| July 11, 2023 – NEWARK, NJ – NJ PBS announced that its newsroom, NJ Spotlight News, is part of a new statewide news collaboration providing reports on segregation in schools across New Jersey. The special series entitled Segregated launches today, Tuesday, July 11 on a new website, segregatednj.org, as well as partner websites, with ongoing coverage over the next several weeks.
NJ Spotlight News joins more than a dozen other news organizations including WNYC Public Radio, Montclair Local, Morristown Green, the Atlantic City Press and others to examine racial issues and divides within and surrounding New Jersey’s school districts. All participating media organizations will publish content on their own sites and to the initiative website that covers a variety of subjects related to segregation, from racial compositions of local student bodies and faculty to disparities in opportunities and related housing issues. The project will provide demographic data and more for every district and school in the Garden State.
“Working with news organizations across the region to investigate a topic like segregation in schools enables more robust reporting from more perspectives than any one of our organizations could do on its own,” said John Mooney, NJ Spotlight News’ founding editor and a contributing writer to the project. “Sharing our coverage with these newsrooms further amplifies and expands the reach of these stories, so more New Jerseyans can learn from it.”
On Tuesday, July 11, NJ Spotlight News’ first stories on the school segregation issue with stakeholder interviews, in addition to being posted on the project’s website, will post on NJSpotlightNews.org and be featured on its newscast, NJ Spotlight News with Briana Vannozzi, which airs weeknights at 6pm, 7:30pm and 11pm on NJ PBS (check local listings). WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show is also expected to interview Mooney about the project that day.
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