Communication Department Faculty

Scott Helman spent more than 23 years at The Boston Globe as an award-winning executive producer, creative leader, podcast show-runner, editor, staff writer, and live storytelling director.

He was co-lead editor on The Valedictorians Project, a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting. He was the founding director of Globe Live, a series of live nonfiction storytelling shows, and has executive produced several award-winning podcasts and documentary shorts. 

He is co-author of the books The Real Romney (HarperCollins, 2012) and Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, the City's Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice (Dutton, 2014), which was based on the Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. 

In 2017, he, with fellow members of the Spotlight Team, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for an investigation of the Massachusetts mental health care system. 

He was previously the Globe’s political editor and a national political reporter, serving as a lead writer on the 2008 presidential campaign. He has also been a Metro reporter, contributing book critic, and assistant Metro editor. Previously, he was a producer and writer for The Chicago Tribune. An Ohio native and proud graduate of the University of Wisconsin, he lives near Boston with his family.