Robert Turner

Robert L. Turner, co-director of the UMass Boston’s, Commonwealth Compact, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, teaches the graduate course, Public Policy and the Press.  He is also a Boston Globe Fellow at the McCormack School.  Before joining UMass, Mr. Turner was the deputy editor of the editorial page at the Boston Globe.  He has worked at the Globe since 1965 and has held various positions including, Chief Editorial Writer, Columnist, State House Bureau chief and assistant city editor. Mr. Turner was a visiting professor at Stonehill College and a study group leader at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.  He co-authored, with Charles Kenney, Dukakis: An American Odyssey, and wrote I’ll Never Lie to You: Jimmy Carter in His Own Words.  He is on the “WriteBoston” advisory board and the “We Are Boston” advisory board.  He has served on the Bench-Bar Committee, Massachusetts Bar Association, the Boston Globe Foundation Advisory Board and the Milton (MA) Library Foundation Board. He can be reached at his office, 617.287.5579.