Host of GBH News Rooted.

Boston-based multimedia journalist,

storyteller, and educator.

 

 

Paris Alston is a Boston-based multimedia journalist, host, storyteller, and educator. She is the owner of Pariscope Productions, through which she also provides voice and storytelling coaching and workshops. 

 

Paris is currently the host of GBH News Rooted. She was previously co-host of Morning Edition and The Wake Up podcast at GBH News. She has done live coverage of Massachusetts’ elections, the unveiling of the Embrace monument to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, the 2023 national NAACP convention, where she interviewed Vice President Kamala Harris, and the 2024 Celtics Championship Parade. She also created and does community-based reporting for her award-winning series "A Walk Down the Block,” and created the original mental health series “Wake Up Well” in partnership with PureSpark, Massachusetts’ 1st Black wellness directory. 

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Before joining Morning Edition, Paris was a host of the NPR podcast Consider This, produced in conjunction with GBH and WBUR. She also served as the host of GBH’s digital series Keep it Social about social media trends, targeted at millennial and Gen Z audiences. Prior to that, she broke into the industry as an intern at UNC-TV in North Carolina and NBC10-Philadelphia and a producer at GBH and WBUR. She has reported on stories from Southeast Asia, Morocco, Panama and Brazil.

 

A North Carolina native, Paris is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied media and journalism and global studies. She earned a Social Impact MBA from Boston University and currently teaches the basics of multimedia production at Boston College. She is involved with the Boston and National Associations of Black Journalists and has worked extensively with print, digital, video, audio and social media.