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
For the first time in six decades, the South Coast has passenger rail service to Boston: South Coast Rail
Reinstated federal workers in the region say they feel little hope of returning to their old jobs
President Trump has already cut over 1,200 positions from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and agency leaders have been told to cut another 1,100 positions, according to a former administrator
It’s one of America’s largest works of Brutalism, and parts of it are crumbling
The MBTA said trains will begin carrying passengers from Fall River and New Bedford to Boston on March 24, pending final approval by the Federal Railroad Administration