February 24, 2022 – Newark, NJ – NJ PBS, New Jersey’s public television network, announced that its news division, NJ Spotlight News, has welcomed a new correspondent to its team. Ted Goldberg will contribute to the newsroom’s on-air and online coverage beginning this week, reporting directly to Jamie Kraft, Senior Managing Editor of NJ Spotlight News. His coverage will have a strong focus on the people and issues of South Jersey.

“We are thrilled to have Ted join the NJ Spotlight News team,” said Kraft. “He brings extensive, multiplatform news reporting experience with a strong regional focus, making him ideal to deep dive into the intricacies of the issues of our local communities. We are focusing his skills to cover South Jersey, helping us expand our reporting and storytelling in that part of the state.”

A New Jersey native, Ted Goldberg was most recently a multimedia journalist for Spectrum News in Buffalo, where he investigated, filmed and edited impactful stories from the Buffalo and Rochester area. He also sub-anchored their local newscast, engaged on social media with viewers and covered the major sports teams in the region. Previously, Goldberg covered sports for Time Warner Cable News in Syracuse and Binghamton, NY. He has a BS in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University and now resides in the Garden State with his wife, calling Union County his home.

Goldberg will contribute to the newsroom’s broadcast program, NJ Spotlight News with Briana Vannozzi, which airs weeknights at 6 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. on NJ PBS, and digitally on its website, NJSpotlightNews.org.

Major funding for NJ Spotlight News and NJ Spotlight News with Briana Vannozzi is provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the William Penn Foundation, the Fund for New Jersey, RWJBarnabas Health, NJM Insurance Group, New Jersey Education Association, Orsted, PSEG Foundation, The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation and Wyncote Foundation.

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NJ PBS, New Jersey’s public television network, brings quality arts, education, and public affairs programming to all 21 counties in the state. Headquartered at the Agnes Varis NJ PBS Studio in Newark, with additional studio space at New Jersey City University, the network offers diverse local programs including Chat Box with David Cruz, NJ Business Beat with Rhonda Schaffler, Here’s the Story, Drive By History, One-on-One with Steve Adubato, Reporters Roundtable with David Cruz and State of the Arts and PBS favorites such as Nature, NOVA, Amanpour and Company and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. Its award-winning newsroom provides multiplatform reporting from across the Garden State on its weeknight newscast, NJ Spotlight News with Briana Vannozzi, and digitally via NJSpotlightNews.org, plus live news specials, roundtable discussions and daily newsletters. The MyNJPBS.org network website offers streaming programs and free digital resources for educators via PBS LearningMedia New Jersey. NJ PBS is operated under an agreement with the state of New Jersey by Public Media NJ, Inc. (PMNJ), a non-profit affiliate of The WNET Group, parent company of award-winning New York public television stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21.