Emma Healy

Emma has covered sports for the Boston Globe for three years, beginning while she was a sophomore at Boston College. She has written about high school, college, and professional sports for the Globe, including coverage of the Boston Bruins, Red Sox, and New England Patriots. Her work has also appeared in USA Lacrosse Magazine and the Tennessean.

Emma graduated Magna Cum Laude from BC in the spring of 2023 with a degree in communication and minors in marketing and Chinese. As one of 18 students selected for the honors communication program, she completed a thesis titled “Racial Framing of NFL Head Coach Candidates in Print and Digital Media” that explored media bias surrounding head coach searches in the NFL before and after the implementation of the Rooney Rule.

She was a member of the 30th class of the Sports Journalism Institute, a training and internship program designed to attract talented students to journalism through opportunities in sports reporting and editing and enhance racial and gender diversity in sports departments nationwide.