Cate is the editor of Back Bay Patch, and has worked as a reporter at newspapers in Vermont, Western Mass and most recently covering Beverly for the Salem News. She graduated from Saint Michael's College with a degree in journalism and minor in Spanish, and lives in South Boston.

John got hooked on journalism as a Lexington High School junior covering Middlesex League sports for various local weeklies. He matriculated at Colby College in Maine where he studied English, ran track and cross country and wrote about White Mules athletics. After graduation, he became a staff writer at a Vermont daily and developed a passion for feature writing, especially profiles.

Karla joined Patch in mid-2010 as a Boston-area regional editor, making the leap into hyperlocal news after  years of focus on the national and international news fronts at The Christian Science Monitor, CNN and CNN International -- doing online news since 1998. She has lived in a neighborhood she loves, Jamaica Plain, for a total of 18 years, with a stint in lovely Atlanta sandwiched in the middle. Beyond the news, she is, among other things, a (fair-weather) biker, a rabid Celtic music fan and an unabashed church nerd.

Peter graduated from Northeastern University in the winter of 2005 with a degree in journalism. He has more than seven years of professional journalism experience. His hobbies include chess, kickboxing, sports, literature, and politics.

Jill Carey, Adverting Manager joined the Patch team in September 2011. She is a native to Ipswich and appreciates her roots and the small town experience she got while growing up on the North Shore.  Having travelled extensively for the last 9 years through out New England while in the mortgage and banking industry she looks forward to being local and staying local in Back Bay Lynnfield, Melrose, and Wakefield.

She is an admitted coffee addict and in turn she never stops going! Prides herself on having a welcoming and comfortable home & treats people in the same manner.  In the summer months you will find Jill outside boating & kayaking and recently discovered that she likes to salt water fish.  You will often find her walking her rescued boxer, Stella…..or maybe see Stella dragging her! During football season, holidays or any given Sunday you can bet that she will be cooking up a storm in her kitchen before the big event. 

If you are interested in learning more about Patch or advertising, please contact her at jill.carey@patch.com or 781-333-9794.

I've been working as a Photo Journalist since 1998. My background is in fashion, having worked as a New York Model for 27 years.

In 2009-10, I was writing a monthly fashion column for a Boston Magazine. Shortly thereafter, I started working for Back Bay Patch where I was also writing a fashion column.

Over the past 2 years I have written for Arlington, Back Bay, Guest Editor for Braintree, Brookline, Canton, a music column for Foxborough, Newton, Wellesley, Newport, R.I., Middletown, R.I. and a music column for Woonsocket, R.I.Patch.com sites.

I also write for several local print newspapers and am the On Air Host of the Cable News Show, "Wellesley This Week". In 2008 I was the Boston Correspondent for the TLC Show, "Designing Spaces"..

I love working for Patch! It's up to the minute coverage of what's happening in your town.

Last summer I spent every day in Newport/Middletown R.I. where I worked for Angela Lemire who was the Editor of the Middletown Patch site. She kept me so busy and it was great because I grew up in Rhode Island and spent every summer on the Middletown beaches as a little girl.

Right now I am covering Canton which has been wonderful. I've lived in this area for 15 years and have been a substitute teacher in the public schools, staff photographer at the Canton Citizen Newspaper since 1998, sat on the School Council for 6 years and was known as the "running lady" by many who would see me running up and down Washington Street for many years.

I hope that you'll enjoy the many articles that I have written and the many more to come.

Grant began his interest in broadcast journalism when he was in high school after volunteering with a local television station in Northern Virginia.  During his college days, Grant was a reporter for Boston University Television's Inside Boston, a student-run news show.  He also worked for Kitay Productions at the Agganis Arena in Boston doing video production during sports events.

This past spring, Grant was an intern at WGBH (PBS) as the Antiques Roadshow Web Intern.  He has also interned with Public Synergies and Rpublictv in Asnières-Sur-Seine, France (a suburb of Paris).  Through this internship, Grant produced a variety of  projects including multimedia presentations for a convention.  He was also given the opportunity to see how the industry operates outside North America.

