Local journalists, engineers, and lifelong Central New Yorkers building a real-time news platform for the community we call home. Every byline, every alert, every line of code comes from people who live here.
Editorial
Experienced reporters covering every corner of Central New York
Eastwood native and SU Newhouse ’14 grad who covers the stories that wake up the city, from breaking incidents to the I-81 rebuild. Interned at The Post-Standard under Sean Kirst. Won a 2022 Syracuse Press Club award for his series on I-81 construction impacts on South Side businesses.
Lives in Strathmore, coaches T-ball at Meachem Field, and will tell you the exact temperature every time weather is part of the story.
Maxwell School grad who moved to Syracuse from San Jose and fell in love with the place — the farmers markets, the lake effect snow, the neighbors who actually know each other. Turns complex county data and public policy into stories regular people care about. Her data-viz work on Onondaga County property assessments got picked up by Gothamist in 2023.
Trains for marathons on the Erie Canal Trail past DeWitt. Ran the 2024 Skunk Cabbage Classic in 3:22.
Third-generation Syracusan who grew up on Butternut Street. Henninger High ’03. After 15 years in local radio, from board op at 570 WSYR to morning drive producer at TK99, Mike brought his deep-cut local knowledge to CNY Signal. He knows every diner, bar, bakery, and fish fry in the 315.
Lives on Tipperary Hill with wife Danielle and two kids. His grandmother Lucia’s Sunday gravy recipe is classified.
Former Crain’s New York business reporter who covered startups and commercial real estate for six years before moving to Syracuse in 2020. Discovered a small-business scene that punches way above its weight. Won a SABEW award in 2019 for her reporting on co-working space economics.
Lives in a restored Victorian in Sedgwick. CrossFit at 5:45 AM, brunch regular at Modern Malt.
Grew up in Camillus, Le Moyne ’16 with a dual degree in journalism and data analytics. After three years at a digital media startup in Rochester, Alex came home to build the kind of useful, bookmark-worthy content CNY Signal is known for — the guides and lists that answer the exact questions people are searching for.
Saturday ritual: cortado at Recess Coffee on Harvard Place, then a long walk through Onondaga Park.
Operations & Engineering
The engineers who keep CNY Signal’s real-time infrastructure running 24/7
Built the real-time alert pipeline that powers CNY Signal from the ground up — ingesting scanner feeds, weather data, traffic incidents, and public safety information into a single platform that delivers alerts in seconds. RIT ’12 with a degree in software engineering. Spent five years at a fintech startup in Boston before moving back to CNY.
Lives in Manlius. Runs the Green Lakes trail three mornings a week, rain or snow.
Manages the infrastructure and data systems that keep CNY Signal available around the clock — container orchestration, database performance, API reliability, and the monitoring stack. SU iSchool ’18 with a focus on information systems. Previously at Lockheed Martin’s Syracuse campus working on distributed systems.
Baldwinsville resident and board game enthusiast — hosts a monthly game night that has a longer waitlist than most restaurants.
The signal specialist behind CNY Signal’s radio intelligence pipeline. Handles SDR configuration, P25 digital decoding, audio-to-text transcription, and the filtering logic that turns raw radio traffic into actionable incident data. SUNY Poly ’15 with a degree in electrical engineering. Former RF engineer at BAE Systems in Rome.
Rome native and licensed amateur radio operator (KC2SYR). Built his first receiver from a kit at age 12.
Our Mission
CNY Signal exists for one reason: Central New York deserves a news source that moves as fast as the community it serves. We combine real-time data, experienced local journalists, and modern technology to deliver accurate, useful coverage — not clickbait, not aggregation, not yesterday’s news repackaged. Every alert, every story, every guide is built for the people who live here.
Join the Team
CNY Signal is always looking for people who know Central New York and want to tell its stories. Whether you’re a journalist, engineer, data analyst, photographer, or just someone with deep local knowledge and a strong voice — we want to hear from you. Reach out at [email protected].
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