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: The owner of the Pilgrim Nuclear Plant says it is applying for a permit to dump radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay. Also, we’ve got details on the new Sagamore bridge – where’s its likely to go, and how we’ll get on and off of it. And Massachusetts lobstermen gather in Hyannis for a trade show like no other. -
This week: The state rolls out ten options for connecting the new Bourne and Sagamore bridges to local roads. Also, three hundred islanders travel to the statehouse to demand action on the housing crisis. And: the season’s first right whale mother-calf pair arrives.
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This week: Beginning today, you can bet on sports on your phone in Massachusetts. Also, Brewster votes down a proposed boardwalk to Wing Island. And, Cape Cod's bridges replacement project gets a shoutout in the President’s proposed budget—but how much will it really mean?
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This week: Local people with connections to Ukraine mark one year since Russia invaded the country. Also, trials of a Lyme disease vaccine have been halted on both Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. And we say goodbye to the Pioneer Array.
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This week: Independence House in Barnstable gets a $3.46 million grant to further its mission combating domestic violence. A new report underscores the need to protect the Cape’s dwindling “undisturbed land”. And issues at the shuttered Pilgrim nuclear plant raise concerns, while almost ten thousand people sign a petition asking the decommissioning company Holtec not to discharge radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay.
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This week: What’s a school district to do when it can’t pay its staff enough to live nearby? Provincetown and now Nantucket are facing that problem. And: a neighborhood at the foot of the Sagamore Bridge finds itself in the path of progress. Also, members of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe gather to vote this weekend.
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This week: The region braces for a blast of arctic weather. Nantucket schools are shut down by a cyber attack. And the contentious proposed 312-unit development at the former Twin Brooks golf course gets an approval from the Cape Cod Commission.
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This week: Now we know where they’re going: the location of the new Cape bridges has been drawn on a map. Also, water quality across the region continues to decline — it’s not just an environmental worry, it’s also an economic issue. And say hello to the "Barnstable" ferry.
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This week: Vineyard Wind pulls ashore two cables, and that's not all: it’s marking progress in building the nation’s first utility-sized offshore wind farm right off our coast. And the Steamship Authority deals with a crash of its reservation system as passengers tried to book ferry passage for Nantucket summer.
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This week: the Cape, islands, and South Coast are moved into a "high" COVID designation. The renovation of Nauset High School wins a big endorsement at the ballot box. And the controversial Twin Brooks development project moves a critical step forward.
