Comprehensive and trusted local coverage of Limerick, Royersford and Spring City, PA. Featuring news and events, business listings, discussions, announcements, photos and videos.
I am the second Local Editor for Limerick-Royersford-Spring City Patch. I graduated from Penn State University in 2010 and have been with Patch in some way, shape or form since August 2010.
Melissa Treacy is the regional editor for the Montgomery County, Pa. Patch sites. She resides in Lower Providence Township with her son, 5, daughter, 3, and husband.
Alyson has been a transplanted Southerner since 1995, when she moved to Pennsylvania after graduating from Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. She has lived in the Royersford and Limerick areas for the last 13 years, but she is still a huge fan of everything Southern, including sweet tea, country music, fried chicken and college football.
I am native of Pennsylvania and a local resident of Phoenixville, PA. A 2000 graduate of Fordham University, I received a B.S. in Business, specializing in marketing. I am the Ad Manager covering the West Chester, Phoenixville, Limerick-Royersford-Spring City and Pottstown Patches. I look forward to serving and supporting the local communities and businesses.
Pete is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where he majored in creative nonfiction writing. He has worked for Ladies' Home Journal, GQ, My Community Trend and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He joined Patch in December 2010.
Minnesota native and Royersford resident Tom Thunstrom has been a weather enthusiast since he was a boy. He is the creator of Phillyweather.net, a regional weather site. He's also a history buff and (as you might expect of someone from Minnesota) a hockey fan.
He's also an Assistant Vice President for Penn Liberty Bank in Limerick.
Keith is a regional contributor for Patch, writing for local sites in Montgomery and Delaware counties.
I have over a decade in the education field and write book and theater reviews for various websites, including my own blog, http://www.1776books.blogspot.com
Jim Heck is a videographer from the wayne, Pa
Sarah Cocchimiglio is a 2003 graduate of Temple University, where she received a B.A. in journalism, public relations and advertising.
She began her journalism career in 2003 as a staff writer at Montgomery News, and became managing editor for the Spring-Ford Reporter and The Valley Item, two of Montgomery News' weekly community newspapers, in 2005.
In 2008, she took a two-year sabbatical from the world of journalism, to take a marketing and public relations position at a small, private company. Since then, Sarah has been freelance writing and editing in various capacities, while going back to school to study secondary education.
In October 2010, Sarah received her Pennsylvania Department of Education teaching certificate, and hopes to someday teach language arts and journalism to junior high and high school students.
She lives in Exeter Township, Pa., with her husband and two dogs.
I am a Montgomery County native who graduated from Boyertown High School and a writer / photographer who started contributing to Patch in January. I love what I do.
I am so happy and proud to be a part of a "community-first" news organization and look forward to covering more events and sports that otherwise may get overlooked by "mainstream media" as they produce their cookie-cutter publications.
Some of the highlights of my career include having my photographs published on the covers of three golf magazines, covering the LPGA at the McDonald's championship for seven years and covering the induction of one of my heroes, Ron Hextall, into the Flyers Hall of Fame on the night his banner was raised.
They all pale in comparison to my all-time highlight thus far, which was covering the 50th running of the Daytona 500 in 2009. To see 250,000 people at one event is an image that won't soon be forgotten.
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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.
