State Broadcast News continues to produce livestream broadcasts of virtual roundtable panels for NJ Spotlight News, New Jersey’s PBS news organization, with the first in a series of discussions centered around New Jersey’s climate future. The first of the series was broadcast to an audience of more than 200 viewers on February 7, focusing on the issues of storm flooding and flood management. Hundreds of additional viewers watch the roundtables on demand in the days following the live broadcasts.
The panelists were:
- Amanda Devecka-Rinear, Executive Director, New Jersey Organizing Project | New Jersey Resource Project
- Brooke Maslo, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Mark McDonough, President, New Jersey American Water, Senior Vice President, American Water
- Mayor Richard M. Onderko, Borough of Manville, New Jersey
- Jon Hurdle, Water & Environment Writer, NJ Spotlight News
The panel was moderated by Briana Vannozzi, Anchor, NJ Spotlight News
SBN streamed the live panel, with guests joining remotely on the StreamYard platform, from its studios in Cherry Hill, to an audience watching on Vimeo Live, and on SBN’s Facebook page.
NJ Spotlight makes replay recordings of roundtables available on its website along with resource documents and other materials. Visit the NJ Spotlight News landing page for this roundtable.
You can watch the replay recording in the player below.
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.
