For nearly a decade, Joyce Pellino Crane has covered national news from a local
perspective as a correspondent for the Boston Globe, weaving information about the economy, Hurricane Katrina, politics, Iran, and Iraq into stories about Main Street.
Her specialty is business writing, but she’s covered everything from breaking news to restaurant fare, while cultivating sources on local, regional and national levels.
In 2008 she published her first essay on the Opinion-Editorial page of Newsday,
and soon had a handful of essays published on the Boston Globe’s Op-Ed page.
Crane’s objective is to highlight the beauty of the human spirit, underscore moral
dilemmas, and explore emotional and philosophical quandaries.
She develops her stories around occurrences that usually go unnoticed, transforming a mundane event into a metaphorical journey: a lost watch spurs a memory of grief; a stranded baby crow lures a lonely boy.
Crane began writing for the Boston Globe as a technology columnist. Her
contributions have since appeared in the Sunday Globe Magazine, as well as the Globe’s Metro, Business, LivingArts/Lifestyle, and regional sections.
She has written for Thomson Reuters, Crain Communications, American Business Journals, and IDG publications. Crane has covered technology, workplace, real estate, lifestyle, and retail industry stories, and she holds an MBA from Suffolk University in Boston, where she was the recipient of a merit-based Fellowship.
Crane is the single mother of two teenage sons—one an Eagle Scout, and the
other a candidate for the Eagle badge.
