Joe Strupp

2 weeks ago | app.com | Joe Strupp

The Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE) Local 5138, which represents 350 nurses, voted at the end of May to strike on June 9 if a deal was not reached with Hackensack Meridian Health. Union leaders said the new three-year deal followed day-long negotiation on Saturday and into the early morning hours of Sunday, ending just after 1 a.m.Southern Ocean Medical Center is one of several hospitals that have been bargaining with the union over staffing ratios.

3 weeks ago | app.com | Joe Strupp

State Monitor Louise Davis irked board members in March when she blocked the reappointment of board attorney Michael Inzelbuch. The proposed Inzelbuch contract for the 2025-2026 school year, which Davis denied, included the same $475-per hour salary that he has received in the past, which also guarantees a $600,000 payment.

3 weeks ago | app.com | Joe Strupp

Tenants among those renting five illegal dwellings at 956 East County Line Rd. say they had lived in the substandard spaces for years but signed no leases and paid rents of more than $1000 per month. They described the site as “ugly” and “smelly” and contend that septic tanks often overflowed and repairs were few and far between for leaky roofs, broken doors and limited heating options.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Joe Strupp

The recent announcement of the latest Pulitzer Prizes brought to mind how Hollywood has handled our profession over the years with many examples of newsroom drama, tragedy, suspense and occasional comedy on the big screen. Since few get to see the inside of real newsroom activities and often go only by what they see or hear on the outside, a film’s portrayal of news events and their coverage can be a key way for the power and responsibility of the press to be discovered.

1 month ago | app.com | Joe Strupp

"She Said" reaches new ground as one of the few that highlights women journalists so well. This Frank Capra classic demonstrates how news coverage can promote a worthwhile cause, but also lead to power abuse. Few movies have been remade as often as this newsroom slapstick comedy that portrays a hard-driven newspaper editor and his ex-wife ace reporter.