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WGT Staff | About GAR Media | GAR Media's Principals | About WGT | WGT Highlights
THE WILD GEESE TODAY STAFF:
Managing Editor: Joseph E. Gannon, jgann@thewildgeese.com
Producer: Gerry Regan, ger@thewildgeese.com
Associate Producer: Tom Madigan, tmadigan@thewildgeese.com
Heritage Editor: John C. Concannon, narrowback@thewildgeese.com
Contributing Editors:
Chuck Laverty ("Brigadier"), brigadier@thewildgeese.com
Kevin O'Beirne, kob@thewildgeese.com
David Tereshchuk, tereshchuk@thewildgeese.com
Mailing Address: GAR Media, 38-11 Ditmars Blvd., #193, Astoria NY 11105-1803
Telephone: 718-545-1216
Fax: 208-978-9998
About GAR Media LLC: New York City-based GAR Media was created by history devotees Gerry Regan, Joseph E. Gannon and Micah Chandler in July 1997. The mission they assumed: Bring epic and compelling history to vast and ever burgeoning Internet audiences. The trio launched their flagship product, The Wild Geese Today webzine, in the Fall 1997. Today owned by Regan and Gannon, the venture remains devoted to its original mission of "Forging New Frontiers for the Past."
GAR Media's Principals:
Gerry Regan (ger@garmedia.com), Editorial Director. Gerry has a rich background in journalism, American and Irish history, and New Media. He has studied modern British and Irish history in Trinity College, Dublin, and is a contributing writer to the Irish Echo, The Civil War News, The Washington Times, Newsday, and various other publications. He also worked a staff writer and copy editor for Gannett Westchester Newspapers and USA Today. He worked for Prodigy Services Inc. as a news editor, as a producer Newsday's award-winning web site, newsday.com, and as copy editor at office.com. Gerry is a magna-cum-laude graduate of Duke University, majoring in mathematics and has a Masters degree in journalism from New York University.
Joseph E Gannon (jgann@garmedia.com), Research Director. Based in Connecticut, Joe is a talented writer, editor and researcher and devotee of both the online world and military history. Joe attended the University of Connecticut, and is a US Army veteran who served in the Military Police in Vietnam in 1971-72. He has an extensive background researching both Irish and Civil War history, and is a contributor to the newsletter of the 27th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, which is one of the largest such organizations in the USA. He is a research librarian at a corporate library.
About WGT: The Wild Geese Today (www.TheWildGeese.com), the leading Irish history and heritage Internet site, was established in Fall 1997 to share "The Epic History and Heritage of the Irish" with the immense number of individuals of Irish ancestry found worldwide. The site daily draws more than 600 visits per day, a figure that has been steadily growing. WGT has recently begun efforts to syndicate its dozens of features to print publications worldwide.
WGT's Highlights:
July 1997: History devotees Gerry Regan, Joseph E. Gannon and Micah Chandler launch GAR Media to utilize the Internet and other New Media to create editorial products that appeal to those who shared their interest in history. The trio decides to make The Wild Geese Today their flagship site.
Fall 1997: Under the direction of Joe Gannon, WGT launches, with a very modest, but fast-growing readership.
December 1997: WGT establishes The Wild Geese Forum, in cooperation with Delphi Forums, to enhance interactivity with its growing international community.
March 1998: Micah Chandler, who handled the site's graphic design duties, resigns. WGT experiments with a daily edition, but the experiment is abandoned after several months, proving too labor intensive.
May 1998: WGT switches from a daily to weekly updating.
July 1998: WGT, with a staff of six volunteer correspondents on the scene, offer same-day coverage of Irish-America's participation in the 135th anniversary Battle of Gettysburg re-enactment, the largest American Civil War re-enactment in history. WGT's news reports went out via e-mail to its list subscribers every evening of the four-day event, and its reports, and exclusive photos, were later posted in WGT's pages.
January 1999: Traffic to WGT reaches 250-300 visits per day, and the site's e-mail update list reaches 500.
March 1999: Jerusalem-based Virtual Communities Inc. licenses WGT's popular "This Week in the History of the Irish" for use on its new launches Virtual Ireland www.virtualireland.com site. The relationship continues for six months, until GAR Media withdraws from the partnership.
July 2001: WGT joins with Civil War Interactive, the most popular Civil War history Internet destination, to present the story of "'You Have Got Your Chance at Last': The Irish at First Manassas," in conjunction with the 140th anniversary re-enactment of the Battle of First Manassas. WGT also becomes an Amazon Associate, selling items from Amazon's huge inventory of books and electronics.
October 2001: The Wild Geese Forum draws its 10,000th message, posted by a forum member from County Down, Northern Ireland, reflecting the sometimes raucous diversity found in the Forum's threads.
January 2002: WGT moves from a weekly to a monthly edition. The site routinely attracts more than 600 visits per day, and draws the 600th subscriber to its e-mail update list. The site pulls 989 visits on Jan. 7, which remains WGT's all-time high number of visitors in a single day. WGT joins Powells Books associate program.
February 2002: Despite its move to a monthly publishing frequency, WGT continues to draw an average of 650 visits to the site every day.
March 2002: WGT recruits former Ancient Order of Hibernians National Historian John J. Concannon to create a regular Heritage column, and UN media adviser David Tereshchuk, a former TV news and documentary producer, as a consultant and contributing editor. GAR Media begins working with its contributing writers to syndicate its scores of historical features to print publications, including newspapers and magazines.
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