About Joan Vennochi

Joan Vennochi writes regularly about national and local politics, and also covers issues relating to business, law and culture. Before joining the op-ed page, she wrote a column on the Globe's business page.

Vennochi was City Hall bureau chief, State House bureau chief, and covered national politics for the Globe. She began her career at the paper as a researcher on the Spotlight Team, the newspaper's investigative unit. She shared in a Pulitzer Prize awarded to the team for local investigative reporting.

Vennochi is a graduate of Boston University and Suffolk Law School.

Vennochi's column appears every Tuesday and Thursday in the Globe, and she writes a Web-only column on the fourth Wednesday of every month.