At the risk of seeming gauche, we wanted to share a recent Columbia Journalism Review story that features the Jersey City Independent and NEW magazine as part of a new trend: digital news startups that are branching into print. I was interviewed for the piece, which looks at us and three other small news organizations [...]
When we upgraded our Content Management System over the weekend, it appears to have compromised our old RSS feed, and that feed hasn’t had a new update since Monday, July 11. We’d been wanting to change our feed over anyway, so this provided the perfect opportunity. Our new RSS feed location is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheJerseyCityIndependent
As we celebrate the release of our Spring 2011 issue, we at NEW Magazine and JCI have even more exciting news to share with our readers: we’re going quarterly! Beginning with the current issue, NEW will be coming out four times each year instead of two, as we continue to evolve, to both cater to [...]
We’re happy to announce today that we’re partnering with our friends at the statewide nonprofit news organization NJ Spotlight to bring you a new web-based tool to find accurate and accessible information about the local schools. The Jersey City School Report Card is part of NJ Spotlight‘s statewide School Report Card, and they’ve teamed up [...]
If you ever wanted to know about our co-publisher and associate editor’s drinking habits, well this is your lucky week. The Jersey City Bar Guide caught up with Shane Smith for its latest “What Are They Drinking?” column; here’s a taste (*pun intended*): The way some people (‘foodies’) enjoy learning about and experiencing food, I [...]
The Jersey City Independent and NEW Magazine are looking for a food writer to cover the growing dining scene and food-related news in New Jersey’s second-largest city. The ideal candidate will have some journalism experience and a keen interest in the restaurants/bars industry and broader food-related issues. The position will entail writing long-form features, short [...]
We’re happy to announce that Catherine Hecht has joined the Jersey City Independent team as sales manager. Hecht, who will handle all sales for both the Independent and NEW magazine, most recently worked as the associate publisher for the New York Blade and HX Magazine and has spent the last 10 years doing PR, marketing, [...]
Just a quick housekeeping note. You’ll likely see fewer blog posts from me this week, and I just wanted to let you know why — because it’s pretty exciting. I landed in Los Angeles yesterday and immediately got settled into what is going to be an intense week-long “boot camp” on entrepreneurial journalism. I’m one [...]
It’s been a busy week for our print publication, the twice-yearly magazine NEW. I wanted to bring you all up to speed real quick here. Last Thursday, we had a good number of you join us to celebrate the magazine’s release at the Iron Monkey; thanks to everyone who came out. We wanted to give [...]
Pardon the interruption here, folks. In the interest of transparency and reader accountability, we want to make you aware of a major editorial decision that has unfolded over the past few days. On Friday afternoon, we published our usual detailed Council Report; it included Shane Smith’s reportage on a heated exchange between former mayor Gerald [...]
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