Jim Braude

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Jim Spencer Braude (1949-) is a Boston-based radio and television personality and the current co-host of the Eagan & Braude Show on 96.9 FM Talk and also hosts Newsnight and co-hosts Wired on New England Cable News.

Jim Braude hosts NewsNight With Jim Braude, NECN's nightly in-depth news analysis program. Braude has an earlier history with NECN as host of the station's Emmy Award-winning Talk of New England in the 1990s. By day, he is a radio talk-show host at 96.9FM with Margery Eagan of the Boston Herald. He started his career as a legal services lawyer in the South Bronx, and was the first president of the National Union of Legal Services. He was the executive director of TEAM (Tax Equity Alliance for Massachusetts), a tax reform group, from 1987 to 1996, and then served as a Cambridge City Councilor from 1999 to 2000. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University’s Law School.