Print Publishing: Regional Newspaper

Beginning December 2010, following a year as an early start-up local news website, I changed formats to print newspaper. Here are several hyperlinked front cover images that will bring you to their associated editions.

News Publishing: Serving the Web

From late January to mid-December 2010, the Riverside Signal was first established and published as a standalone website (no mobile or tablet compatibility, as those things were just starting to be figured out). After three years as a print product, in Spring 2014 it returned to a new, upgraded mobile- and tablet-friendly site.

Digital Publishing: Town-by-Town News E-Readers

Starting in early 2015, I developed a new emailed news service for each of the seven towns covered by the Riverside Signal, combining news, arts, heritage, events and more, through Constant Contact. Readership was approximately 2,000 per edition. Click any masthead (which I also custom designed to mirror some aspect of each community) below to view samples of each.

Social Media in an Emergency: The Storm

When Hurricane Sandy struck in late October 2012, the region was less prepared as a direct result of Hurricane Irene, a storm that fizzled out the year before. Here are some bulletins and aftermath photos captured once “ground zero,” the barrier island, was opened up to press access.

Hook to Cape: Newsletter Editor, JSHN

Beginning in January 2016, I was invited to helm a thrice-weekly digital news bulletin operation for Jersey Shore Hurricane News, South Seaside Park.

From concept to execution, working alongside JSHN founder Justin Auciello, we produced a neat little package that included intro and outro tagged photos from the four-county shore area, regular weather news, article and feature lead-ins, event postings, a regional news collection service called Shorepoints plus interchangeable culture and history sections as This Week in Shore History, Coastal Reader, Shore Navigator and Dancing in the Dark.

Print Publishing: Municipal Newsletters

Starting in June 2011, I took on a part-time role providing articles, photography and overall design plus logo creation to Pine Beach Connections, a seasonal municipal newsletter.

Social Media: Ballooning Reach & Readership

Although the Riverside Signal had a social media presence from its start, in late 2009, 2015 proved to be a a high point in our numbers.

Beachwood: Digging Up, Comparing and Rewriting History

Beginning in 2007-08, I formed the Beachwood Historical Alliance, a small community group to collect, review and produce multimedia archives on the history of Beachwood Borough, a small community on the lower bank of the Toms River formed in 1914-15 as a newspaper subscription promotion community of the New York Tribune. The effort continues today as BeachwoodHistory.com.

Videos Along the Jersey Shore: Snippets of Local Life

Here are some various simple videos for the local mid-Ocean County region both in my capacity with Ocean County College TV-20, where I worked part time, and the Riverside Signal news service.

Jersey Shore, By Way of Mongolia

In Winter 2018, I was invited to cover the Monmouth University Peace Corps Program by friend and MU professor, Frank Cipriani.

The Jersey Shore is going to Mongolia!

No, not the group of infamous orange television “Bennies” whose reign of fame many locals can’t wait to fade like a winter tan, but a care package of tangible local “artifacts” collected by Monmouth University Peace Corps Prep Program students that will open the cultural doors and, they hope, minds to what we live, love and do for fun here.

“You can’t send a bagel, you can’t really send a pork roll; you have to find something that represents it,” said MU Peace Corps Volunteer Preparatory Program Prof. Frank D. Cipriani, whose daughter, Emma, is currently serving as a teacher in the federal program where the package will be sent. “Things that people at a school in Mongolia, kids would want to play with or want to touch.”