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
New report found that UMass Dartmouth’s Star Store campus was developed through a “sham” procurement that awarded a lucrative lease to a developer chosen in advance
Legal aid groups filed suit against Raw Seafoods on behalf of three migrant teenagers
States choose SouthCoast Wind, New England 1 and Vineyard Wind 2
The last of New Bedford’s square-rigged whaleships wrecked 15 miles from the city on Aug. 26, 1924