charlie Baker, shooting for net-zero carbon emissions by mid-century and a 50% reduction in emissions by 2030. Baker says that to hit that 2030 mark, the state will need to ge

National Catholic Reporter • 16th April 2020

Experts question surgeon general who talks God's 'plan' with pandemic

The nation's top doctor wants you to know "that God always has a plan." Experts say that's problematic.

National Catholic Reporter • 26th February 2019

Catholic connection to blackface goes back to the racist act's start

Recent revelations in Virginia involving the governor and attorney general, both of whom have admitted to using blackface in the 1980s, have brought national attention to the long history of blackface minstrelsy in this country. Little noticed in that history is the Catholic Church's connection to the offensive practice.

I am currently a podcast and multimedia producer for The Boston Globe.

My work has been featured on NPR, WBUR, and National Catholic Reporter. I have been recognized for multiple national awards, including winning two Public Media Journalists Association awards and being named a finalist for a Religion News Association award.

I received my master's degree in journalism from Boston University, where I had the honor of being a Martin Luther King Jr. Fellow.

Before that, I spent two years in Washington, D.C., covering climate change and religious activism for National Catholic Reporter, an independent newspaper covering the Catholic Church.

I grew up in Arlington, Virginia, studied history at Duke University, and am a proud a Cameron Crazie. I also spent my first year out of college working with some amazing third graders in D.C. through the AmeriCorps City Year program. I'd love to introduce you to some of them on my multimedia website here.

You can reach me at jesseremedios@gmail.com or on Twitter @jcremedios.

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