Contributor

Phillip W.d. Martin

Senior Reporter, WGBH News

Since joining WGBH in the spring of 2010, Phillip Martin has reported on terrorism, human trafficking in southern New England, the Boston Marathon bombing, gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, carbon offset schemes, police shootings, training and race, the Occupy movement and the fishing industry in New England, among other topics. On WGBH­-TV, he is a regular panelist for Basic Black and an occasional panelist for Beat the Press, and hosted the World Compass 2012 presidential primary coverage. He is a Senior Fellow with the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and a 2012 International Center for Journalists Ford Foundation Fellow. In addition, Phillip was executive producer for Lifted Veils Productions, a nonprofit public radio journalism project dedicated to exploring issues that divide and unite society. His Color Initiative-- ­­an occasional series of reports about the global impact of skin color ­­aired on The World, a co-­production of WGBH, the BBC and PRI. Phillip has worked as a supervising senior editor for NPR and was NPR’s first national race-relations correspondent, from 1998 to 2001. In 1995, in his role as a senior producer, he helped create the BBC/PRI's The World. He has received various journalism honors, including a 2014 national Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative journalism (Underground Trade), 2014 Clarion Awards, a 2012 PASS Award, a 2012 regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Ongoing Coverage (team award), the Margaret and Hans Rey WGBH producer of the year award, a 2011 regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting, the 2010 Asian American Journalists Award for National Radio Reporting, the 2008 Ruben Salazar Award and the 2005 NABJ Radio Documentary Award. He was an adjunct professor at Brandeis University's graduate Heller School of Public Policy. Phillip was a Harvard University Nieman Fellow from 1997 to 1998 and a U.S.­Japan Media Fellow in 1997. He earned a master's degree in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and studied international protection of human rights law at Harvard Law School as well as journalism at the University of California at Berkeley in the Program for Minority Journalists.