Articles by Steve Lubetkin

IMPORTANT! Contest changes

Contest_Feedback_graphicTO OUR CONSTITUENTS:
We are proposing some significant changes to our annual New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists contest this year, and we would like your input. We intend to make two major changes to the contest categories.
Here’s the

Learn to podcast

black background_podcasting workshop_revised_v 4Join us Sun., Nov. 15 for an NJ-SPJ workshop that will teach you the basics of podcasting and also focus on what content works best for this medium. The workshop, to be held from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at New Jersey Institute …


NJ-SPJ tours NJTV

Behind a bank of cameras and glass panels, NJTV news anchor Mary Alice Williams interviewed her guest as we watched from the walkway at 2 Gateway Center during our NJ Society of Professional Journalists’ tour on Oct. 22.

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My EIJ 1.0

EIJ2015JlogoArmed with information I ripped from my copy of “Quill” magazine, a coupon for the airport shuttle bus and the EIJ15 app, I headed to my first Society of Professional Journalists’ Excellence in Journalism (EIJ) 2015 Conference in Florida last …


Weinberg pulls transparency bills

Legislative alert_158x57Bad news for open government.

Noting there were not enough votes to get the two bills that would update the state’s sunshine laws out of committee, State Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Teaneck) took both bills off the state Senate Budget and …