WGBH Expands New Worcester Bureau

WORCESTER, MA — WGBH has hired two new reporters, with one exclusively covering Worcester County, the station announced this week.

Longtime western Massachusetts reporter Carrie Saldo will cover Worcester County. Saldo previously hosted the news magazine "Connecting Point" for Springfield-based New England Public Media, and was a former reporter at WAMC, the North Adams Transcript and the Berkshire Eagle. Saldo will be the first WGBH reporter covering the Worcester area exclusively.

Megan Woolhouse, a former Boston Globe and Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter, will lead coverage of K-12 education across the state, according to the station. She will be based out of the Brighton WGHB studios.

The new WGBH bureau will be located in a building along Federal Street — the home of the Worcester Telegram and Gazette until the mid-1970s — and broadcasts on 89.7 FM and on the WGBH website.

The expansion into New England's second-largest city was funded in part with grants from the C. Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation and the George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation, the station said in January.