New from Editor & Publisher: a full conversation with our director Stefanie Murray about rebuilding local news in New Jersey. Her starting point isn't ad revenue or staffing counts. It's how we value local information in the first place, and how we pay to sustain it.

If you cover a New Jersey town, here's what you'll walk away with from our July 30 webinar: which residents are getting hit hardest by rising premiums, how GetCoveredNJ enrollment has shifted since last year, and which communities federal policy changes are squeezing.

NJ PBS is looking for a senior producer: the person who runs the newsroom's daily rundown, decides what airs and in what order, and calls the nightly newscast from the control room. @njpbs.org

Someone has to decide what New Jersey's public TV network puts on the air. That job is open. @njpbs.org is hiring a programming director to set what runs across broadcast, streaming, and digital, and keep locally made shows central. $145,000-$160,000, full time in Montclair.

Most of what local government decides in New Jersey happens in public meetings almost nobody can search. Civilio turns those meetings — town councils, school boards, county and state bodies — into plain-language summaries, searchable transcripts and source docs you can check. We ran a live demo.

Health insurance premiums in New Jersey are going up, and the numbers behind that are sitting in public data most newsrooms aren't using yet. We're hosting a free webinar on July 30 to help you find the local story in them.

When the World Cup came to New Jersey, the state's smaller newsrooms told the local story: who got priced out, what security cost, how Newark celebrated. NJ Spotlight News gathered it all through NJ News Wire, the sharing tool we run for NJ publishers.

Keeping journalists safe is easier when newsrooms plan for it together, not one outlet at a time. Our next Collabinar looks at how collaboratives assess risk and build a shared safety plan. Tuesday, July 28, noon ET, online and free.

Last chance to catch the Civilio demo — it's tomorrow. We walk through how it turns New Jersey's town council, school board, and planning board meetings into plain-language summaries you can search and trace back to the source. Online, 2 p.m. ET, free.

The person who anchors New Jersey's nightly public television newscast: that job is open. @njpbs.org is looking for someone to write and deliver the news, run live interviews, and help shape what gets covered. $95,000-$110,000, full time in Montclair.

Two days out from our Civilio demo. The idea: New Jersey's town council, school board, and planning board meetings turned into plain-language summaries, with each one linked back to the original agenda or transcript so you can check it yourself. Wednesday, July 22, 2–3 p.m. ET, free.

Over five years, one program helped move $72 million in city advertising to New York's ethnic and community media outlets. Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, who runs the Center for Community Media at CUNY, points to that number when she talks about what a journalism support group is actually for.

Someone has to turn raw footage into the packages, promos, and long-form pieces that air on NJ PBS. Right now that job is open. It is hiring a video editor: cutting for broadcast, streaming, and digital, on daily news deadlines. Full time, based in Montclair.

We're six days out from the Civilio demo. On July 22, we walk through how the tool turns New Jersey's public meetings — town councils, school boards, planning boards — into searchable, plain-language summaries anyone can check against the source record.

Montclair State University is still staffing up NJ PBS after taking over the network on July 1. Right now there are 14 open roles: an anchor, reporters for North Jersey, South Jersey and Trenton/Central Jersey, a video editor, an assignment coordinator, and several production and programming jobs.

Public meetings produce a mountain of agendas, transcripts and packets that almost nobody reads in full. Civilio turns that mountain into searchable, plain-language summaries. We're demoing it live on July 22.

Montclair State is still hiring staff to run NJ PBS, weeks after taking over from WNET on July 1. If your newsroom has been curious about getting airtime or a partnership with the new operation, this is worth reading before you reach out.

A lot of newsrooms are dealing with real safety threats right now — online harassment, legal intimidation, sometimes worse. On July 28 we're running a free session on how collaboratives can put together an actual safety plan, together instead of alone.

Highlands, Texas has an outsized cancer rate near a Superfund site. After residents and scientists held a town hall through Public Health Watch and Air Alliance Houston, the EPA issued a legally binding order to address the site about three months later.

Civilio turns New Jersey's public meetings into searchable transcripts and plain-language summaries. We're walking through how it works in a free, one-hour session on July 22.

New Jersey's public TV network has a new operator. Montclair State University took over NJ PBS on July 1, ending more than a decade of the stations being run by New York-based WNET.

Civilio covers municipal, county, school board, and state government meetings across NJ — turning them into searchable transcripts and plain-language summaries. Journalists, researchers, and community orgs: we're doing a free live walkthrough July 22. #localnews

The NJCIC has put more than $12 million into NJ journalism since 2018 — 50 grantees, 220 jobs. It started with a 2016 meeting at Montclair State, and it's anchored the local-news ecosystem we work in. Pressing Issues looks at how it got built and why it's at risk.

Civilio exists because, as CCM director Stefanie Murray puts it, "communities benefit when journalists and residents have better tools to access, verify, and understand local government information." July 22 we're showing exactly what that looks like in practice.

What can you actually do with Civilio? On July 22 we're walking through it live — how it captures NJ public meetings, turns them into searchable transcripts and summaries, and links every claim back to the source document. Free, online, one hour.

We partnered with Civilio and the NJ Civic Information Consortium to make New Jersey's public meetings searchable and verifiable. On July 22, we're doing a free online walkthrough so you can see exactly what it does.

iMEdD's Media Hat newsletter flagged Joe Amditis' Claude Code collection this month: prompts built for the actual work of journalism — FOIA requests, source verification, fact-checking, OSINT. Less "AI for everything," more the specific thing you need today. #journalism #localnews

New Jersey runs on public meetings: town councils, school boards, planning boards. Most of what happens in them never reaches the people it affects. We've joined the NJ Civic Information Consortium and Civilio to change that, with a statewide tool called Civilio NJ.

What does it take to build a local news outlet that can stand for 100 years? That's the question we're bringing to The Stone Pony in Asbury Park on July 1, with publishers, editors and reporters from across Jersey in the room.

Running the local news in 2026 is hard work. On July 1, we're putting hundreds of the people who do it in one room at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park. Publishers, editors, reporters, sales leads, founders. If you carry the torch for a Jersey newsroom, this one's for you.