Articles by Steve Lubetkin

NJ-SPJ supports bills amending state transparency laws

unnamedNJ-SPJ officers Ron Miskoff and Miriam Ascarelli were at a state Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee hearing in Trenton yesterday supporting proposed legislation to update and modernize NJ’s Open Public Meetings Act (OMPA) and Open Public Records Act (OPRA). Also …


Celebrate our winners on June 27

We’ll be honoring the winners of this year’s NJ-SPJ Excellence in Journalism Awards on June 27 in a two-part celebration in Newark. The festivities begin with a reception at the Robert Treat Hotel, 50 Park Pl., followed by a 3 …


The best of New Jersey journalism

Editor’s note: Several categories were inadvertently left off of our original winners list. The list has since been corrected, and it can be found here as well as in the link embedded in the text below.

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Contest deadline extended to March 11!

deadline image_Wed., March 11You can breathe a sigh of relief. We’re extending the NJ-SPJ Contest deadline to 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, March 11.

Why? This year’s NJ-SPJ Excellence in Journalism awards contest got off on a late start. We had been scheduled to begin …


Enter our contest NOW!

Time_to_enterTime’s a tickin’, and we’re in the count-down phase to our March 1 deadline for our annual Excellence in Journalism Contest.  To submit your work, all you have to do is click onto www.betterbnc.com and create an “open call” account. …