Meet the staff at The Rochester Voice

The editor and publisher of The Rochester Voice is Harrison Thorp, who has worked at newspapers in Maine, New Hampshire, Virginia and Massachusetts before beginning The Lebanon Voice in 2012.

In 2017 The Rochester Voice replaced The Lebanon Voice to focus on the city of Rochester. The Rochester Voice has been critically acclaimed winning 19 Distinguished Journalism awards from the New Hampshire Press Association since 2019, including excellace awards in Digitial Presence, Community Service and First Amendment.

In 2024 Mr. Thorp won the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communication First Amendment Award, a statewide honor.

While serving as editor for the former Foster's Sunday Citizen in the early 2000s he won three straight Best New Hampshire Sunday newspaper awards.

In 2022 The Rochester Voice was named Rochester Business of the Year by The Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Thorp penned the novel Freak the News in 2010, a suspense drama set inside a raucous, ribald newsroom at a corrupt Maine newspaper.

Martha T. Soto Galicia is the president of The Rochester Voice. Ms. Soto-Galicia as a child escaped with her family from Cuba and Fidel Castro's communist regime, settling in Miami.

Prior to working at The Rochester Voice, she worked in public relations, developing and implementing marketing and promotional campaigns for the Comedy Fix Traffic School of Sunrise, Fla.

Earlier in her career she served as an account executive for TV Time Inc. of Miami, where she negotiated contracts for time and space in all forms of media including newspapers and television.

Ms. Soto Galicia has also worked as a legal secretary.

Her creative outlets include stand-up comedy.

Ms. Soto Galicia resides in Miami, Fla.