The Boston Business Journal has hired Grant Welker as a projects reporter, focused on special projects, data journalism and research-driven publications, reports executive editor Doug Banks.
Banks reports, “Welker joins the Business Journal from the Worcester Business Journal, where he covered the roughly 1-million-resident Worcester County and MetroWest regions’ economic development, health care, retail, real estate, and business trends.
“Prior to his role as news editor at the WBJ, Welker was a city reporter at The Sun in Lowell. In that role, his coverage included more than 70 articles on the six-week boycott and monthslong saga of regional grocery chain Market Basket.
“Welker has also worked as a reporter at the Fall River Herald News and the Hartford Courant.”
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