How Much Longer Will It Be Untill The Money Losing Greenwich Time And The Stamford Advocate Is Folded In To Hearst Newspaper's Connecticut Post?
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Hearst Newspaper President Steven Swartz Hits The Roof As AOL Moves On The Money Losing Greenwich Time
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What is the Greenwich Patch?
Simply put, Greenwich Patch is a new way to find out about, and participate in, what’s going on in town.
They are a community-specific news and information platform dedicated to providing comprehensive and trusted local coverage for individual towns and communities.
The Greenwich Patch want to make your life better by giving you quick access to the information that’s most relevant to you.
Greenwich Patch will makes it easy to:
- Keep up with news and events
- Look at photos and videos from around town
- Learn about local businesses
- Participate in discussions
- Submit your own announcements, photos, and reviews
Who’s Behind Patch?
The Greenwich Patch is run by professional editors, writers, photographers and videographers who live in or near Greenwich, and is supported by a great team in their New York City headquarters. Patch also gets advice from our Editorial Advisory Board and from many members of the community.
The new Greenwich Patch editor Ceciela Smith looks forward to meeting you, hearing your stories, and being your trusted source for community-specific information.
If you see Ms. Smith around town, don’t be afraid to say hi and tell her what you want to see on Patch!
How Can Town Residents Get Involved In The Greenwich Patch
The Greenwich Patch is designed to strengthen communities and improve the lives of town residents, but they can’t do it without you. AOL is building the Greenwich Patch so that you have plenty of opportunities to comment on stories, share your opinions, post photos and announcements, and add events to the community calendar. So get to it!
And if you’re a business owner who wants to be listed, just let them know.
The Greenwich Patch Is Already Geetting Ready To Give Back To The Town
You can’t truly serve a community unless you provide the help it needs most, which is why giving back is so important to the Greenwich Patch.
The Greenwich Patch will do it as part of their Greenwich nonprofit coverage — in a dedicated space that lets local charities and volunteers find each other — and with a program called “Give 5,” through which the Greenwich Patch will donate free advertising space to charitable organizations and contribute our own time as volunteers in Greenwich.
Get in Touch With The Greenwich Patch
The Greenwich Patch encourages you to contact the editor with any questions, comments or suggestions. For other specific questions:
- I'd like to work for Patch: jobs@patch.com
- I'd like to partner with Patch: partnerships@patch.com
- I'd like to talk to someone about the Give 5 Program:give5@patch.com
- I have a media inquiry: media@patch.com
Here IS THE PROFESSIONAL TEAM BEHIND Cecilia Smith's Launching Of The GreeNWICH PATCH
Management Team
Warren Webster, President
Warren has spent the last 11 years in the media industry, and was the first to join the team at Patch. Prior to Patch he was Vice President of Material Media, publisher of niche content sites including Babble.com. Previously he was Director of Magazine Publishing for Gannett in Westchester, NY, where he was responsible for 40+ local and regional titles. Prior to that he held various executive positions at Morris Communications Corporation, including Group General Manager of nine local newspapers, magazines and online news and information sites between Aspen and Vail, Colorado. Warren graduated from St. Lawrence University with a BA in English.
Warren grew up in a small town on Cape Cod and would almost always prefer to be on a boat. In his earlier life he worked as a sailboat captain based on the Cape and Martha’s Vineyard, and when he’s not at Patch he can be found somewhere around 18° 19' 60 N, 64° 37' 0 W.
Brian Farnham, Editor-in-Chief
Brian was Editor-in-Chief of Time Out New York magazine before coming to Patch. Before that he worked for a variety of publications both online and off, including Details magazine, New York Magazine, and the old, dearly departed Sidewalk.com. He has written for numerous publications, from the New York Times magazine to Harper's Bazaar. He graduated from Bowdoin College and got an MFA in creative writing at Columbia University so he could put his novel in a drawer with distinction. He lives in Manhattan with his beautiful wife, adorable son, and the world's most dog-like cat. He’s proud as hell of what the Patch team has built. You can reach him atbrian@patch.com.
Andrew Margie, VP, Directory and Development
A proud native son of Summit, New Jersey, Andrew is in charge of Directory and Development at Patch. Before joining Patch, he served as Director of Digital Media for CBS College Sports, where he managed content and revenue partnerships across many of the company's digital properties as well as oversaw several business units, including U-Wire, a wire service powered by student journalists at over than 800 colleges and universities. Prior to CBS, Andrew worked for American Express, where he managed premium retail partnerships for the company's Membership Rewards Program. He also worked for MetLife, Inc. for several years in international business licensing and corporate development. Before that, Andrew spent most of his professional life on a ladder with a squeegee washing windows door-to-door in New Jersey.
