Gintautas Dumcius has covered politics and power for 20 years inside Boston City Hall and on Beacon Hill and beyond, often filing and editing stories while riding the T. While a freelancer working at State House News Service, he co-founded the MASSterList morning newsletter in 2008 and returned as its editor in 2025. He has also served as a reporter for MassLive, as an editor at the Boston Business Journal and the Dorchester Reporter, and as a senior reporter at CommonWealth Beacon. He is the author of the 2013 ebook “This Way to City Hall,” a deep dive into the campaigns to replace Tom Menino and the emergence of super PACs in city politics. Boston-born and Quincy-raised, he lives on the South Shore with his family.