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On this episode of the Lubetkin on Communications podcast, we present this year\'s "Meet the Media" panel, sponsored by the New Jersey Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. The panel was held March 30, 2017 at Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ.

The panelists were:

• Karin Price Mueller, writes the Bamboozled consumer\\xa0affairs column and a money column for The Star-Ledger/NJ.com; and is\\xa0Founder of\\xa0consumer finance website NJMoneyHelp.com.\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0She lives in N.J. with her husband \\u2013 Star-Ledger\\xa0reporter Mark\\xa0Mueller \\u2013 their three kids and an English Mastiff, Mojo.\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0Whatever they don\\u2019t eat goes\\xa0into her retirement savings accounts.
• Nick Corasaniti, a reporter that covers\\xa0politics for The New York Times, and is in his home state focusing on the\\xa0governor\\u2019s race\\xa0and any other NJ story or interest, from infrastructure to\\xa0crime to dining.\\xa0\\xa0Before coming\\xa0back to NJ, Nick covered the presidential\\xa0campaign, spending his days on the road\\xa0with Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, and Donald Trump.
• Charell\\xa0Star\\xa0is a digital journalist who covers the latest styles,\\xa0technology and trends as a contributor for Marie Claire, Fox5\\u2013Good Day New\\xa0York, NBC New York Live, Second Look TV, and various broadcast and digital\\xa0media outlets.\\xa0\\xa0She also has her\\xa0own lifestyle blog, Not Just A Girl In A Dress, plus blogs for Sister 2 Sister,\\xa0eHow, VinePair, MommyNoire, and MadameNoire.\\xa0\\xa0In 2015, she was awarded Black Enterprise Magazine\\u2019s\\xa0\\u201cFollow-Worthy Blogger of the Year.\\u201d
• Gwen Orel, Features Editor, The\\xa0Montclair Local.\\xa0\\xa0Gwen served as\\xa0arts editor of The Montclair Times from 2013 to 2016 before\\xa0joining The\\xa0Montclair local.\\xa0\\xa0She has won a\\xa0variety of writing awards and has contributed to a range of publications\\xa0including\\xa0New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and more.\\xa0\\xa0She has a PhD in theatre, and when not\\xa0doing her day job, is a playwrite, and\\xa0runs the website New York Irish Arts.com.\\xa0\\xa0The has three cats \\u2013 one of which likes\\xa0to unwind the toilet paper roll.
• Phil Alongi, Executive Producer, NJTV\\xa0News and Director of Program Development.\\xa0\\xa0He oversees all news operations for NJTV,\\xa0including its flagship\\xa0weeknight news program NJTV News with Mary Alice Williams, and is responsible\\xa0for the network\\u2019s\\xa0program expansion in the areas of news, public affairs, arts\\xa0and other genres.\\xa0\\xa0He began his\\xa0broadcast career at NBC News in\\xa01997, and during his tenure, produced for the\\xa0NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and more.\\xa0\\xa0When he\\u2019s not being a news junkie, he\\xa0moonlights as a professional\\xa0operatic tenor and has multiple televised performances and dozens of leading\\xa0roles throughout the\\xa0U.S. to his credit.
• Richard Cowen, a reporter for The\\xa0Record.\\xa0\\xa0He covers news, the\\xa0courts, and Passaic County, covering N.J. for more than 25 years.\\xa0\\xa0His focus is local reporting with deep\\xa0knowledge and sourcing in Passaic County.\\xa0\\xa0He\\u2019s covered many big stories: from 9/11 to\\xa0Bridgegate, fires\\xa0floods, and various political corruption schemes.\\xa0\\xa0He considers himself a citizen journalist whose advocacy is\\xa0the\\xa0public\\u2019s Right to Know.\\xa0\\xa0Richard lives in Montclair with with his firebrand wife,\\xa0Gisela, who is teacher.
• Charlie Kratovil, is the Co-Founder & Editor,\\xa0New Brunswick Today, a bilingual community newspaper that has been covering\\xa0Middlesex County since 2011.\\xa0\\xa0He\\xa0graduated from Rutgers\\u2019 School of Communication & Information in 2009 and\\xa0subsequently\\xa0launched Paterson Press, a successful hyperlocal news project in\\xa0Paterson during his time working at The Citizens Campaign.

Moderating the panel was Ken Hunter, APR, president of PowerStation Communications, Hillsborough, NJ, a member of the PRSA-NJ Board of Directors and Membership Co-Chair.

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