STAFF:
Celeste Katz Marston
News Editor
Celeste has covered local, state, and national news as a staff reporter for outlets including The Providence Journal, The New York Daily News and Newsweek. She is a host on non-profit WBAI FM radio, a 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 freelanced for The Boston Globe, NBC News, Hearst Magazines and more. She is a Concord resident and a graduate of Brown University.
Anne O’Connor
Assistant Editor
Anne has spent her journalism career covering local news in Massachusetts, at the Lowell Sun, Fitchburg Sentinel and Nashoba Valley Voice newspapers. While there she won three New England Newspaper Awards: First place in history reporting, first place as part of a team in government reporting and third place in religious issues. She received the annual Production Creativity Award for Excellence from Fitchburg Access Television for a documentary series. She is a graduate of the University of Hartford and holds a master’s degree from the University of Southern California.
Betsy Levinson
Editor
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.
Jessalyn Frank
Production Manager
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.