SBN’s latest livestreamed virtual roundtable for NJ Spotlight featured a panel of educators and a student leader discussing how the coronavirus pandemic is complicating back-to-school considerations in New Jersey.
New Jersey is among states that have largely contained the COVID-19 virus outbreak. But as hundreds of public school districts and private education institutions develop their fall instruction and attendance plans, concerns arise about how best to teach students and keep both children and adults safe.
Panelists were:
Fatimah Hayes, High School History Teacher, Pennsauken School District; former President, Pennsauken Education Association
Dr. Arlene Rogo, Vice President, Principal, Neptune Middle School; Coordinator, Monmouth County Elementary/Middle School Administrators Association
Dr. Brian Zychowski, Superintendent of Schools, North Brunswick Township
Sabrina Capoli, Senior, Seneca High School, Tabernacle, Student Representative to NJ State Board of Education
John Mooney, founding editor and education reporter for NJ Spotlight moderated the conversation.
Watch the broadcast in this player:
SBN produced the live video using the vMix broadcast platform feeding the program output to the Vimeo Live livestream site. For more information on how we produce live news broadcasts, email steve@statebroadcastnews.com.
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Steve Lubetkin is the news director for StateBroadcastNews.com. Steve’s journalism background includes print and broadcast reporting for NJ news organizations. He refocused on multimedia journalism and podcast production after a long career in corporate branded journalism and public relations.
He has won numerous awards for his audio and video news reporting from the Garden State Journalists Association, and he has also been recognized for video by the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has produced a wide range of audio and video podcasts in his other role as managing partner of State Broadcast News’s parent, The Lubetkin Media Companies.
Steve is co-author, with Toronto-based podcasting pioneer Donna Papacosta, of the book, The Business of Podcasting: How to Take Your Podcasting Passion from the Personal to the Professional.
In March 2021, he was elected to the board of directors of the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and in July 2021 he was named secretary of the chapter. In August 2021, he was honored by SPJ with one of the organization’s 2021 Howard S. Dubin Outstanding Pro Member Awards, given to regular members of an SPJ chapter who go above and beyond in serving their chapter.
Steve has been the computer columnist for the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, since 1996.
Steve also has reported on-camera and produces virtual conferences for NJSpotlightNews.org, a public policy news coverage website focused on New Jersey government and industry; and for clients of StateBroadcastNews.com, a division of The Lubetkin Media Companies LLC.
From May-November 2019, he produced and reported a weekly podcast, The CRE News Hour, a news and features program focusing on the commercial real estate industry.
From 2014 to 2019 he was New Jersey and Philadelphia editor for GlobeSt.com and filled in covering Chicago/Midwest and Atlanta.
Steve has also served (from August 2017 to March 2018) as national broadcast news correspondent for CEOReport.com, a news website focused on practical advice for senior executives in small- and medium-sized companies.
Earlier in his career, Steve reported on rock music at the Jersey Shore for the Asbury Park Press, and was a broadcast news anchor and production engineer for WJLK-AM & FM, then owned by the Press. He also worked as a general assignment reporter for the Red Bank Register, Shrewsbury, NJ.
You can email Steve at steve@statebroadcastnews.com.
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