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Celeste Katz Marston News Editor

Celeste Katz Marston

Managing Editor

Celeste@theconcordbridge.org

Celeste has covered local, state, and national news as a staff reporter for media outlets including The Providence Journal, The New York Daily News, Newsweek, and Condé Nast. 
 
She is a longstanding U.S. correspondent for Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio and a contributor to Nieman Reports, a journal of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. 
Celeste has also freelanced for NBC News, The Boston Globe, Hearst Magazines, and Sirius XM, among other outlets, and is the co-author of a public service book on voting technology. 
 
She is a Concord resident and a graduate of Brown University.

Laurie O'Neill

Contributing Editor

Laurie@theconcordbridge.org

Laurie lives in Concord and works as a freelance writer. She has an M.A. from the Bread Loaf School of
English at Middlebury College and has worked for various weekly and daily papers in Connecticut since
the 1970s. Laurie was a correspondent for The New York Times for ten years. She has freelanced for The
Concord Bridge since shortly after its inception and for the Fenn School, where she served several years
as the director of publications.
 
She was also a secondary and middle school English and writing teacher for many years. Laurie has been published in magazines including Yankee, DownEast, Connecticut, and Maine Homes,
and by the Boston Globe. Her four books on American History for middle school readers, one of which
was named a Bank Street College book of the year, were published by the Millbrook Press. She is an active volunteer in Concord and enjoys reading, gardening, traveling, and spending time in
Maine.

Jessalyn Frank

Production Manager

Jessalyn@theconcordbridge.org

Jessalyn studied at Benedictine University and has been involved in professional newspaper design and production since she was a teenager. Her family owned and operated a local newspaper in Northern Illinois for 11 years before it closed during the Covid pandemic.

She started her career by helping out as an advertising designer, then taking on layout, and eventually handling all print and digital design and production. Jessalyn subsequently helped launch Chronicle Media, a Chicago-based newspaper group with 14 weekly publications, serving for five years as its production manager.

She joined The Concord Bridge staff after relocating from Chicago to Auburn, Mass. with her husband, Andrew, and children Finnegan and McKenna.

Maile Hulihan

CEO

Maile@theconcordbridge.org

Maile Hulihan joined The Concord Bridge as its first CEO in February 2024.  

She is a veteran journalist and publishing executive.

Over a wide-ranging career, Maile has reported and edited for media outlets including The Trenton Times, The Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek.

She later launched a magazine for the Economist Group and eventually moved to its business side. Maile was also a founding executive of a private equity roll-up and presided over its financial information division.

Maile has served on the board and selection committee of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship at Columbia University, a prestigious education program for mid-career business journalists. She was also a judge for two annual journalism prizes awarded by the Fellowship.

Maile has been a consultant to venture-backed companies in England and is a strategic advisor to Books Go Social, a Dublin-based book marketing firm. 

In addition to her journalism and business careers, Maile is a fiction writer who’s currently working on a trilogy, “Trinity of Bitches,” that explores the world of animal actors and animal communicators. Additionally, she’s a history buff and has studied Shamanic and Reiki healing practices.

Maile enjoys renewing her spirit on nature trails in Concord and swimming at Walden Pond in the summer.  

Betsy Levinson

Editor

Betsy@theconcordbridge.org

Betsy is a Concord resident and received both her bachelor and masters degrees from Boston University. She has spent a large part of her career covering Concord, serving as an editor for the Concord Journal and Littleton Independent before joining Concord Patch and Concord Contact. She has freelanced for the Boston Globe.

Christine M. Quirk

Deputy Editor

Christine@theconcordbridge.org

Christine has been a reporter, an educator, a columnist, a fiction writer, and a poet, and is thrilled to be back in a newsroom. 
 
Her work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Grasslands Review, and numerous other magazines. She is a frequent contributor to The Worcester Guardian and an active member of the Seven Bridge Writer’s Collaborative and Worcester Writers Collective. 
 
Christine lives in West Boylston with her family, where she cheers on the Red Sox between stories.

Erin Tiernan

Enterprise Reporter

Erin@theconcordbridge.org

Prior to joining The Concord Bridge, Erin covered Massachusetts politics and kept readers informed as the author of the popular MASSterList daily newsletter.
 
Focusing on equity and accountability while reporting from the State House during the pandemic, she kept tabs on rapidly changing dynamics and parsed policy legislation for The Boston Herald.
 
Before that, Erin carved out a development beat at The Patriot Ledger. Her coverage of gentrification and the effects of a worsening housing crisis in greater Boston earned her the title of the New England Newspaper & Press Association 2019 Reporter of the Year, in addition to other awards.
 
She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Rhode Island, where she got her start interning at local weekly newspapers.

Amy Carlton

Advertising Sales Manager

Amy@theconcordbridge.org

Amy is a well-known face around Concord.  She has worked in the business community for years in a variety of capacities. Her warm and engaging style makes her a natural for her current role at The Concord Bridge.   

She and her husband raised and educated their two daughters here in Concord. She is passionate about health, fitness and well-being, and has worked as a trainer, instructor, and mentor while also being actively engaged in coaching both youth and high school girls’ lacrosse. 

She pays extraordinary attention to detail and is superbly organized, and anyone spending time in a bustling newsroom appreciates these assets every day.