Rachel Gotbaum is a special correspondent for WBUR-FM in Boston. She has filed stories for NPR, The New York Times, Marketplace and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She is an adjunct professor at Emerson College in Boston. She has also hosted and produced a weekly webcast for The New England Journal of Medicine. Before coming to Boston, Gotbaum reported for NPR affiliate KQED-FM in San Francisco. She has also covered Marin and Alameda counties as a correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle.

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 public radio documentary chronicling the history of Boston’s old city hospital.

Gotbaum graduated from Wesleyan University and received a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley. She is an avid fan of food and cooking.