Email: amanda.kersey@patch.com

Amanda Kersey has been a reporter and photographer for Somerville Patch and other nearby town sites since January, 2011. She began producing news from the communities in October of that year. 

She graduated from New York University last January with a B.A. in Spanish literature and journalism. Kersey covered campus and city news as a staff writer for NYU’s student-run daily newspaper, The Washington Square News. She also interned at The L Magazine, a small magazine in Brooklyn.

Her last internship before entering the workforce was at Gotham Gazette, a politics and public policy Web site based in Manhattan. At the Gazette, Kersey covered a Brooklyn state Assembly election and reported on New York’s initiatives to make locally grown food available to all New Yorkers.

Besides writing for Patch, Kersey spends her time cooking, shopping at the Somerville Winter Farmers’ Market and reading at the Cambridge Public Library. 

John Keith is a freelance writer and real estate broker who works and lives in the South End of Boston.

To learn more about his real estate business and ways in which he can help you as a buyer or seller of Boston residential real estate, visit his website, at http://johnakeithrealestate.com.

He has written extensively about the local political and real estate market and has been quoted in media including ESPN Radio, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, and the Boston Herald.

He is a graduate of Northeastern University and a native of Massachusetts.

Jack was born and raised in Charlestown and spent some time living in Florida and Arizona. For the past four years, he has served as the Charlestown liaison for Mayor Thomas M. Menino and sits on numerous community boards.  Some of these boards include the Charlestown Substance Abuse Coailition, the Kennedy Center, and CHAD. He is graduated from UMass-Boston in June with a bachelor's degree in political science. Before working for the mayor, he was a local 7 Ironworker and worked on many projects throughout Massachusetts. He has two wonderful parents and a large extended family who still lives in Charlestown. He is dedicated to this community and enjoy meeting new faces who move into "The Town." Follow him on Twitter @jackkelly111.

Check out his blog “Coffee With Caesar” at http://coffeewithcaesar.com/

Phil Meyer is Professor Emeritus in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was inducted into the North Carolina Hall of Fame in Journalism in the spring of 2008.  He joined the Journalism School in 1981 and served as Knight Chair in Journalism Professor from 1993-2008.  Prior to joining the school, he held a number of reporter and research positions at various media outlets. 

He has won numerous awards including the 2005 Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Research About Journalism (with Scott Maier). He was named a Fellow of Society of Professional Journalists in 2005. In 2004, the Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication gave him its Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award. And in 2000 he received the American Association for Public Opinion Research Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement.

Meyer is the author of several books including The Vanishing Newspaper:  Saving Journalism in the Information Age and Precision Journalism:  A Reporter’s Introduction to Social Science Methods.  Journalism Quarterly in 2000 listed this book as one of the 35 significant books of the 20th century in journalism and mass communication; and the American Association for Public Opinion Research, observing its 50th anniversary in 1996, listed it as one of 50 significant books on public opinion research.

He received his B.S. in technical journalism from Kansas State University and his M.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina.

Jeff Jarvis is the associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism.  He also blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com; is consulting editor of Daylife; writes a media column for the Guardian, and consults for media companies.

Prior to his current responsibilities, Jarvis held positions including president and creative director of Advance.net; creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associated publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner; assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune and reporter for Chicago Today.

Jarvis is the author of What Would Google Do?

Steven Berlin Johnson is a pioneer in the web world, as a co-founder of FEED, Plastic.com, and Outside.in, which was acquired by Patch in March of 2011. He also co-created Findings.com, which launched in late 2011. Steven was the 2009 Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence at The Journalism School at Columbia University, and served for several years as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU’s Journalism School. He is a bestselling author of seven books, and won acclaim and a Newhouse School Mirror Award for his 2010 Time Magazine cover story, "How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live." 

Speaking of Steven's editorial prowess, check out this video based on Steven's book, Where Good Ideas Come From, which was named one of the best books of 2010 by The Economist.