Josh Landes
Berkshire Bureau ChiefJosh Landes has been WAMC's Berkshire Bureau Chief since February 2018 after working at stations including WBGO Newark and WFMU East Orange. A passionate advocate for Berkshire County, Landes was raised in Pittsfield and attended Hampshire College in Amherst, receiving his bachelor's in Ethnomusicology and Radio Production. You can reach him at jlandes@wamc.org with questions, tips, and/or feedback.
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A former teacher at the center of a sex abuse scandal in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, has filed a motion to dismiss rape charges against him. -
A series of shootings has rocked Pittsfield's Westside neighborhood this summer. As law enforcement in the Massachusetts city mounts a new effort to tamp down the gun violence, residents are uneasy, not knowing when to expect the next shots to be fired. -
Massachusetts is continuing work to bring broadband to the last communities in the Commonwealth who remain unconnected with the goal of achieving 100% access statewide. -
Thursday night, the two candidates vying for a two-year term as state representative of the 1st Berkshire District appeared in the first and only debate of the Democratic primary race. -
The former leader of a private, all-girls boarding school at the center of a sexual abuse scandal in Pittsfield will be arraigned Monday on a count of Reckless Endangerment of a Child. -
Berkshire Bureau Chief Josh Landes spoke with Biagio's aunt, Nikki Levardi, about what Boyne's departure means to her family. -
Berkshire Bureau Chief Josh Landes spoke with Berkshire Eagle reporter Nate Harrington about his reporting on Pittsfield's records archive, and how they remain relevant in daily life centuries after they were first filed. -
Berkshire Bureau Chief Josh Landes spoke about these developments with Hilary Simon, a lawyer and one of the Miss Hall's graduates who put her face and name to the school's long history of alleged sexual abuse. -
According to the agenda for Wednesday night's town select board meeting, the body that governs the small Berkshire County community is prepared to accept the resignation of Chief Shawn Boyne.
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The leader of an all-girls private boarding school at the heart of a sex abuse scandal in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, says she will step down at the end of the upcoming school year.
