Martin Cassidy joined Community Impact Newspaper as editor of Franklin Brentwood Community Impact in 2021. As editor of both CI’s Franklin-Brentwood and Murfreesboro editions, he covers local government, education, real estate, business, transportation and more. As a staff writer for Greenwich Time from 2000-08 and the Stamford Advocate from 2008-17, he earned multiple awards for his work from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists. He received a Master of Arts degree from Columbia Journalism School in Business & Economics in May 2018. He lives in Nashville.