William P. (Bill) Forry is the co-publisher and executive editor of the award-winning Reporter Newspapers, a family-owned and operated community newspaper group that includes the weekly Dorchester Reporter, as well as the publications Boston Irish and the Boston Haitian Reporter. The publications — and their companion websites and associated platforms— are all part of a media business owned and operated by his family since 1973. Mr. Forry is a graduate of Boston College High School, Boston College and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. A lifelong resident of Dorchester, he attended Boston College High School and St. Gregory’s Elementary School. He worked as a correspondent on BNN-TV’s Neighborhood Network News for 25 years and has been a frequent guest on television and radio programs, including MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, and WGBH’s Greater Boston. Forry and the Reporter is the recipient of New England Press Association’s top prize for spot news coverage (2014). Each year, the Forry family convene Boston Irish Honors, an awards ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library which has become a highlight of the fall calendar in Boston’s sprawling Irish-American community. Bill is married to former State Senator Linda Dorcena Forry, who now serves as The Reporter’s co-publisher. The couple have four children: John, Conor, Madeline, and Norah.
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