Jesse Winter Email & Phone Number

Union County, New Jersey, United States

Westfield, New Jersey, United States

As a writer with the Westfield Leader I covered town council and local municipal board meetings. My responsibilities included reporting on the Union County Board of County Commissioners and writing feature stories on a range of topics. I contributed significantly to the publication’s coverage of the 2021 General Elections, specifically publishing stories covering Westfield’s Town Council race.

Union County, New Jersey, United States

Morris County, New Jersey, United States

• As the editor of the Florham Park Eagle and staff writer for the Madison Eagle I covered local news, such as municipal government and school board meetings throughout both communities.• My responsibilities also included seeking out feature stories about people and organizations of interest including profiles and events with a strong local resonance.• For the Florham Park Eagle, I also wrote a weekly editorial and sometimes a column. My editorials were used by our sister newspapers within New Jersey Hills Media.• Editorial duties for the Florham Park Eagle were managed through the TownNews program / software. • Moreover, I was responsible for the stories appearing in our weekly edition which was also published digitally through our website, with the stories or ‘asset’ often published online once viewed and approved by my managing editor and the publisher.• The story and its assets included photos and other media like video via YouTube, or a related story with an embedded link.• Finally, I worked directly with the production editors responsible for paginating the Florham Park Eagle. These responsibilities included organizing the pages — determining where stories and content would appear in the paper as they were going through the pagination process.

Cranford, New Jersey, United States

Essex County, New Jersey, United States

Freelance Writer - TAPinto West Orange, West Orange, NJ. 12/ 2018-6/2019Reported on Town Council Meetings and other municipal news including the Township’s Purchase of the Rock Spring Golf Course and human interest stories.

Bachelors, Philosophy

Continuing Education, Journalism

Feature Writing for Print and Digital. 2016 Research & Writing the News 2014