Steve Junker
Managing Editor of NewsSteve Junker is Managing Editor of News at CAI.
He joined the radio station in 2007 and has filled a number of positions. He has been the local host for the afternoon news program All Things Considered. His reporting has been recognized with awards from the Associated Press and the Murrow Awards. He has overseen the station’s digital transformation, including growing its website and social media. As news director, he manages a growing newsroom that has won numerous awards for its coverage of issues ranging from education, to public health, to environment. He also hosts a live hour-long weekly program, The Local News Roundup, in which he speaks with editors and reporters from across the region about the week’s biggest stories. And he produces the weekly seasonal report on Cape Cod fishing action, The Fishing News.
A writer, a fisherman, an occasional boat builder, a recovering musician, a longtime chicken rancher, a beekeeper... Steve keeps busy in Woods Hole, where he lives with his wife and two children.
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This week: Want to take a tour of where the Army National Guard plans to build a machine gun range? We’ll tell you how. And a new weapon may be on the way to fight Lyme disease. Also, researchers are looking for 150 private wells on the Cape to study for PFAS. -
This week: Local leaders are asking the question, "How many machine gun ranges does the state need?" The controversial Twin Brooks development in Hyannis gets a key go-ahead from the state. And a new study finds PFAS contamination in local private drinking wells.
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This week: What does $26 million buy you? How about 120 acres of Brewster with plenty of waterfront. Also, local school districts are re-routing, due to a shortage of bus drivers. And the town of Barnstable pushes back on a wastewater lawsuit.
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This week: Flood insurance rates are changing for homeowners; the idea is to make them more fair. Booster shots are coming, and likely so is a COVID vaccine for kids 5-and-up: we have the local details. And Barnstable County may require all its employees to be vaccinated.
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The Fall Run is here. That means we’ve reached our last Fishing News of the season. But saltwater fishing isn't over — far from it.
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This week: Litigation in proliferation. We’ve got lawsuits in every direction: around the machine gun range, around offshore wind, right whales, PFAS, and erosion control on Nantucket. We survey the legal landscape, and a whole lot more.
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The best tuna fishing on the Atlantic coast is happening right now in waters off Cape Cod.
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While boat fishers chase albies this time of year, there's also plenty of good action to be had from docks and jetties as snapper blues show up.
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This week: A tornado touches down in Dennis. Single-use plastic bottles of water disappear from shelves in half a dozen Cape towns. And scientists want to know what sharks are doing up close to shore.
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It’s been called "the most important fish in the sea." And local fishermen love to see them show up this time of year, because they're an essential part of the fishing ecosystem.
