Maine Trust for Local News welcomes new reporters, roles
Jun. 16—The Maine Trust for Local News has hired new full-time reporters and reshuffled others to tackle state and community news coverage across its publications.
The Maine Trust is the parent company of the Portland Press Herald, Sun Journal in Lewiston, Kennebec Journal in Augusta, Morning Sentinel in Waterville, Times Record in Brunswick and more than a dozen southern and western Maine online publications and newsletters.
Katie Langley has been hired to cover Brunswick and Topsham for the Times Record. She started as the weekend reporter at the Press Herald in June 2024 and began her new role in April.
Dana Richie, a former Press Herald intern, has joined the Southern Maine community reporting staff, covering South Portland, Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth. She also will publish the weekly digital newsletter the Cape-SoPo-Scarborough Now.
Richie is a recent graduate of Brown University. She started in June, taking over for Drew Johnson, who is the Press Herald's new night reporter. Johnson had been reporting for the Southern Maine weeklies for four years.
Daniel Kool has moved from the Press Herald's night desk to the business desk, where he covers utilities — electricity, gas and broadband — as well as the impact of tariffs, and general assignment business stories. He joined the paper in 2024. Before moving to Maine, he worked as a metro correspondent for The Boston Globe.
Next month, Reuben Schafir, another former Press Herald intern, will return with a new role covering Indigenous communities in Maine through Report for America. He has spent the last three years reporting in southwest Colorado.
The changes are just the latest for the news organization, which has, over the last few months, announced a series of leadership shifts, including the retirement of longtime editor John Richardson and the hiring of Gina Kaufman to oversee criminal justice, courts and health coverage. Reporter Eric Russell and assistant web editor Alex McCann have both been promoted to news editor.
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