Andrew holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BA from Connecticut College. He drinks copious amounts of coffee, loves his wife, two kids and Led Zeppelin, and will defend New Jersey's honor to the death.
Randy Meech, VP, Engineering
Randy started at Patch in February '08 and built out the platform and engineering team, which is focused around agile development practices. He still tries to spend some time coding, but not as much anymore because of managerial responsibilities combined with the high quality of the team he's hired. He's currently focused on how to set up Patch for massive scale on the technical side.
Randy was at a couple startups before Patch, and before that he was at Google for five years, doing many different things but finally managing a development team focused on global sales & finance reporting and analysis. He holds a master's degree from Harvard University and a BA in English Literature and History.
Randy's new site, Taxihack, recently won second prize in the NYC BigApps contest, which encourages developers to use newly public city datasets.
William Nance, VP, Strategy & Development
Prior to joining Patch, William was a member of Lehman Brothers' Media and Communications investment banking practice, where he worked on a range of acquisitions and financings for online and offline media companies, fixed and mobile satellite operators, and wireless communications providers. He also spent time as a media & publishing focused strategy consultant at startup consulting firm Mainspring (acquired by IBM) and at Deloitte Consulting.
Outside of work, you'll find him spending time with his wonderful and beautiful wife Jessica, following Formula One auto racing, or listening to the splendiferous sounds of Gold Leader.
William holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB from Princeton University.
Marie Brattberg, Director of Product Management
In 2005, Marie moved to New York from Sweden for a 6 month internship building mobile websites. A lot more than six months later, she is still in New York, although with a 3 year detour to San Francisco where she co-founded a startup. Marie is very excited to be part of the Patch team and to get to focus on building a viable business model in local journalism, this in the midst of the most evolving times ever for the industry.
Marie grew up with four brothers who taught her to enjoy both hockey, beer and skiing but her favorite hobbies also includes beach hangout, good food, reading and relaxing in general. Marie holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
Aubrey Holland, Director of Engineering
Aubrey Holland has been a member of the engineering team at Patch since he moved to New York from Boston in the Summer of 2008. Prior to joining Patch, he had a number of employment adventures ranging from building applications for TV meteorologists to being a house husband in Venice, Italy where his wife held a teaching position. Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, his hobbies include hating the cold, cooking and beer snobbery.
Charlie Gray, EVP, HR & Operations
Charlie is a HR leader with a passion for recruiting, talent management and organizational design and development. Most recently he was the SVP of HR at RecycleBank, a green rewards start-up funded by KPCB, Sigma and RRE Ventures, and before that he led Recruitment and HR for the North American Sales group at Google from 2003 until 2008. He also led Recruitment and Human Resources at Ziff Davis Media, and managed the staffing function at Prism Rehabilitation Systems, a leading national healthcare provider which grew from a few hundred staff to 10,000 employees over the course of three years. He holds 2 degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo, in Music Performance and English Literature, and lives in New Jersey with his wife Jackie, daughter Ella, son Owen and various animals.
Engineering
Alex Cox, Software Engineer
Alex is an artist and a frontend engineer at Patch. On his way here he passed through the classics department of the University of Texas(age 20), studied classical piano performance with a hermit in Germany(24), worked as an archeological illustrator in Texas, and, as is the way of such things, began enthusiastically building websites at some point. Before coming to Patch he ran his own web development consultancy in New York. He's happy as always to be among talented people with a great project.
Cedric Howe, Software Engineer
Cedric is from Brooklyn, NY. He studied Comparative Literature at Trinity College, before taking the next logical step into computer programming. He's worked at Google, Razorfish and a few start-ups. He likes robots, puppies and rainbows.
George Ogata, Software Engineer
George hails from Sydney, Australia, where he graduated with a Bachelors in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales. He took to programming web sites during his tenures with various Australian companies, large and small. In 2009, he moved to NY to be closer to his wonderful girlfriend, and to surround himself with the brilliant minds at Patch. He enjoys programming, coffee, and programming.
Mat Brown, Software Engineer
Mat Brown is a software engineer from Arlington, VA. After graduating from Dartmouth College, Mat spent a year in Seattle, WA playing in a rock band, and then moved to New York City to make web sites. Before joining Patch, Mat worked as a developer at Time Out New York and a small New York web development shop. Mat's extracurricular interests include cooking, boring his radiant girlfriend with incessant talk about programming, and watching Battlestar Galactica.
Sam Cole, Software Engineer
Sam Cole is one of Patch's star front-end engineering team, which means that he makes things pretty and then makes them move in peculiar ways. He recently moved to New York City from upstate New York and married his gorgeous wife, which turns out are two pretty complicated maneuvers, more so then you would think. He now lives in beautiful Bed Stuy.
