Associate Editor

Joan Vennochi

Vennochi is a columnist for the Op-Ed page. She previously wrote a business column, and has covered national and Massachusetts politics for the Globe. She shared in a Pulitzer Prize for special local reporting that was awarded to the Spotlight Team.

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Boston’s gang wars, 2013

By Joan Vennochi , Globe Columnist

Whitey Bulger’s trial is full of mesmerizing stories of lurid gangland slayings that occurred decades ago. But the gang violence that’s happening now in Boston elicits mostly shrugs.

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Boston FBI, old and new, on trial

By Joan Vennochi , Globe Columnist

The FBI is under the microscope during the Whitey Bulger trial, and for its role in not tracking Tamerlan Tsarnaev before the Marathon bombings.

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Gabriel Gomez’s identity problem

By Joan Vennochi , Globe Columnist

The Republican Senate candidate is a confusing blur of statements and positions that make it difficult to understand who he is and where he stands.

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Still so many questions for the FBI

By Joan Vennochi , Globe Columnist

Who in the FBI investigated bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011? And what happened in an Orlando apartment that led an agent to fatally shoot Ibragim Todashev?