Deirdre Fernandes

Covering the higher education business and student loans for the Boston Globe. Contact me at [email protected].

[Aidan Ryan @aidanfitzryan]

The best thing about media's push into vertical video is that people can discover local journalism legends like @emilysweeney

[The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe]

Inside Boston’s Chinatown boundaries, some say there are more than 30 illegal gambling parlors. For seniors looking for community and a way to pass their day, the parlors can wreak havoc. What starts as recreation can turn into obsession. https://t.co/FxGMFx7189

[Boston Globe Spotlight Team @GlobeSpotlight]

A Middlesex County grand jury indicted Dr. Derrick Todd on charges that he sexually assaulted 11 patients.

This comes months after a Spotlight story detailing how hundreds of patients said they were abused by the renowned doctor. https://t.co/Zg3UBXbAEL

[Rebecca Ostriker @GlobeOstriker]

Introductions to women. Free flights. Business deals. Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Harvard run deeper than previously known. From @GlobeSpotlight: https://t.co/EDf0c17dE4 @fernandesglobe @TriciaNadolny

[Steph Machado @StephMachado]

The suspect in the Brown University mass shooting, 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente, took his own life tonight, Providence police chief Oscar Perez says https://t.co/KaHR1xFJzm

[Rebecca Ostriker @GlobeOstriker]

New details on how Larry Summers’s wife — a powerful Harvard professor — tapped Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen to boost her poetry project, while hiding or downplaying Epstein's involvement to staff. https://t.co/FlOekL2yMQ via @BostonGlobe @TriciaNadolny @fernandesglobe

[Joey Flechas @joeflech]

Larry Summers’ wife — a powerful Harvard professor — tapped Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen to boost her poetry project

✍️ @TriciaNadolny & @fernandesglobe

https://t.co/p7MD4udb7M

[Ellen Barry @EllenBarryNYT]

A Massachusetts jury was asked to convict a woman who killed her two boys. What they were not told: The prosecution's own expert found she was schizophrenic, psychotic at the time of the crime. Prison officials reached the same conclusion. But the jury did not hear it.

The Globe's Yvonne Abraham unpacks this shocking case.
https://t.co/Qk3C9Pq0li

[Samantha J. Gross @samanthajgross]

NEW: Governor Maura Healey has announced the closure of all hotel shelters and the end of a state of emergency she declared to address a housing crisis in August 2023. https://t.co/lkDIPBabQl #mapoli

[Brendan McCarthy @bmccarthynews]

And a hearty congrats to the countless colleagues who contributed to this work, as well the fine folks at @OCCRP, who partnered with us on several stories.

[Brendan McCarthy @bmccarthynews]

Campus activists, misidentified students, a jaywalker. Is this the deportation list the Trump administration is using?

https://t.co/qXRNW4mvBc (via @fernandesglobe @StephanieEbbert)

[Joey Flechas @joeflech]

Campus activists, misidentified students, a jaywalker. Is this the deportation list the Trump administration is using?

✍️ @StephanieEbbert & @fernandesglobe

https://t.co/2Cd6lzgYBG

[Aidan Ryan @aidanfitzryan]

Boston Globe Media and NESN have canceled the Globe's weekday TV show, which it launched in 2023, and the Globe laid off four employees. They will continue to partner on a weekly sports show, and the Globe plans to invest more in video across platforms. https://t.co/aB4FYVQ7ly

[Samantha J. Gross @samanthajgross]

Per Aidan's story, one departing employee from Globe Today had initially been hired as by the Globe to work on a weekly podcast that it later scrapped.

The employee's messages in some newsroom Slack channels were deleted and access to posting in them were temporarily disabled.

[John Hancock @Hancock_JohnD]

1/ New @BostonGlobe project: The Green Book's legacy in New England. Though long out of publication, pieces of New England history live in its pages. We mapped the listings, highlighting places such as Western Lunch Box, Slade's, and The Pates Hotel. https://t.co/P3Ml8w96nf

[Matt Stout @MattPStout]

NEW: @MassGovernor says the state will perform criminal background checks on each of the thousands of people staying in its emergency shelter system, saying she ordered checks "last spring" but they weren't performed for unknown reasons. https://t.co/46xzZV7pLq w/ @samanthajgross

[Matt Stout @MattPStout]

NEW: @MassGovernor’s administration acknowledged Thursday that it has not been conducting full criminal background checks on people staying in emergency shelters, despite repeated assurances that the state’s vetting process was thorough. https://t.co/XSl4Nhogac via @BostonGlobe

[Stephanie Ebbert @StephanieEbbert]

What’s happening in state migrant shelters? A lot, according to public records the Globe requested nine months ago and Gov. Healey’s administration just recently released. https://t.co/ELnFq8nHBq

[Rebecca Ostriker @GlobeOstriker]

“We think we have a plan…and then you are free at last and can take a well-deserved distribution”: MPT’s CFO to Steward CEO. Steward Health a cautionary tale in private equity's push into health care ⁦@GlobeSpotlight⁩ https://t.co/djmrv8KJTd

[Deirdre Fernandes @fernandesglobe]

How one Haitian migrant family defied the odds and secured a home of their own in Boston by @samanthajgross https://t.co/EAx09WEErC via @BostonGlobe