About
We bring ideas to life through intelligent storytelling.
Founded in 1993, we are a local media company that serves as a regional thought-leader, publishing content and producing events that engage our community through our brands—Chronogram, Upstate House, Upstater, Explore the Hudson Valley, Rural Intelligence, and The River Newsroom.
Headquartered in Kingston, NY, we publish content viewed by over 2.5 million readers throughout the Hudson Valley, Berkshires, and the tri-state area.
We know that conversation, community, and diversity make us better at what we do.
We inform in new and compelling ways, creating beautiful, visually interesting content that offer new perspectives. We create opportunities for small- and medium-sized businesses to connect with different streams of culture within the Hudson Valley.
Our Team
we celebrate the extraordinary, including the creativity and imagination of our award-winning design and production team.
We strive for partner-centered leadership within our organization. Our staff is empowered to be entrepreneurs—to surface opportunities and make decisions that further the mission of the company. We hope to provide an opportunity for each person to become everything they can be.
Amara Projansky
CEO
Jason Stern
Founder
Brian K. Mahoney
Editorial Director
David Dell
Chairman of the Board
David Perry
Art Director
Jan Dewey
Executive Vice President
Marie Doyon
Digital Editor
Mary Angeles Armstrong
Home Editor
Peter Aaron
Arts Editor
Wendy Kagan
Health & Wellness Editor
Margot Isaacs
Marketing and Events Manager
Ashleigh Lovelace
Sponsored Content Editor
Lisa Green
Editor, RuralIntellgence.com
Phillip Pantuso
Managing Editor, TheRiverNewsroom.com
Phillip X Levine
Poetry Editor
Kerry Tinger
Production Director
Kate Brodowska
Production Designer
Andrea Aldin
Sales Manager
Lissa Harris
Staff Writer, TheRiverNewsroom.com
Kelin Long-Gaye
Media Specialist
Kris Schneider
Media Specialist
Kaitlyn LeLay
Media Specialist
Nicole Clanahan
Finance Manager
Emma Cariello
Editorial Intern
Rayan El Amine
Editorial Intern
Sydney Arus
Editorial Intern
Tiana Headley
Contributing Writer
Our History
Amara Projansky
CEO
When Jason suggested we start a New Age magazine, I let the idea settle in me for a minute. I liked magazines, and I liked reading, and I liked the area, and I even liked thoughtful, New Age kind of stuff. But I realized it was going to need more content than that.
I told him to count me in—but we should include arts and culture as well as the spiritual. We focused the magazine on helping people enjoy the area as much as we did.
Meanwhile, I wanted it to look really good. I had studied art, but I wasn’t confident or schooled in graphic design, so a few choice suggestions along the way helped me learn, and over successive issues I found the look and feel of the magazine.
Stanley Kanney suggested we use the cover to showcase real art—a signature feature of Chronogram to this day. Dorothy Hamburg’s eye for type was contagious and helped me find a format that was easily readable and a pleasure to peruse from the beginning. A few great designers (thank you, Anthony Kosner) gave me encouragement that what I was doing worked, despite my doubts.
My five-year stint as art director for Chronogram—only one of the many hats I wore when we first began—ended, but it was the beginning of a surprise love affair with graphic design—for both me and the magazine. My shoes have been over-filled by our subsequent art directors, Molly Rubin, Carla Rozman, and David Perry, and I get a thrill seeing the beautiful development of the magazine.
What started out being referred to as “that little thing” grew and grew. Now you can’t miss it, (unless you forget to pick one up in the first week of the month). It just gets better and better.
When Jason suggested we start a New Age magazine, I let the idea settle in me for a minute. I liked magazines, and I liked reading, and I liked the area, and I even liked thoughtful, New Age kind of stuff. But I realized it was going to need more content than that.
I told him to count me in—but we should include arts and culture as well as the spiritual. We focused the magazine on helping people enjoy the area as much as we did.
Meanwhile, I wanted it to look really good. I had studied art, but I wasn’t confident or schooled in graphic design, so a few choice suggestions along the way helped me learn, and over successive issues I found the look and feel of the magazine.
Stanley Kanney suggested we use the cover to showcase real art—a signature feature of Chronogram to this day. Dorothy Hamburg’s eye for type was contagious and helped me find a format that was easily readable and a pleasure to peruse from the beginning. A few great designers (thank you, Anthony Kosner) gave me encouragement that what I was doing worked, despite my doubts.
My five-year stint as art director for Chronogram—only one of the many hats I wore when we first began—ended, but it was the beginning of a surprise love affair with graphic design—for both me and the magazine. My shoes have been over-filled by our subsequent art directors, Molly Rubin, Carla Rozman, and David Perry, and I get a thrill seeing the beautiful development of the magazine.
What started out being referred to as “that little thing” grew and grew. Now you can’t miss it, (unless you forget to pick one up in the first week of the month). It just gets better and better.
Our Reach
Headquartered in Kingston, Chronogram Media publishes content viewed by 2.5 million readers throughout the Hudson Valley, Berkshires, and the tri-state area.
