Ted Reinstein is best known in New England as a journalist and reporter for Chronicle, Boston’s celebrated (and America’s longest-running, locally-produced) TV news-magazine. In 2002, he was part of the Chronicle team honored with a prestigious national DuPont-Columbia Broadcast Journalism Award for their coverage of Boston’s controversial “Big Dig,” the nation’s largest-ever public works project. While he also appears in the studio at the anchor desk or delivering an opinion commentary, it’s out in the field where viewers are most familiar seeing Ted. From every corner of New England, he’s found the offbeat, the unique, the moving, and the just plain memorable, all while telling the enduringly colorful stories of the region’s people and places.
In 2010, Ted was one of five national finalists in the Washington Post’s “Next Great American Pundit” competition. Elsewhere on television, Ted hosted the premiere season of the Discovery Channel’s Popular Mechanics show. On the HGTV network, he brought viewers up-close to some of America’s most iconic landmarks on Lighthouses. For the Travel Channel’s photo adventure series, FreezeFrame, he explored Hawaii’s volcanoes, the caves of Puerto Rico, and the South Pacific islands of Tahiti. (Someone had to do it.) His first book, A New England Notebook: One Reporter, Six States, Uncommon Stories, was published in 2013 (Globe Pequot Press). National Geographic Traveler selected it as one of its “Best Picks.” In April 2016, GPP released his second book, Wicked Pissed: New England’s Most Famous Feuds. Ted’s newest book, written in collaboration with his wife, former ABC journalist Anne-Marie Dorning, is New England’s General Stores: Exploring an American Classic (Globe Pequot Press/Sept. 2017). Ted also has had a lifetime love of live theatre. As a playwright, he’s had several short plays selected and performed for Boston’s annual Theatre Marathon, and is the co-author of the full-length play, Yom Kippur in Da Nang. |