Sarah Betancourt is a reporter for GBH News, covering local news in Massachusetts, with a focus on immigration, incarceration, and housing. With over a decade of experience covering the state, Sarah's work has been featured in publications such as The Guardian, DigBoston, NPR, and WAMU 88.5. She was also a recipient of the 2018 IRE-NICAR award with ProPublica.
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States (Local)
Sarah Betancourt's reporting focuses predominantly on local government and political developments in Massachusetts, with an emphasis on immigration-related issues, including migrant housing, shelter capacity, and legal policy regulations. Her coverage also includes topics such as gun laws and police disciplinary records.
Given her focus on local government announcements, she is likely to be interested in expert commentary from individuals with firsthand experience or expertise in immigrant rights advocacy, law enforcement policies within the state of Massachusetts. Additionally, experts who can provide data-driven insights into immigration trends or analysis of legal policy implications would align well with her coverage areas.
When reaching out to Sarah Betancourt for potential collaboration or pitching relevant stories or sources related to her articles' themes covered could include localized perspectives that directly relate to immigration policies and their impact within Massachusetts.
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As more asylum seekers come to Massachusetts, legislators also cap their stays in shelter at nine months in most circumstances.
Hope Coleman prays at a rally honoring her son Terrence in 2017. Sarah Betancourt GBH News
By: Sarah Betancourt
Language skills, housing transiency and transportation can all pose barriers to employment.
FILE - The Healey administration is using the Lowell Inn and Conference Center, left, as an emergency shelter. DenisTangneyJr/Getty Images iStockphoto
By: Sarah Betancourt
The peaceful coup returned civil rights and free elections to people, ended colonialism.
By: Pat Sullivan
FILE - A sexual assault evidence kit is logged in in the biology lab at the Houston Forensic Science Center in April 2015 in Houston.
Items seized from the homes of Paul Miller, Jovan Lemon, Paul Lemon, and Steven Berdugo of Rhode Island. Massachusetts State Police
Basic Black host Crystal Haynes gets a mammogram as part of an October 2023 episode focused on BIPOC women surviving breast cancer.
FILE - A welcome sign in Marblehead, Mass., is shown in this 2010 file photo. The town this week voted against complying with the MBTA Communities Act. Steven Senne AP
Nurses and hospital professionals rallied Monday over workplace safety concerns at Tewksbury Hospital. Courtesy of Massachusetts Nurses Association
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