Daniel Caruso, a reporter for 35 years, dies at 94

Daniel J. Caruso, a reporter for several Central Jersey newspapers and later a journalism professor at Rider University, died on March 30.  He was 94.

Caruso worked for the Home News, the Courier News, and the Courier-Post, along with the Long Branch Daily Record and the Shrewsbury-based Daily Register.

His 35-year career spanned from 1958 to 1993.

Before becoming suburban editor of the Courier News, Caruso had been briefly assigned as the Courier-Post statehouse reporter.   He covered the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, where he closely followed a story that President Lyndon B. Johnson was considering Robert Meyner, the former two-term governor of New Jersey, for the vice presidency

Caruso was a U.S. Army veteran.

He is survived by his wife of 70 years, Ann, his two daughters, four grandchildren, and a great-grandson.  His son, Larry, predeceased him.