Maximilian Eyle, Central Current's new executive director. Credit: Mike Greenlar | Central Current

Dear reader,

My name is Maximilian Eyle, and I am the new executive director of Central Current. I will be taking over Central Current’s business and fundraising operations, and I am excited to grow the community we have built through our investigative coverage of Central New York. 

The mission and focus of Central Current grabbed my attention long before I ever considered joining our team. If you are reading this, you also have a thirst to be better informed about how decisions are made in our community, how Syracuse’s past influences our present, and what our civic leaders are doing to secure our future.

I see Syracuse on the cusp of something amazing. We need a news ecosystem to match that. This community, one I’ve gotten to know over the last 31 years here, deserves it. 

I grew up on Onondaga Avenue in the family home that I still live in today. I walk my dog in the same park where my mom and dad used to take me as a child, and which I used to cut through while walking to Roberts and Corcoran as a student. Being born in Syracuse may not have been my choice, but staying here most certainly has been. This city and the greater CNY region is a community I have fallen in love with over and over again. I get older and my interests change – I have become even more aware and convinced of the opportunities and beauty to be found here.

For more about Maximilian

Check out Rick Wright’s interview with Maximilian at this link on April 4.

Central Current has the potential to help guide Syracuse into its future. Our journalism can ensure that this work happens in public and that our neighbors have critical information about what is happening in their communities. 

Syracuse does not currently have enough reporters to make that happen. Changes in the media landscape have caused newsrooms here and across the country to atrophy, and the cost of this has been felt at all levels of our community. Our future depends on us finding new ways to sustainably rebuild our local news institutions, and Central Current is part of a national movement of independent nonprofit news outlets that are rising to meet this challenge head on.

As Executive Director, I will be focused on giving our newsroom the resources to add those reporters. I will help Central Current strengthen and expand our revenue sources, grow our readership, and fortify the administrative strength of our internal operations – freeing up our reporters to do what they do best.

Prior to joining Central Current, I worked in the nonprofit communications sector for eight years in partnership with organizations across New York State. In 2021, I formally joined the staff of The Gifford Foundation where I had the opportunity to study organizational development, grantmaking, and community engagement firsthand for over three years. As a Syracuse native, the opportunity to leverage these experiences to help give back to the community that raised me is a challenge I am excited to take on.

Together, I am confident that we can continue to grow the impact of the nonpartisan news we deliver to your inbox and ultimately bring you inside the events that will define life in CNY for generations to come.

Thank you for your support,

Maximilian Eyle

Executive Director

Central Current

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Maximilian Eyle is the executive director of Central Current, overseeing the business side of the organization. He has more than a decade of experience working in the communications sector with a focus...