Iris Adler: A Life in Public Radio

IRIS ADLER is a former reporter, News Director and Executive Director for Programming and Podcasts at WBUR Radio in Boston. In these roles she has reported widely on Boston and New England, overseen the station’s news coverage, special projects and national and local programs. Adler created WBUR’s Innovation Lab where she oversaw new programming initiatives, including all of the station’s original podcasts and opinion site, Cognoscenti.

Adler also worked as the Executive Editor at NECN, a television news channel covering the six New England states, where she developed a nationally recognized documentary unit. She was the producer and reporter on a range of documentaries, from the Seeds of Peace Camp in Maine where Arab and Israeli children live together, to a series of documentaries on the men and women who returned from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars with PTSD and brain injuries.

Over the course of her career, Adler has won every major regional and national award for her work in both television and radio, including the Edward R. Murrow award, the Alfred I. Dupont award, and several Emmys.

Adler holds degrees from McGill University and Boston University.

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