About
The Authors
Rebecca Baker
Rebecca Baker joined The Journal News in March 2004. She covers state and county legal proceedings inside the Westchester County Courthouse, as well as cops and crime in Greenburgh and its six villages. In prior jobs, she covered Rockland County government and politics, and was a municipal reporter for newspapers in New Haven, Conn. and Warren, Ohio.
E-mail Rebecca Baker at rebaker@lohud.com
Rich Liebson
Rich Liebson grew up on military bases in the U.S. and Germany as the son of an Air Force master sergeant. After serving four years in the U.S. Army he was hired as a part-time reporter in 1983 and promoted to full-time in 1985. He's had a number of beats over the years including education, municipal government and public safety. He's also been a columnist and city editor for central Westchester. Rich lives in White Plains.
E-mail Rich Liebson at rliebson@lohud.com
Ben Rubin
Ben Rubin is the White Plains City Hall and schools reporter. He was previously the Rockland office mobile journalist and Orangetown reporter, and has covered Rockland higher education and West Point for The Journal News. Before coming to TJN, he worked as a reporter at the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Conn., and the North Adams Transcript in North Adams, Mass. He was born and raised in Wynnewood, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb, and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in English writing: nonfiction and political science.
E-mail Ben Rubin at bfrubin@lohud.com
Dwight R. Worley
Dwight R. Worley is an education/urban affairs reporter covering central Westchester schools for The Journal News, The White Plains Express and LoHud.com. He also serves as a database reporter for the publications, using computer-assisted reporting techniques to develop a wide range of stories about diversity, race, immigration and how changing demographics have impacted the Lower Hudson Valley. He joined The Journal News in 1999 as a business reporter.
E-mail Dwight R. Worley at dworley@lohud.com
Stacy A. Anderson
Stacy A. Anderson covers the towns of Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant, and the village of Scarsdale.
E-mail Stacy A. Anderson at sanderso1@lohud.com
Scott Faubel
D. Scott Faubel is The Journal News/LoHud.com’s assistant local editor for central Westchester. He has been with the organization nearly 30 years, working in many of the communities it covers on the east side of the Hudson River. He grew up in Westchester and Putnam counties and now lives in White Plains.
E-mail Scott Faubel at sfaubel@lohud.com
Matthew Brown
Matthew Brown joined The Journal News in March 1994. He covers a variety of assignments as a Visual Journalist for The Journal News and LoHud.com. For the past year, he has been able to bring his cameras into the schools, covering visual stories of interest to the communities in White Plains, Valhalla, Elmsford and Greenburgh School districts. Prior to that, he could be seen on the sidelines covering major and local sporting events or behind the scenes covering local news in the tri-county coverage area of The Journal News. Prior to coming to work for the Journal News, he worked as a Sports Picture Editor for the Providence (R.I.) Journal and as a Boston-based freelance photojournalist for the Associated Press wire service.
E-mail Matthew Brown at mebrown@lohud.com
