- About Neighborhood News
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Neighborhood News is a micro-local community newspaper with 5 community-specific editions distributed by Pioneer Publishing to 255,000 homes throughout the metropolitan area every month. In addition to our monthly print publications we have launched MetroNeighborhoodNews.com where you can check in daily for updates in your neighborhood and even add a few yourself.
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John Heaston led the founding team behind Neighborhood News and its online equivalent MetroNeighborhoodNews.com in September 2009, with its inaugural editions landing in 255,000 mailboxes in January 2010. In addition to Neighborhood News, John is also editor and publisher of The Reader, Omaha's oldest Arts and Entertainment Newsweekly, and El Perico, Omaha's only bilingual newspaper and publisher of Today's Omaha Woman, a quarterly magazine of the Women's Fund of Omaha, dedicated to educating people about issues impacting women and girls in our community. He is a board member of the Omaha Press Club, Mildred D. Brown Memorial Study Center and the Omaha Entertainment & Arts Awards and has been a settled Omahan since graduating high school here.
- Executive Editor: Summer Miller
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Summer Miller is the founding and currently consulting Executive Editor of Neighborhood News and MetroNeighborhoodNews.com. She is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Newsday, Every Day with Rachel Ray, Eating Well, AAA Living, to name a few. In her former life, she spent time as a public relations manager where she and her team won industry awards for social media campaigns, a humanitarian aid worker in South Africa and editor in chief of The Reader. She is a life-long resident of the metro area. She is on extended maternal leave in a city formerly known as Elkhorn with her husband, Steve, their son Jackson and brand new baby daughter Juniper, with their homicidal cat named Cat, while still reporting on the local food movement.
- Art Director: Eric Stoakes
- Copy Editor: Gini Magnuson
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Gini Magnuson is the copy-editor for Neighborhood News. She is an anti-money laundering investigator, avid backpacker and chronic volunteer. Gini and her husband, Eric, live in beautiful Dundee with their cat-like dog, Inga..
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Pioneer Publishing's Marketing Team is one of the most experienced small business solutions-providers in the region, servicing clients with a wide-range of marketing tools, including online, social media, direct mail, advertising, content development and public relations. We work with our clients to grown their business not only in ten media channels, but across the marketing spectrum. Our most established channel, The Reader, reaches over 100,000 adults in the Omaha, Lincoln, Council Bluffs, and surrounding areas, both in print and online. Neighborhood News is direct-mailed to 255,000 households in five micro-local zones. Contact us for your free consultation TODAY.
- Community Editors
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Brandon Vogel is a freelance writer living above an old grocery store in the heart of Midtown. While still in college his writing career began with Xpressnews.com, an online only newspaper in Alliance, NE. After completing his MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, Brandon began writing freelance stories for various publications. His work has been featured in Everywhere magazine, BostonNow, various publications from Maple Street Press, FOXSports.com, and MSN.com.
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Greg Edds is the community editor for the Uptown Edition of Metro Neighborhood News. After receiving his bachelor's degree in Public Relations and Advertising from UNO, he spent eight years as a professional touring musician, A&R manger, and booking agent for his indie-rock group, Little Brazil. He has past experience in freelance writing and photography with online based websites such as BlockShopper, iwannagothere, and GoTime. Greg currently lives with his girlfriend Brittani and their furry feline, Mimi. When not attempting to achieve success in the music industry, you can find him on a basketball court or baseball diamond desperately trying to hang onto his youth.
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Meredith Gardner graduated with her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She worked as a full-time reporter at the Grand Island Independent before deciding to become a stay-at-home mother. She now works as a freelance writer and lives in Omaha with her husband, two daughters and obnoxious cat.
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Autumn Burns graduated from UNO in 2008 with a BS in Child, Youth, & Family Studies and a graduate certificate in Youth Program Development and Evaluation from UNL in 2011. She is currently is finishing her Masters Degree in Child, Youth, & Family Studies at UNL. She works part-time as a Research Specialist at Behaven Kids in Omaha and spends the rest of her day being a stay-at-home mom of two adorable curly haired boys, Reece and Myles. Autumn and her husband Eddie live in Papillion.
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Tess Sykes is the community editor for the South Sarpy Edition. After receiving her bachelor's degree in Journalism from UNL, she spent eight years as a writer, editor and photographer for weekly and daily newspapers in Nebraska and Colorado, including the Lincoln Journal-Star, Pagosa Springs SUN and the Aurora News Register. She is married with two kids and enjoys reading, leading a kid's choir at church and dancing with her husband.
