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
Other states created new oversight systems. In Rhode Island, officers still dominate misconduct hearings — and promised transparency measures remain unfunded
Hot rocks, seaweed, and clams are the core elements of this ancient style of cookout, which a Quaker meeting in Dartmouth, Mass., has held annually since the 1880s
Gov. Dan McKee revised a previous plan to eliminate bus routes and instead proposed service reductions on 46 of the system’s 58 routes
A federal agency issued a stop-work order affecting Orsted’s Revolution Wind farm on Friday afternoon, citing unspecified national security concerns
The proposed service reductions would affect 58 bus routes in total, eliminating 17 of those routes entirely