The New Jersey Globe is growing.
Joey Fox is headed to Washington, D.C. early next month to begin a new assignment as the New Jersey Globe’s Capitol Hill reporter, where he’ll cover the state’s congressional delegation as well as New Jersey news coming out of the Biden administration, the federal judiciary, and national political parties.
To replace him, the New Jersey Globe is hiring a New Jersey-based political reporter for an expanded reporting staff to focus on state and local elections.
The New Jersey press corps does not currently have a single D.C.-based reporter covering New Jersey issues, the first time in more than 100 years that’s been the case.
In December 2018, Herb Jackson, the D.C. correspondent for the Gannett-owned Bergen Record, accepted a departure package and wasn’t replaced. Then, this past March, the Star-Ledger laid off congressional reporter Jonathan Salant, claiming that their readers “are most interested in local, NJ-focused content that can’t be obtained from other sources” – leaving New Jersey with zero Washington-based reporters.
“For most of this year, New Jerseyans haven’t had anyone in DC covering the issues they care about,” said New Jersey Globe general manager Kevin Sanders. “That’s totally unacceptable for a state with 9 million residents and 14 members of the Senate and House representing them. The New Jersey Globe is going to fix this.”
(Soon after he was let go, Salant took a job at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette covering western Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation and was inducted into the Washington chapter of the Journalism Hall of Fame two weeks ago. Jackson’s career continues to flourish as the politics editor at Roll Call.)
Fox joined the New Jersey Globe in August 2021 following his graduation from Williams College, where he was managing editor of the Williams Record.
Applications for the new reporter position at the New Jersey Globe can be sent to david@njglobe.com.