About The Eastchester Daily Voice

Brian Donnelly

Larchmont native Brian Donnelly covers Northern Westchester for the Daily Voice. Brian graduated magna cum laude from Iona College and interned for the Fox News Channel. After college, he became a freelance writer for the health section of the Fox News Channel website. Brian most recently worked at the public-access channel LMC-TV as an audio-visual technician, filming local board meetings, high school sports and community events.

Casey Donahue

Originally from Pennsylvania, Casey graduated from Fairfield University with a major in journalism and a minor in political science. He has covered Darien and other towns in Fairfield County since 2010. He recently turned his reporting attention to Port Chester, Rye and Harrison.

Joe Lombardi

Joe Lombardi returned to The Daily Voice in September, 2013 after serving as a sports editorial advisor here from August 2011 through January 2012.

Lombardi has spent much of his professional career as an award-winning writer and editor who has worked at major newspapers and magazines, as a book author and as a television and radio broadcaster who has anchored studio shows and worked as a play-by-play and color analyst.

Lombardi is also an innovative and energetic entrepreneur who is a team leader, team builder and multimedia, multi-platform professional. He has been consistently and actively involved in web publishing for nearly 15 years, including for such sites as Yahoo’s rivals.com, CBS’s MaxPreps.com, InsideLacrosse.com, LoHud.com, MSGVarsity.com and LaxLessons.com. In addition, he also has expertise in marketing, public relations and social media.

Karen Tensa

Karen has lived and worked in Connecticut for more than two decades. Her professional experience includes more than a decade of work as the news editor at The Advocate in Stamford and reporting and editing stints on the staff of The Hartford Courant, among others. She is dedicated to local news, winter sports and reading nonfiction books.

Nathan Bruttell

After spending two years in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., as a multimedia reporter, Nathan returns east of the Mississippi to cover Westchester for the Daily Voice. Before Arizona, Nathan spent three years in his home state of Michigan working for daily newspapers including The Argus Press, The Kalamazoo Gazette, and Western Michigan University’s newspaper, The Western Herald. You can reach him at nbruttell@dailyvoice.com.

Sam Barron

An (almost) lifelong Westchester resident, Sam has reported on all facets of Westchester since he graduated from Ryerson University with a degree in print journalism, including stints at North County News and The Examiner. A film columnist for WAG Magazine, Sam's moviegoing expertise has been profiled in the New York Times and he was a featured guest on VH1's Big Morning Buzz Live.

Zak Failla

Zak worked as a sports editor at the Shoshone News Press in northern Idaho and as a sports writer at the Ithaca Journal before making his way to The Daily Voice. He is a Long Island native and proud alum of Ithaca College’s Roy H. Park School of Communication. When he’s not bemoaning the Atlanta Braves’ playoff woes, you can probably find him on the phone with his mom.