Seth Koenig’s Biography

A lifelong Mainer and graduate of Lisbon (Me.) High School, Seth Koenig has nearly a decade of professional journalism experience and has won numerous awards for coverage of arts, business and ethnic diversity. In 2009, Seth was named Journalist of the Year by both the Maine Press Association and the New England Newspaper & Press Association, whose judges called his work ”refreshingly honest and compelling” as well as “insightful and relevant to his community.”

Seth is married, with two children, and is an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserves. He coaches youth sports on the weekends.

He graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a bachelor's degree in communications, and took master's level classes in strategic technology management at the Persons School of Marlboro College in Vermont.

Before working at the Bangor Daily News, Seth worked at The Times Record in Brunswick (Me.), The Forecaster in Falmouth (Me.), and as a sports reporter and columnist for The Recorder in Greenfield (Mass.).