John Crepezzi, Software Engineer
John is a software developer originally from Ocean County, NJ. Before joining Patch, he worked at Citigroup, Sun Microsystems, and co-founded a semantic web startup called Zinkk. In his free time, he enjoys interesting problems (and hopefully solving them), mountain climbing, and spending time with his family.
Gavin Blair, Product Support Manager
Gavin joins Patch from the publishing industry where he managed the technical support and development of various web and enterprise content management systems. He's originally from Stonington, CT and enjoys reading, science fiction, Boston sports and hanging out with friends in his Brooklyn neighborhood.
Stephen Heinz, Reporting Engineer
Steve grew up in Milford, Michigan attempting to replicate science tricks from MacGyver in his parents' kitchen. Naturally this led to a degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a career in database and software development. Prior to joining Patch he worked with the National Institutes of Health at the Detroit Medical Center and led a team of report developers for Ryder logistics. Steve owns an impressive collection of power tools after remodeling his first house and looks forward to exciting new projects with the Patch team in New York.
Product Team
Chrissy Fleming, Product Manager
Born and raised in Stamford, CT, Chrissy never imagined her advanced education in suburban life would come in handy until she heard about Patch. She graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in 2004 with degrees in music and eating barbecue, and earned a Masters in Voice from the Manhattan School of Music in 2007. She then did what any classically-trained opera singer who wants to afford rent and food would do--she got a job doing marketing and web projects at the New York City Opera. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their cat, and spends her free time swing dancing, skiing, and, yes, singing.
Katie Ledvin, Senior QA Engineer
Katie received her BS in Computer Science and Art in Odessa, Ukraine. Then she and her amazing family moved to the U.S., where Katie began to look for bugs (software bugs that is!). Inspired by her beautiful daughter Lina, she grew from QA Analyst to Sr. QA Engineer enjoying finding thousands of bugs in SunGard Trading and Risk Systems, Zingy & Vindigo. Katie loves to travel. Especially in Italy where she became a fan of Vasco Rossi and Luca Toni and experienced such wonderful things as sunrise in Sorrento, sunset accompanied by live saxophone music in Portoferraio, Spritz in Caorle and a motorbike ride in Perugia!
Kelsey Rahn, Web Designer
Kelsey is a New York City transplant from Minneapolis, MN, birthplace of her fav shopping destination, Target. She went to college at Drake University in Iowa, where she got a degree in Journalism & Graphic Design and ate a lot of corn on the cob. Her web design career began at Better Homes & Gardens, and since moving to Manhattan, she has worked at CondeNast and Time Out New York. She is currently obsessed with crafting and drinking beer (at the same time), theme parties, making lists, and taking taxis.
Directory & Development
Chris Davis, Regional Director, Boston
Chris spent the past 4 years as an Operations Manager for GE Money in CA and then GE Commercial Finance in Boston. Prior to GE Capital, he worked for a mortgage company in Newport, RI, his home town, for 3 years. Before that he held sales positions for Oracle, Citigroup and Liberty - all in Boston. Chris graduated from Connecticut College with a BA in Literature. He is currently pursuing his MFA - Creative Writing in his spare time.
Clare Baker, Listings Editor
A proud Hoosier by birth, Clare is a New York transplant by way of Cincinnati, where she got her start as a writer and editor at a trade magazine after graduating from Xavier University. She has written for a variety of publications including Cincinnati Magazine, Time Out Kids New York and New York Magazine Weddings. Few things make her happier than bad pop music and fountain Coke. Clare is super excited to be working with the extremely passionate and talented team at Patch.
Danielle Noto, Regional Director, New York
Dunkin' Donuts in her hometown of Yorktown, NY was her first employer. Her diverse work history includes financial sales, crisis intervention counseling and herding cats. Most recently, she launched a website for the Department of the Interior and trained small business owners in developing countries to use the internet as a business tool. Danielle has an MBA from Columbia.
Laura Nelson, Regional Director, San Francisco
Laura's professional experience includes stints in the entertainment, publishing, and automotive industries, to name a few. Her interests include figure skating, reading, current events, painting / drawing, and travel, most frequently to Vegas, LA, Tahoe, and Northern Michigan. Laura earned a BFA in Art from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!)
Meghan Hoctor, Operations Coordinator
Meghan is originally from Upper Montclair, NJ. She has a degree in Economics from Villanova University. She interned at Google in the events and sales departments, and she also was the first and only intern at Patch until she got hired full time.
Meghan is a true beach bum at heart, you can find her down the shore most summer weekends. When she isn't catching rays you can find her going out with friends, eating Mexican, or spending time with her nephew.
Trip Tate, Operations Manager
Trip enjoys the following things: baseball, barbecue (that's pulled pork for the northern folks) and barbecue-ing, Phil Collins-era Genesis, yoga, the St Louis Cardinals and Tennessee Titans, paddle tennis, day trading, and brazilian jiu-jitsu, not necessarily in that order. He hails from Nashville, TN and has a black lab named Ozzie, prominent among his photos.
