Wen Stephenson

Wen Stephenson is On Point’s senior producer. He came to WBUR and public radio from The Boston Globe, where he was the editor of the paper’s widely read Sunday “Ideas” section, directing coverage of political, cultural, and intellectual developments driving the news.

Before joining the Globe, Stephenson served from 2001 to 2004 as managing editor of the Web edition of the PBS series Frontline. And from 1994 to 2001, he was an editor at The Atlantic Monthly, serving five years as editorial director of new media and shaping the magazine’s acclaimed digital edition and online journal, Atlantic Unbound.

Stephenson has written for The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The American Prospect, and other publications. Although his family hails from Texas, he was born and raised in Southern California. After graduating from Harvard University in 1990, he traveled widely in Asia, did graduate work in English at the University of Chicago, and then left the Ivory Tower for journalism.

Wen lives near Boston with his wife and their two children.