Ben Berke

Reporter

Ben covers everything for Ocean State Media, as long as it’s a good story. His work appears across television, radio, social media, and our website. He joined the station in 2021 after a stint in newspapers, and now handles our metro beat in Providence. His assignments have taken our audience to jails, city halls, fishing boats, factories, museums, bakeries, environmental cleanup sites and a clambake.

Recently published
A CharterCARE spokesperson said the company expects to finalize the sale of Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital to the Centurion Foundation in January 2025
Donald Trump was the first Republican presidential candidate to win Fall River in 100 years. His victory reveals how local Democrats have lost many institutional connections to working-class voters they once used to win elections
The city is already a hub for marshaling offshore construction, but officials seek to create more space for the industry’s white-collar workers
The bonds will fund projects ranging from an indigenous culture museum to an expansion of port facilities for the offshore wind industry to a cybersecurity training center at Rhode Island College
The GOP nominee won a higher percentage of the Massachusetts city’s vote in 2020
than any Republican since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956