He joined Patch from his previous role as an analyst in Canon USA's Strategy department and graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Operations Research and Financial Engineering.
Jennifer Pastorini, Regional Director, Los Angeles
Jennifer is a native Californian, whose background stems from hospitality and hotels. With a degree in Marketing Psychology, she previously worked at Andrade/Hamilton developing and creating unique marketing campaigns for local businesses in Los Angeles. Additionally, Jennifer worked in production and promotional advertising.
She enjoys surfing, hiking, camping, snowboarding and yoga. Her golden retriever "Sunshine" accompanies her wherever she goes and she loves the Dave Matthews Band.
Claudia Huapaya, Marketing Coordinator
Claudia is a newbie in the Big Apple. A Bostonian through and through, she graduated from Boston College with a degree in Marketing and got her start working for Going.com. She often speaks vicariously through movie quotes and has an impressive karaoke repertoire. When she's not cheering for the Sox, Pats or BC Eagles, she can be found shredding the guitar on Rockband, baking treats, or dusting her Beerlympic gold medal.
She's loving life in New York but misses her five older brothers, parents, and wicked awesome Boston accents.
Editorial
Steve Johnson, Regional Editor
Steve Johnson is a New Jersey regional editor for Patch. He previously was online editor at the AP in N.Y. He joined MSNBC.com in 1996, managing NBC News Web sites, producing the front page and writing for the special projects unit. He's been a reporter and later the executive producer at Court TV, editor of a daily legal paper, reporter for the Atlanta Constitution, delivery boy for the Chattanooga News-Free Press and swept floors on the overnight shift at a plant that made nuclear reactor boilers. He lives in Little Falls, N.J., with his lovely wife Linda and their two dogs and when not working, he can be found banging on a mandolin or guitar and singing off-key with the North Jersey Acoustic Music Group.
You can reach me at steve@patch.com.
Marcia Parker, West Coast Editorial Director
Marcia Parker is the West Coast Editorial Director. She taught at and was Assistant Dean at U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School for several years, and then joined the non-profit Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley. She served as Launch Manager for the website of California Watch, CIR's statewide investigative reporting unit. Previously she did stints at AOL, where she was the Director of Programming for the small business channel, and was Assistant Managing Editor at Intuit'squicken.com, then a leading personal finance website. Marcia has also done consulting on content strategy for Yahoo, AllVoices.com, among others. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism and political science, Marcia earned a master's degree from Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy. She also does media training overseas through a foundation she and two other journalism colleagues founded.
Liz Taurasi, Regional Editor
Liz Taurasi joins Patch as Boston Regional Editor. An award-winning editor and reporter, hyper-local community journalism has been Liz's passion for as far back as she can remember. In her 19-year journalism career, Liz has worked for several community newspapers, wrote opinion pieces, columns, managed sections of a daily newspaper and managed a group of weekly newspapers in south suburban Boston. A winner of two first place New England Press Association Awards for her reporting and column writing, Liz is also proud to be a member of a team which captured two FOLIO Eddie Gold Awards, including one for online content, as well as a Jesse H. Neal Award. After a four-year stint in magazine publishing, as executive editor for Reed Business Information'sDesign News, Liz is back to her roots and looking forward to working with some of the brightest local editors Massachusetts has to offer!
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Phil Meyer
Phil Meyer is Professor Emeritus in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was inducted into the North Carolina Hall of Fame in Journalism in the spring of 2008. He joined the Journalism School in 1981 and served as Knight Chair in Journalism Professor from 1993-2008. Prior to joining the school, he held a number of reporter and research positions at various media outlets.
He has won numerous awards including the 2005 Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Research About Journalism (with Scott Maier). He was named a Fellow of Society of Professional Journalists in 2005. In 2004, the Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication gave him its Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award. And in 2000 he received the American Association for Public Opinion Research Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement.
Meyer is the author of several books including The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age and Precision Journalism: A Reporter’s Introduction to Social Science Methods. Journalism Quarterly in 2000 listed this book as one of the 35 significant books of the 20th century in journalism and mass communication; and the American Association for Public Opinion Research, observing its 50th anniversary in 1996, listed it as one of 50 significant books on public opinion research.
He received his B.S. in technical journalism from Kansas State University and his M.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina.
Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis is the associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism. He also blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com; is consulting editor of Daylife; writes a media column for the Guardian, and consults for media companies.
Prior to his current responsibilities, Jarvis held positions including president and creative director of Advance.net; creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associated publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner; assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune and reporter for Chicago Today.
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Brian, please read and disseminate my post on Greenwich Gossip today about the totally unfair firing of a beloved long-time Town of Greenwich employee. Thank you!
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