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Kathryn G. Menu
The Express News Group
Kathryn G. Menu, often known locally as “Georgie,” is the co-publisher of the Express News Group, which includes The East Hampton Press, The Sag Harbor Express, The Southampton Press – Eastern Edition and The Southampton Press – Western Edition, as well as 27east.com and sagharborexpress.com.
Ms. Menu is the daughter of Mary and Jack Graves. Mr. Graves has been a reporter and editor with The East Hampton Star for 54 years. Raised in East Hampton, Ms. Menu is a graduate of the former Southampton College, now Stony Brook Southampton College.
As a cub reporter, Ms. Menu worked at the former Independent newspaper from 2002 to 2004, where she met her husband and future business partner, Gavin Menu. In 2007, she was hired as a staff reporter for The Sag Harbor Express by then editor and publisher Bryan Boyhan, while her husband began his transition from sports reporter to advertising sales executive at The Press News Group in Southampton. In 2014, the couple would become co-publishers of The Sag Harbor Express, where Ms. Menu had already assumed duties as managing editor.
Under their tenure, the single-flagship newspaper thrived, with The Express Magazine doubling in circulation and advertising sales, and the new “Express Sessions” series of community events routinely selling out — sparking community conversation on critical issues, including affordable housing, water quality, arts and culture, land use, and the overall well-being of the village.
In June of 2019, it was announced that the Menu family would take-over the Press News Group, forming the new company, Express News Group.
Since the merger, the company has expanded its Express Sessions into both East Hampton and Southampton and has worked with Mr. Boyhan, who remains a consultant, designer and mentor, to rebrand Express Magazine into a regional lifestyle publication.
During the COVID-19 virus pandemic, the Express News Group doubled down on those efforts, continuing to publish the magazine and its four editions throughout the crisis and continuing the Express Sessions events in a new virtual format.
Ms. Menu and her family live in the hamlet of Springs in East Hampton, just five minutes from where she spent her own childhood. Her children — Ella, 12, and Charlie, 6 — attend Springs School.