Jennifer Wager | Newark, NJ | (913) 877-1937 | E-mail | Twitter | Website
Essex Voices covers news, events and culture in the greater Newark metropolitan area. Content for the site is produced by Essex County College Communications and New Media Technology students. It was founded by Jennifer Wager, an instructor at the college. Essex Voices was the first New Voices project based at a community college.
Project Updates
- Holding Workshops, Facing Challenges (May, 2011) - This first year has had its challenges and rewards. Most rewarding has been the fact that participants have produced some amazing pieces on issues/topics from perspectives that we often do not see in our local media. Inspiring an appreciation and respect for community media in students and community residents has been something that I didn’t […]
- Essex Voices Strives to Find its Voice (February, 2011) - Essex Voices, a multimedia news site covering Newark, N.J., from Essex County Community College, is up and running. The focus now turns to the challenge of developing a strategic plan for content that will reach the community, reports professor and project coordinator Jennifer Wager. Her approach from the start, incorporated into her mission statement, is […]
