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Local reporter arrested covering George Floyd protest in Asbury Park

June 2, 2020 9:31 amJune 2, 2020 11:50 am

Gustavo Martinez Contreras, a multi-media journalist for the Asbury Park Press, was arrested during a Monday night protest against police brutality on Monday evening. Martinez tweeted at 3:52 AM that he was “just released from the Belmar PD headquarters with...

Gannett will run three South Jersey newspapers as part of Pennsylvania operation

May 16, 2020 8:24 pm

Gannett is consolidating news operations in Pennsylvania and South Jersey into a new operation headed by Shane Fitzgerald, the Atlantic Sub-Regional Executive Editor for GateHouse Media’s 24 newspapers, including the Burlington County Times and the New Jersey Herald. Fitzgerald shifted...

Martino named news director of Courier News, Home News Tribune

February 4, 2019 10:48 am

Veteran sportswriter Joe Martino has been named news director of the Courier News, Home News Tribune and MyCentralJersey.com. He succeeds Paul Grzella, who took an early retirement package offered by Gannett, the parent company of the two daily newspapers. Martino...