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A weekly podcast from The Boston Globe on what’s bubbling in Rhode Island news. In-depth interviews with newsmakers, perspective and analysis from Globe Rhode Island reporters, and intimate conversations with community members across the state.
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Signup to Generate a PitchA weekly podcast from The Boston Globe on what’s bubbling in Rhode Island news. In-depth interviews with newsmakers, perspective and analysis from Globe Rhode Island reporters, and intimate conversations with community members across the state.
Rhode Island Report is hosted by The Boston Globe. The show has published 288 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Saying goodbye" (3 September 2026, 1 minute), "Exploring Providence's abandoned East Side train tunnel" (27 August 2026, 15 minutes), and "Move over, Taylor Swift. Rhode Island has another celebrity: Dawn the Duck." (13 August 2026, 13 minutes).
Rhode Island Report publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 24 minutes across 288 episodes.
Booking probability for Rhode Island Report is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Rhode Island Report requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Rhode Island Report's contact route on record: verified email.
The Boston Globe hosts Rhode Island Report, a news podcast with 288 episodes published.
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Episode #281
Rhode Island Report's final weekly episode aired last week. We'll no longer be posting episodes on a regular basis. But, you can still find more of our reporting at Globe.com/RI . Thank you to our guests and listeners...
Episode #280
If you’ve lived in Rhode Island long enough, you’ve heard about Providence’s abandoned train tunnel. The last train passed through in the early 1980s. Since then, it’s been a site for graffiti, art installations...
Episode #278
She made headlines across the country during the World Cup, when she marched at the front of a Tartan Army parade in Providence. She has also appeared at events ranging from New England Patriots games to local...
Episode #277
For decades, Rhode Island's Tad Devine has been one of the Democratic Party's most accomplished political consultants. Now, the chief strategist behind Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign has written a new book...
Episode #275
On July 1, a new Rhode Island law made it possible for victims of sexual abuse as children to sue institutions that didn’t protect them, even if the statute of limitations has expired. So far, more than 50 lawsuits have...
Episode #274
States use tax policy to compete with each other for businesses and jobs. But does it work? Professor Adam Myers from Providence College recently completed a book titled “Coordination Failure” that explores this...
Episode #273
In May, the Rhode Island House of Representatives elected a new leader. Chris Blazejewski, a Providence Democrat, is now House Speaker, a role many call the most powerful job in state government. He joins host Edward...
Episode #272
Our team is taking some time off for the summer, so we're bringing you an episode from 2025 about Rhode Island's state coral. Astrangia poculata, also known as Northern Star Coral, isn't like those colorful reefs down...
Episode #271
Our team is taking some time off for the summer, so we're bringing you this episode about Rhode Island's 'clamarati." Every year, they visit clam cake shacks all over the state, sampling as many deep-fried clam cakes as...
Episode #270
Our team is taking a little time off for the summer, so in honor of Pride month, we're reupping this episode about Queer Hikes- a Southern New England group that started five years ago and continues to meet almost every...
Episode #269
Survivors of child sexual abuse in Rhode Island can now sue institutions that enabled or covered it up, even if previous time limits have expired. That’s thanks to a law just signed by Governor Dan McKee.Jim Scanlan has...
Episode #268
Five years ago this month, for the very first episode of this podcast, we interviewed then-US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, former governor of Rhode Island. Now she's back on the Rhode Island Report, to talk about...
Episode #267
In their first head-to-head debate in the Democratic primary for mayor of Providence, incumbent Mayor Brett Smiley and state Representative David Morales took questions from Globe Rhode Island’s Steph Machado on rent...
Episode #266
Host Edward Fitzpatrick gets out of the studio to join Dr. Judson Brewer, of the Brown Mindfulness Center, as he leads students and researchers on a run up one of the steepest hills in Providence. They get together to...
Episode #265
Globe Rhode Island’s founder of The Food Club, Alexa Gagosz, recently hosted the first Food Club Live, a series of one-on-one "fun and honest" conversations with some of the biggest names in Providence’s food scene...
Episode #264
A flawed bridge, frayed nerves, fraught politics – this has been a daily reality for Rhode Islanders since the abrupt closure of the Washington Bridge westbound in 2023. But it’s not the first time the state has...
Episode #263
Last week’s US Supreme Court ruling on Louisiana’s election map has gutted the landmark federal Voting Rights Act. That’s according to Shahidah Ali, the Political Action Committee Chair for the Rhode Island Coalition of...
Episode #262
You might have heard of the Green Book, a guidebook that was widely circulated from the 1930s through the 1960s to help Black travelers find welcoming places across the country to stay, eat, and fill up their cars. But...
Episode #261
The biggest race in Rhode Island this election season is the Democratic primary for governor. Incumbent Daniel McKee is facing a rematch with former CVS executive Helena Foulkes, whom he narrowly defeated in the 2022...
Episode #260
In the Ocean State, surrounded by water, we’re vulnerable to climate change and in particular, sea level rise. We’re seeing the effects everywhere – from the collapse of part of the Newport Cliff Walk to the erosion of...
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Bernie Sanders’ 2016 chief campaign strategist, Devine Mulvey Longabaugh Media
Business executive and former gubernatorial candidate
student affairs professional, Huntsman Mental Health Institute at the University of Utah
Co-founder and CEO, Talking Heads
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