Melissa Russell, veteran local media journalist, to head the Weston Observer
For Immediate Release – April 28, 2025
Weston, MA – Weston News, Inc. today announced that Melissa Russell, a veteran journalist in local media will be the Founding Managing Editor of the Weston Observer, the nonprofit newspaper starting up in Weston, MA.
Ms. Russell has been a journalist for more than 20 years and has served as editor for several community news publications including the Winchester Star, the Reading Advocate, the Burlington Union, and the Waltham News-Tribune.
She is the winner of multiple New England Press Association Awards. Since leaving Gatehouse Media/Gannett New England in 2022, where she was Regional Features Editor and Deputy Director of Multimedia, she has been a freelance editor and writer. At Gannett, she led teams of journalists producing content for Wicked Local newspapers and websites.
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