About

The Fairfield County Bee was launched in 2023 as a way to showcase the best of the Fairfield area.

We believe that local lifestyle journalism is crucial to a thriving community, as a way to promote and support local businesses, share events and happenings, and bring people together around common interests.

Meet the Team

Kaitlin Madden Armon, Founder and Editor

Kaitlin Madden Armon is an Easton, CT resident and a Connecticut native with nearly 15 years of experience as a lifestyle journalist.

She got her start in local lifestyle journalism while living in Chicago, where she worked as the deputy editor of Michigan Avenue Magazine, a luxury lifestyle magazine. While in Chicago, she covered local lifestyle news for Chicago Magazine, Modern Luxury Interiors, Refinery 29, and Haute Living, and ran the local lifestyle blog Lux & Concord.

After moving back to the East Coast, Kaitlin was the managing and online editor of New England Home magazine, and wrote for CT Cottages & Gardens and Long Island Pulse.

In her career as a journalist and editor, Kaitlin has also written for publications like Architectural Digest, Homes & Gardens, Martha Stewart Living, Vanity Fair, and Good Housekeeping, and brands including Wayfair, Amazon, CareerBuilder.com, 1stDibs, Decorist, Maya Romanoff, The Design Network, and many more.

In 2019, she also co-founded the on-demand interior design service The Finish, based in Southport.