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The people of the Independent are curious, community-minded, and committed to to the cause of local journalism. Also, they are your neighbors. 

Editorial Staff

Paul Benson News Editor

Paul Benson is the Independent’s news editor. He also reports on the region’s housing crisis, civic and economic life, and sea level rise. Paul has lived on Outer Cape Cod since 2013. He began writing for the Indie, mainly about Provincetown, soon after the newspaper was founded in 2019, and has also worked as a forest ranger, bartender, and deckhand.

Aden Choate Staff Reporter

Aden Choate is from rural Illinois, where before coming to Provincetown as a Local Journalism Project fellow in 2023 she worked as a producer of The 21st Show, a public radio news talk show that airs on NPR stations across that state. She was an editorial intern and a fact-checker at the American Prospect. A 2021 graduate of Georgetown University, she was the editor of Bossier, the school’s feminist literary magazine.

Edward Miller Editor

Edward Miller is co-founder and editor of the Provincetown Independent. He previously founded two small newspapers, the Harvard Post and the Bolton Common, and a publishing company, the Harvard Common Press. He was a founding editor of Highwire, a national news magazine for high school students, and taught writing at Harvard. He co-authored How to Produce a Small Newspaper: A Guide for Independent Journalists in 1978.

Parker Mumford Staff Reporter

Parker Mumford spent the first eighteen years of his life in Eastham, the town he returned to in 2023 and now covers as a reporter. Prior to joining the Independent, he worked as a history and literature teacher at a middle school in Brooklyn. He is interested in Japanese pop culture and has translated manga fanzines. He graduated from Skidmore College in 2022.

William von Herff Staff Reporter

William von Herff is a scientist-turned-science journalist from Ottawa, Ontario who joined the Independent after earning a master’s degree in science writing from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2023. His reporting focuses on the environment, wildlife, climate change, history, and his biggest passion: birds. His undergraduate degree in biology is from McGill University in Montreal.

Thomas Recchio Staff Writer

A long time summer resident and new year-round resident of Wellfleet, Tom Recchio recently retired after a thirty-year career as a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. At the Independent he works primarily on obituaries, which he finds challenging and deeply engaging

Susan Abbott Design and Production

Susan Abbott lives in Eastham with her husband and three cats. She’s a self-employed graphic designer, and also volunteers at the National Seashore, Nauset Light Preservation Society, and Mass Audubon, and plays in two town bands.
Andy Pyman

Andy Pyman Web Guru

Andy Pyman is a lifelong New Englander who hopped around the region until he ended up in his current home of Somerville, MA. Andy helps keep the Indie website up and running using the skills he has honed as owner of Truly Good Design, the go-to web development firm for local organizations in the Greater Boston area.

Business & Production Staff

Emma Doyle, Yoga

Emma Doyle Advertising Sales

Emma Doyle is a yoga teacher, writer, and surfer in pursuit of a life well-lived in Wellfleet. She also works with local businesses as an advertising account manager for the Independent.

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