Casey was born and raised on the South Shore and her family has lived in New England since 1670. She graduated from Silver Lake Regional High School in 1999 and graduated from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in 2003 with a Bachelor's degree in English/Communications and a concentration in Journalism. She recently graduated from Bridgewater State University with a master's degree in English Literature after finally completing her thesis.

Casey's first job was delivering the Brockton Enterprise as a teenager, and never expected to actually work in the news business. Her first reporting job was writing for the Plymouth Bulletin. Later, when Community Newspaper Company merged with Memorial Press Group under the GateHouse News banner, she wrote for both the Bulletin and the Old Colony Memorial. After the Bulletin faded from the scene she continued writing for the OCM and later switched to the Kingston Reporter and the Halifax-Plympton Reporter newspapers.

Casey lives on the South Shore with her three cats.

Contact Casey at Casey.Meserve@patch.com or by phone at 508-209-3820.

After driving for eight days cross-country, Louisa arrived on the last ferry before the Steamship Authority canceled service as a blizzard bore down on the Cape and Islands Feb. 8, 2013.

Although Louisa's first bylines were in the Vineyard Gazette in the 1970s, she is better known in southern New England as a familiar voice on Boston FM radio during the 1980s and 1990s.

Louisa frequently guest-hosted jazz, classical and world music programs on stations including WGBH and WBUR, in the days before the Boston University station changed formats from music to news.

She was also a longtime employee of Rounder Records, then located in north Cambridge, where she worked first in sales and later as a producer of many themed compilation CDs.

A job transfer for her husband moved Louisa to northern California in 1997, and in 2000 she began working at a daily newspaper as education reporter for Napa County. 

In 2003 she moved from print to radio, becoming news director at KVON -KVYN, covering the entire Napa Valley and producing up to 23 newscasts a day.

After an on-the-job injury worsened while she was covering the 2005-2006 flooding, Louisa spent years in physical therapy and gradually became an regular freelance contributor to several local periodicals including the newspaper and independently-owned local magazines Napa Valley Marketplace and Napa Valley Life . She also wrote the "Napa Insider" column for NorthBay biz magazine.

For six months in 2009-2010, she worked as live-in caregiver for a cancer patient as he successfully underwent a demanding pair of stem-cell transplants.

In 2010, newly divorced, Louisa became the founding editor of Napa Valley Patch, which launched as Napa Patch on Nov. 22, 2010 and expanded in September, 2012 to include Yountville, St. Helena and Calistoga as well as the city of Napa.

On Feb. 9, 2013, Louisa became editor of Martha's Vineyard Patch, living temporarily near the house in Edgartown where she grew up. She is looking for a year-round rental and hopes to end up buying a home on the island.

A Napa blogger posted this about Louisa when she left California: Martha's Vineyard Patch is in for a treat!

Charles Mathewson has worked as a journalist for more than 20 years, earning numerous writing and reporting awards. A graduate of Goddard College, he participated in the Nieman Foundation Seminar for Narrative Editors at Harvard University. His paintings and photographs have won honors at local juried art shows. He is the proud father of two grown sons now living and working in New York City.

Elizabeth (Beth) Meigs grew up in Brewster, MA; graduating from Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in 1978. She lives in Chatham with a big, fluffy Bernese Mountain Dog named Sammy and a fiesty but lovable Maine Coon Cat-mix named Triton.   She has two adult daughters and six grandchildren.

Beth is an avid reader, gardener and hiker.  She has worked on or around boats most her life, but she is a long-time closet novelist.  It has been her dream to write for a living ever since she was a child, pounding out stories on a cheap typewriter. 

She looks forward to creating an interesting and informative Calendar and composing the Get Out Weekend Planner columns for Patch.  (P.S. She upgraded from the cheap typewriter a long time ago.)



Catherine Doneghy, please call her Katie, grew up North of Boston in a small town known for its singing beach, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. Trekking to Vermont for education (and skiing) granted her a degree in History and minor in Business from the University of Vermont. A passion for small business initiatives and cutting edge technology has brought her to start-ups in the food world and the educational travel industry where her drive for results and communication skills have made her a treasure!

Katie joined the Patch team as an Advertising Manager covering Hingham, Braintree, Canton and Plymouth to shake things up. Katie now covers many of the MetroWest Patch sites. She is a localvore - this mentality goes beyond what she puts in her pie hole. She wants to get to know YOU, come to your events, support your business and teach you how to get everything you can and want out of your Patch.

Drop her a line!

617-470-1886

catherine.doneghy@patch.com

P.S. I like raspberry jelly on my grilled cheese. My hero is Ernest Shakleton. If you don't know who he is; look him up and get inspired! I love the outdoors and getting back to nature.

