Speaker Bio

Leah Lamson

Executive Managing Editor, Telegram & Gazette
Editor, Worcester Living

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Leah Lamson grew up in Central Massachusetts and graduated from Simmons College in Boston with a degree in communications.

She began her newspaper career at the Fitchburg-Leominster Sentinel & Enterprise in 1976. Leah joined the Telegram & Gazette in 1978 as a reporter in the Milford bureau. She moved onto the staff of The Evening Gazette in 1979 as the suburban reporter. She later became the education reporter, business reporter and an entertainment columnist before joining the editing ranks.

Leah was named assistant city editor in 1985 and a managing editor in 1989. In 2005 she took on additional responsibilities as editor of Worcester Quarterly, now called Worcester Living, the newspaper's lifestyle magazine.

She is past president of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors and currently serves as the president of the society's foundation. She also serves on the advisory board of the New England High School Journalism Collaborative. She served on the board of the United Way of Central Massachusetts and remains on the organization's Governance Committee. She is a founding member of the Women's Initiative of the United Way. Leah received the Katherine S. Erskine Award in the business and law category in 2004.