A former high editor on the on-line information publication MassLive began Tuesday as the top of communications for the state’s secretariat targeted on housing, which has discovered itself on the middle of an emergency shelter disaster.
Noah Bombard, who labored at MassLive for the previous 9 years, will report back to former Worcester City Manager Ed Augustus, who Gov. Maura Healey tapped earlier this yr to guide the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities.
The housing division has discovered itself on the forefront of the state’s efforts to fight suffocating housing prices and handle an inflow of migrants which have helped to push an overburdened shelter system into disaster.
Bombard labored his final day at MassLive on Aug. 25. He mentioned main the outlet’s information division “was an absolute joy and the highlight of my 26 year journalism career.”
“It was gonna take something pretty important to pull me away from that,” he advised the Herald. “It was clear to me that when Gov. Healey appointed Ed Augustus as the new housing secretary and then declared state of emergency, we were at a critical moment in time, and that the administration was moving quickly to find solutions. And it’s just an opportunity to be a part of something that I couldn’t pass up.”
Bombard beforehand labored on the Telegram & Gazette, The Eagle-Tribune, and Community Newspaper Company, amongst different locations. His state wage was not instantly obtainable via payroll information.
MassLive introduced a brand new vp of content material, Ronnie Ramos, final month. Ramos took over for former head editor Ed Kubosiak Jr., who left the corporate after he was charged with home assault. Those costs have been later dropped.
The outlet additionally picked up John Micek, former editor in chief of The Pennsylvania Capital-Star, as politics editor.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”