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About The Daily Easton
The Daily Easton is a community news site. We are dedicated to supplying neighbors with the news and information they want, to providing businesses with an effective way to reach their customers, and to making the community a better place to live.
The Daily Easton is part of the growing family of Main Street Connect, a national community news company. Main Street Connect’s mission is empower local entrepreneurs to produce high-quality profitable community news sites and to knit those sites into a national communications network. Main Street Connect’s sites are about neighbors, by neighbors, for neighbors. The well-being and prosperity of our communities is our incessant concern.
Alissa Smith
Alissa Smith, the reporter for The Daily Wilton, grew up in Fairfield and spent her entire life in the Fairfield public schools. After high school, she moved down to Pennsylvania to attend Ursinus College for English Literature. She has spent time volunteering in India and Morocco as well as around Fairfield County when she’s here. She got a Masters in International Journalism from City University London and got a job covering statehouse politics in Virginia and then Wisconsin. She is thrilled to be back home and to be working in Wilton. You can reach her at asmith@thedailywilton.com.
Anna Helhoski
Anna Helhoski has freelanced and interned for various news outlets covering New York state politics, human interest features and the local news for Westchester County. She is now a reporter for The Daily Greenwich. She recently graduated summa cum laude from Purchase College with a degree in journalism. Email Anna at ahelhoski@mainstreetconnect.us
Anthony Buzzeo
Born and raised in Stamford, TJ Buzzeo recently graduated from Quinnipiac University with his bachelor's degree in journalism. While at Quinnipiac TJ wrote for the school's on-line newspaper, The Quad-News. He will be writing anything and everything to get his friends and neighbor's the stories they want to read and talk about. Email TJ at tbuzzeo@mainstreetconnect.us
Art Cusano
A long-time Hudson Valley resident, Art worked for the now-defunct North County News in Yorktown as a reporter and photographer for three years before joining Main Street Connect. Art studied anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, usually between track meets and trips to the beach. He received his Master’s Degree from the Northeastern University School of Journalism in Boston in 2007. Art is an avid runner who has recently participated in the Marine Corps Marathon and the Philadelphia Half Marathon. He plans to run the Utica Boilermaker 15K and the ING New York City Marathon in the coming year.
Bret Matthew
Bret Matthew, the reporter for The Daily Northborough, grew up in Clinton and graduated from Brandeis University with a B.A. in Politics. Before joining Main Street Connect, he freelanced for weekly newspapers in Clinton, Bolton and Harvard. Bret can be reached at bmatthew@mainstreetconnect.us.
Casey Donahue
Originally from Pennsylvania, Casey recently graduated from Fairfield University with a major in Journalism and a minor in Political Science. He is excited to be a news reporter for the Daily Darien, his first full-time job. Email Casey at cdonahue@mainstreetconnect.us
Christine Loughran
"Before she started her work as a writer for Main Street Connect this past June, Christine Loughran was an education beat writer for Patch.com. She also completed her undergraduate study with a Mass Communication degree from State University of New York at Oneonta in May 2010. In her spare time she enjoys spending time outside, reading and with her friends and family."
Cornelia Fortier
Cornelia Fortier has been covering Fairfield County's entertainment scene for the past five years. She drives the Arts section, as well as covers news, neighbors, pets and more. Email Cornelia at cfortier@mainstreetconnect.us
Daniel Castro
Daniel Castro studied English at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he wrote for various collegiate publications before going on to work as the Education/City reporter for The Gardner News. In 2010, he received the award for Best Sports Reporting from Central Mass Soccer Coaches for his coverage of the Wachusett boys and girls soccer teams.
Eric Gendron
Sports Reporter Eric Gendron is a graduate of the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. He covered Ithaca area sports, including Cornell University, for Ithaca College Television. Before joining Main Street Connect, he interned with Sportsnet New York and NBC news' London branch. A Norwalk resident, Eric lives for all things sports. Email Eric at egendron@mainstreetconnect.us
Greg Canuel
Greg Canuel, who grew up in Bridgeport, attended school in Fairfield for 13 years, first at Our Lady of Assumption and later at Fairfield Prep. This is his first full-time job, and he's thrilled to be covering Fairfield. Email Greg at gcanuel@mainstreetconnect.us
Jeffrey Craig
Jeff Craig was a copy editor at the New York Daily News for 17 years before joining MainStreetConnect. A lifelong resident of Westport, he was also an editor at The Record in Hackensack, N.J., for many years. His interests include reading, running and travel. Email Jeff at jcraig@mainstreetconnect.us
Jennifer Lord Paluzzi
Managing Editor Jennifer Lord Paluzzi is a Grafton resident who is seldom found without her camera. A graduate of Boston University's College of Communication, she spent most of her 25-year reporting and editing career at the MetroWest Daily News after stints at the Marlborough-Hudson Enterprise Sun, the Gardner News and the Boston Herald.
