Lucia Maffei
Technology Reporter, Boston Business Journal Lucia works as Technology Reporter for the Boston Business Journal, covering the city’s bustling startup community, the ups and downs of the largest technology firms and the soft sports of local venture capitalists.
About this speaker
Lucia works as Technology Reporter for the Boston Business Journal, covering the city’s bustling startup community, the ups and downs of the largest technology firms and the soft sports of local venture capitalists. Her work has also appeared on NPR, TechCrunch, BostInno and numerous Italian dailies.
Originally from Italy, Lucia started her journalism career at age 19 at her hometown paper. In 2015, she moved to the U.S. on a scholarship to attend the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University — and ultimately settled in Boston.
Lucia’s work for the Boston Business Journal has been recognized with multiple awards by the New England Better Newspaper Competition. She received a first-prize award for her piece on how local additive manufacturing startups started 3D-printing nasal swabs in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Her notable scoops include the size of Twitter’s layoffs in Boston, marketing tech firm Klaviyo’s IPO filing and Wayfair CEO’s search for “non-political” employees in the wake of the “Wayfair walkout” of 2019.
Lucia has been awarded numerous media fellowships, including a 2024 SABEW Xana Fellowship, a 2022 CUNY Ravitch Reporting Program fellowship and a 2020 New England First Amendment Institute 2020 Fellowship.
Most recently, Lucia covered the ramifications of a new H-1B visa renewal pilot program and the AG Office's settlement with Uber and Lyft. She also wrote about Bitcoin wallets, gardening robots, conference rooms’ names, octopus-inspired skin care products and the booming e-commerce market for caskets.
