Introducing Wareham Week and Wareham Village Soup

Welcome from the Publisher

Jan 20, 2010
BY ERIK PEINERT
Anne Eisenmenger, publisher, discovered Wareham when she moved to the South Coast in 1982 to become Sunday editor at the Standard-Times in New Bedford. After subsequent positions on both the editorial and business sides of The Boston Globe and overseeing the expansion of the Wicked Local network with GateHouse Media New England, Anne is focused on providing this town with some of the coolest, most useful local media in the country. BY ERIK PEINERT
Cyrus Moulton, editor, is originally from Marblehead but became familiar with the South Coast while a student at Tabor Academy. Cyrus graduated from Bowdoin College then moved to Great Cranberry Island for a  fellowship with the nonprofit Island Institute assisting volunteers from the Town of Cranberry Isles - a town of five islands, two of which had year-round populations totaling 128 - write a Comprehensive Plan.  The experience catalyzed an interest in journalism, and Cyrus left Maine in August 2008 to attend The Journalism School at Columbia University.  He graduated this past May. BY ERIK PEINERT
Jaime Rebhan, reporter, was bitten by the journalism bug while operating cameras for a  morning-news program covering Syracuse, N.Y.   She completed an associate's degree in Electronic Media Communications at Onondaga Community College and then a bachelor's degree in journalism at Emerson College.  Jaime said she enjoys telling stories differently than one might expect, using the power of the Internet and multimedia to make news more engaging and to help explain complex issues in ways that are easier for audiences to understand.
Erin Murray, designer, co-leads Pena Design Group, the team that keeps Wareham Week looking fresh, and chic.  A mother of three and resident of Lakeville, Erin received numerous rewards as a senior designer/ art director at the Boston Globe.  She graduated from Bridgewater State College with a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design.
Steve Pena, designer, co-leads and founded Pena Design Group.  Steve studied visual design at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth before an award-winning career as marketing design director at the Boston Globe.

This may seem like a funny time to start a newspaper. We’re in the midst of a recession, and the overall newspaper industry is . . . well . . . challenged.

But Wareham Week is not just a newspaper. And we think this is a great time to be bringing 21st-Century, locally based, local media to Wareham and Onset!

Beginning today, Wareham Week and WarehamVillageSoup.com will strive to marry the best of the traditional community newspaper (local ownership, professional journalists who live in and understand the town, and advertising focused on the needs of the town’s businesses) with the best of the internet (interactivity, multi-media capability, immediate information, lots of links to more information).

You are holding the first issue of Wareham Week. It’s designed to be both informative and user friendly. Our professional journalists are committed to reporting that is accurate, fair, timely, clear, and interesting - accompanied by high-quality photographs and graphics.

Our website, WarehamVillageSoup.com, features breaking news produced by the Wareham Week staff, lots of multi-media features about the town, and offers from local businesses. WarehamVillageSoup encourages community involvement and interaction by giving members 24-hour access to post their own content and advertisements.

The staff lives in town, and we have an office at 219 Main Street. For more about who we are and what we are about, logo on to www.WarehamVillageSoup.com. And, please, let us know what you think!


Anne Eisenmenger, publisher

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