Rachel Gotbaum

Rachel Gotbaum is a special correspondent for WBUR-FM in Boston. She also hosts and produces webcasts for The New England Journal of Medicine and files stories for National Public Radio. Before coming to Boston, Gotbaum worked for KQED-FM in San Francisco. She has also covered Marin and Alameda counties for the San Francisco Chronicle. Gotbaum has filed stories for The New York Times, Marketplace, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Before becoming a reporter, Gotbaum sang jazz in Italy and gospel music in Oakland, CA. She has won numerous awards for her coverage of AIDS, stem cell research, ambulance diversion and the closing down of nursing homes. In 2007, she won a national RTNDA award for her radio documentary chronicling the history of Boston's old city hospital and the creation of the Boston Medical Center.

Gotbaum graduated from Wesleyan University and received a Master of Journalism from the University of California Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley.

She is an avid fan of food and cooking.