Who is Paula Ebben?

Paula Ebben is an award-winning American journalist. She co-anchors WBZ-TV News. She is famous for covering the Boston Marathon Bombings.

Also, Ebben is recognized for interviewing First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House and for the three-city visit of Pope Francis to the United States.

She also reports across WBZ-TV’s newscasts including WBZ-TV News’ “Eye on Education” reports.

Who are the parents of Paula Ebben?

Ebben was born as Paula Blute on 9 November 1966, in Boston to Dr. Bob Blute and the late Dame Mrs. Anne-Marie Blute of the House of Malta.

Her Ebben’s ancestry is of Irish-Italian-American ethnicity.

Paula Ebben was raised along with her ten elder siblings in Shrewsbury, Boston, and loved every bit of it.

Today, one of Paula’s brothers is the respected Peter I. Blute, who on December 21, 2011, was named deputy chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party.

Politics runs in the family as seen here- Blute’s grandfather, Paul H. Hines, served as a state representative and as an aide to Mayor John Hynes.

Her uncle, Peter F. Hines, served on the Boston City Council from 1958 to 1968 and was a candidate for Mayor in 1967.

Late Dr. Bob Blute and Dame Mrs. Anne-Marie Blute were and are proud grand and great-grandparents of twenty-five grandchildren and four great-grandkids!

It is noteworthy that in 2005, Boston magazine ranked the Blute family as ‘the 10th out of 50 families that run Boston’.

Education

Paula Ebben studied at Notre Dame Academy, Worcester, MA from – to graduated in English from Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.