Anne Eisenmenger

Anne Eisenmenger leads the GateHouse New England Interactive Department. In that role and in her previous position as Vice President of Business Development at Enterprise NewsMedia (acquired by GateHouse in June 2006), she has spearheaded development of the company’s network of Wicked Local hyper-local community sites. The “beta” Wicked Local Plymouth site has garnered a number of industry honors, this year winning a national EPpy Award as the best website affiliated with a weekly newspaper. Also this year, Ms. Eisenmenger earned second-place honors as “Innovator of the Year” from Suburban Newspapers of America.

Prior to joining Enterprise NewsMedia, Ms. Eisenmenger spent 13 years at The Boston Globe, half of them as an editor, the other half in a variety of strategic planning, circulation management, and project management positions. A Natick, Mass., native, Ms. Eisenmenger graduated from Williams College in 1976 and spent the first 20 years of her career as an editor, moving from managing editor of the Bennington (Vt.) Banner to Sunday editor of The Standard-Times in New Bedford, Mass., and then to The Globe.

She has attended two API seminars: Lifestyle Editors and Sunday and Feature Writers.

She is the mother of three grown children and a national champion masters oarswoman.