Julie Curtis
Julie Curtis has worked and lived in Fairfield County for almost twenty years. A New York City native, she is an award-winning writer whose credits range from TV (a sitcom, as well as reality television) and newspapers, to magazines and the internet. Email Julie at jcurtis@mainstreetconnect.us
Karen Tensa
Karen has lived and worked in Connecticut for more than two decades. Her professional experience includes more than a decade of work as the news editor at The Advocate in Stamford and reporting and editing stints on the staff of The Hartford Courant, among others. She is dedicated to local news, winter sports and reading nonfiction books. Email Karen at ktensa@mainstreetconnect.us
Ken Liebeskind
Ken Liebeskind reported for major trade publications before taking over the Daily Weston and the Daily Easton. He has freelanced for many publications and websites. He's also worked as a copywriter. He's an avid acoustic guitarist and runner, who's run over 30 marathons. Email Ken at kliebeskind@thedailyweston.com or kliebeskind@thedailyeaston.com.
Mark Chapman
Mark Chapman brings 34 years of journalism experience to The Daily Scarsdale, including daily and weekly newspapers, radio and television. Mark, his wife – Norwalk reporter Nancy Guenther Chapman – and graphic designer/illustrator son Eric also got in on the ground floor of the move to online-only hyperlocal journalism, having started EnglewoodEdge.com in Englewood, Fla. Mark started his career on Cape Cod as a sports writer, spent 12 years at the Boston Herald as an editor, and worked for six years as bureau chief of the Englewood edition of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Florida.
Matt Zalaznick
Matt is currently managing editor for Southern Fairfield County. Matt was most recently the managing editor of the Vail Daily newspaper and web site in Vail, Colorado. He has been a reporter, editor, columnist and photographer at newspapers in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Miami suburbs. His other claim to fame is that his guitar was hit by a car while he was hitch-hiking in Ireland, just a few days after he made about $15 singing on the street in a town called Tralee. He is a graduate of Tufts University and Miami native, but considers the New York area his ancestral home. Email Matt at mzalaznick@mainstreetconnect.us
Meaghan Morelli
Shopping and eating are two of Meaghan’s favorite things, and she enjoys writing about them almost as much. Previously, she served as the Editorial Director for Reunion magazine, and spent several years in national cable TV news. She dabbles in social media and has almost managed to truncate Shakespeare’s Complete Works down to 140 characters. Currently, she’s having a blast writing about Fashion and Food in Fairfield County and trying hard not to let the food writing impact the size of the fashions she’s wearing. Email Meaghan at mmorelli@mainstreetconnect.us
Melvin Mason
Melvin has more than a decade of journalism experience. Prior to working at The Daily New Canaan, Melvin wrote news and sports stories for the Valley Independent Sentinel. He's also worked as a beat reporter for the Connecticut Post in Bridgeport, the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Va., and the Daily Courier-Observer in Potsdam, N.Y. Melvin is a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. and a proud graduate of Syracuse University. Email Melvin at mmason@mainstreetconnect.us
Nancy Guenther Chapman
Nancy Guenther Chapman was a freelancer for the Cape Cod Times and The Boston Herald before moving to Florida and becoming a staff community reporter for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. After burnishing her skills as an editor for the Vineland Daily Journal in New Jersey and as co-owner of EnglewoodEdge.com, a hyper-local online newspaper serving Englewood, Fla., she looks forward to learning about Fairfield County as the Norwalk reporter. Email Nancy at nchapman@mainstreetconnect.us
Robert Michelin
Robert is originally from Vernon, NJ and is a recent graduate of Quinnipiac University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a minor in legal studies. While at Quinnipiac, Robert was a sports editor for The Quad News, Quinnipiac's independent online newspaper. Robert interned with HockeyBarn.com as the beat writer for Connecticut Division 1 high school ice hockey. Most recently, Robert worked with the Torrington Titans of the Northeast Collegiate Baseball League and contributed to the production of the documentary "T-Town", which captured the Titans as the first ever crowd-sourced baseball team. Email Robert at rmichelin@mainstreetconnect.us.
Tom Renner
No one knows local sports quite like Tom Renner, The Daily Fairfied's Sports Editor. For 22 years, he covered the field for The Stamford Advocate. He's been in Fairfield County since 1987.
Vanessa Inzitari
Before coming to work for The Daily Westport, Vanessa worked as a freelance reporter for the Valley Independent Sentinel, an online-only news site covering Ansonia, Derby, Oxford, Seymour and Shelton. Prior to that, she interned at The New Haven Register as a reporter, covering a variety of news and human interest stories in New Haven County. Vanessa graduated Magna Cum Laude from Southern Connecticut State University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. During her tenure, she worked as a reporter and editor for the university newspaper. Email Vanessa at vinzitari@mainstreetconnect.us