Justin Medley is an Advertising Manager for Patch.com. Originally from Alabama, he graduated from Auburn University in 2006 and obtained a B.S. in Marketing. Justin comes to Patch with experience in social media marketing and digital advertising focusing on marketing and branding strategy.  Justin is dedicated to helping businesses fulfill their marketing goals.

justin.medley@patch.com

Michelle is the Regional Publisher for Massachusetts' South Shore, Cape Cod, and the Islands, where she delivers an awesome vehicle for local businesses to reach-out to their communities.  Michelle is a Milton resident, grew up in West Roxbury and graduated from Boston Latin School and Boston College.  After a brief (and interesting!) stint selling cars on Rte. 1 The Automile, Michelle spent most of her career working in magazine advertising sales in New York City at Vogue, The Conde Nast Bridal Group, The Robb Report, and More magazines. After returning home to Boston, she managed a sales team at Phoenix Media/Communications Group . Michelle enjoys skiing, hobbling through marathons, going to concerts, and  foodies-in-training dinners with friends and family.

Joe came to the Braintree Patch by way of editing technology websites and freelancing for Patch. He also completed stints at several newspapers through graduate and undergraduate programs at Boston University and the University of Rhode Island. He grew up in Middletown, RI and moved to Quincy in 2008. Click on his name for more about Joe.

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Ryan grew up playing sports, writing, and fishing in Sagamore Beach, Bourne.  He considers himself blessed to have such wonderful family and friends, and also extremely fortunate to be able to live in such an incredible area. 

He works as a commercial fishermen and charter captain on the Miss Loretta  and thoroughly enjoys his days spent pursuing striped bass and bluefin tuna on the waters surrounding Cape Cod.  His main goal in life is to enjoy each day and be happy - even when the fish aren't biting. 

Email lisa.gentes@patch.com
Phone 781-606-1148
Hometown East Providence, R.I.

A native Rhode Islander, Lisa M. Gentes-Hunt has spent over a decade living and working in Boston, MA. She recently gave up her New England roots and moved to White Plains, New York. For the past 1.5 years, she has been the Local Editor of the Canton Patch in Canton, MA. Since March 2012, she has been the editor of the Scarsdale Patch. For the past 11 years, she has worked in the media industry, including writing and reporting for the Associated Press, the Boston Herald, MetroWest Daily News, The Patriot Ledger, The Dorchester Reporter, and several magazines. She started her journalism career interning for WBZ-TV's I-Team and writing for WBZ 1030 AM news radio. She graduated from Simmons College in Boston with a bachelor's degree in communications and a minor in English.

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.

Steven Berlin Johnson is a pioneer in the web world, as a co-founder of FEED, Plastic.com, and Outside.in, which was acquired by Patch in March of 2011. He also co-created Findings.com, which launched in late 2011. Steven was the 2009 Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence at The Journalism School at Columbia University, and served for several years as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU’s Journalism School. He is a bestselling author of seven books, and won acclaim and a Newhouse School Mirror Award for his 2010 Time Magazine cover story, "How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live." 

Speaking of Steven's editorial prowess, check out this video based on Steven's book, Where Good Ideas Come From, which was named one of the best books of 2010 by The Economist.

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, angelic daughter and the world's most dog-like cat. He’s proud as hell of what the Patch team has built.

Ken Paulson is president and chief executive officer of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University and in Washington, D.C.

Previously, Paulson served as the editor and senior vice president/news of USA Today.  He is now a columnist on USA Today’s board of contributors, writing about First Amendment issues and the news media.

Throughout his career, Paulson has drawn on his background as both a journalist and lawyer, serving as the editor or managing editor of newspapers in five different states.

He also is past-president of the American Society of News Editors, the nation’s largest organization of news media leaders.

Paulson also was the host of the Emmy-honored television program “Speaking Freely,” seen in more than 60 PBS markets nationwide over five seasons, and the author of "Freedom Sings," a multimedia stage show celebrating the First Amendment that continues to tour the nation's campuses.  

He was an early advocate of making newspaper content available online, launching online newspapers in both Florida and New York in 1993.

For 12 years, Paulson was a regular guest lecturer at the American Press Institute, speaking to more than 5,000 journalists about First Amendment issues. He was honored with the API Lifetime Service Award. In 2010 and 2011, he served as chair of the PBS Editorial Standards Review Committee.

In 2007, Paulson was named fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists, “the highest honor SPJ bestows upon a journalist for extraordinary contributions to the profession.” In 2008, he  received the Robert S. Abbott Memorial Award for Meritorious Service in Mass Communications from the Southern Regional Press Institute. He has also been elected to the Illini Publishing Hall of Fame at the University of Illinois.

He is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law and the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He also has served as an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University Law School. In 2008, he received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from American University.