Alice Waugh — Operations Director
Alice is founder/editor/writer/chief bottle washer at the Lincoln Squirrel, which she founded in 2012 as a web-only news site in her hometown. She worked as a reporter and bureau chief for several newspapers in Connecticut before joining the MIT News Office as editor of Tech Talk. After working in several additional communications roles at MIT, she went freelance in 2016. She has a master’s in journalism from UC-Berkeley.
Eric Benjamin — Advertising Director
Eric has a long history in print, radio, and now internet as both a journalist and advertising executive. In years past, he led a national sales cooperative, placing large ad buys into scores of newspapers across the county. Most recently he was a national account director at Boston magazine, where he gained appreciation for how legacy media needs to lean into becoming digital to meet the needs of the day.
News websites
Here is the growing list of hyperlocal news websites in eastern Massachusetts, representing hundreds of thousands of readers (note: not all of these have signed up yet with EMNA, but we’re working on it!). If you’d like to learn more or join, email Alice or Eric. See also our Media & Resources page for background information.
| Town | News website | Contact information |
| Arlington | YourArlington | Bob Sprague, editor
editor@yourarlington.com |
| Bedford | Bedford Citizen | Terri Morrow, executive director
tmorrow@thebedfordcitizen.org |
| Belmont | Belmontonian | Franklin Tucker
editor@belmontonian.com |
| Belmont | Belmont Voice | Jesse Floyd, editor in chief
Contact page |
| Brookline | Brookline.news | Sam Mintz, editor
Contact page |
| Burlington | Burlington Buzz | Nicci Kadilak, founder & editor in chief
hello@burlington.buzz |
| Cambridge | Cambridge Day | Marc Levy, editor
editor@cambridgeday.com
Jessica Lanman, business manger
jlanman@cambridgeday.com |
| Jamaica Plain | Jamaica Plain News | David Ertischek, publisher
david@jamaicaplainnews.com |
| Lexington | Lexington Observer | Nicco Mele, publisher
nicco@lexobserver.org |
| Lincoln | Lincoln Squirrel | Alice Waugh, editor/publisher
lincolnsquirrelnews@gmail.com
617-710-5542
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| Marblehead | Marblehead Beacon | Contact page |
| Marblehead | Marblehead Current | Donna Rice, business manager
d_rice@mac.com |
| Marblehead | Marblehead Weekly News | Ted Grant, publisher
Advertising@MarbleheadWeeklyNews.com |
| Maynard | Town Wide Mall | Glenn C. Koenig, creator
Contact page |
| Natick | Natick Report | Bob and Deborah Brown, news editors
natickreport@gmail.com |
| Needham | Needham Local | Marc Mandel, TNC executive director
mmandel@needhamchannel.org |
| Needham | Needham Observer | Peter O'Neil, executive editor
Contact page |
| Newton | Fig City News | Bruce Henderson, editor
info@figcitynews.com |
| Newton | Newton Beacon | Joe Hunter, president
joe@hunterschlorholtz.com |
| Sudbury | Sudbury Weekly | Kevin LaHaise, editor
sudburyweekly@gmail.com |
| Tewskbury | Tewskbury Carnation | Lorna Garey
editor@tewksburycarnation.org |
| Watertown | Watertown News | Charlie Breitrose, editor
617-458-9561 WatertownMaNews@gmail.com |
| Wayland | Wayland eNews | Kim Reichelt, executive director
waylandenews01778@gmail.com |
| Wellesley | Swellesley Report | Bob and Deborah Brown, news editors
theswellesleyreport@gmail.com |
| Weston | Weston Owl | Kristin Barbieri
thewestonowl@gmail.com |
| Wilmington | Wilmington Apple | Robert Hayes, editor
wilmingtonapple@gmail.com |
June 19, 2023