DAVID WILDSTEIN, Editor
David Wildstein founded the first political news site devoted to New Jersey politics on February 1, 2000. As Wally Edge, PoliticsNJ.com, later PolitickerNJ, became “mandatory daily reading for the political class in New Jersey.” He built political news operations in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and New York. After PoliticsNJ was sold to the New York Observer, David became the executive vice president of the Observer Media Group, which launched political news sites in seventeen states with more than fifty reporters. In the early 1970s, David worked as a sports correspondent for the Star-Ledger and Daily Record — that makes him the dean of the New Jersey press corps.
David spent twenty years in the private sector at his family’s textile manufacturing company. He served as a mayor and councilman in Livingston in the 1980s, ran local, statewide, and national political campaigns, worked for a congressman and several legislators, and managed a presidential campaign. His first real job was in 1973 when he earned $100-a-year as a 12-year-old aide to a State Senator.
From 2010 to 2013, he held a top position at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey – a post that attracted a little bit of attention in New Jersey and national political circles after he admitted his role in the political scandal known as Bridgegate.
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JOEY FOX, Washington, D.C. reporter
Joey Fox is the DC reporter for the New Jersey Globe. He first joined the Globe in 2021 as a New Jersey-based reporter and moved to Washington in 2023 to cover Congress. A native of New York City, Joey is a graduate of Williams College, where he was managing editor of the Williams Record, and previously worked as a reporting intern at Gotham Gazette. His hobby – which now bears a striking resemblance to his real job – is making Wikipedia pages for elected officials and state legislative districts.
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ZACH BLACKBURN, Statehouse reporter
Zach Blackburn joined the New Jersey Globe as a Trenton-based statehouse reporter in 2024. He graduated from George Washington University, earning a degree in political communication. At The GW Hatchet, the student newspaper and the second-oldest continuously run print newspaper in Washington, D.C., Zach served as senior news editor and editor in chief. Zach was an editorial intern at National Journal’s Hotline for a year, followed by a year as a copy editor. While still in high school, Zach interned for a South Carolina state senator.
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KEVIN SANDERS, General Manager
Kevin Sanders is the owner of Mayfair Media and publisher/General Manager of New Jersey Globe. He was the general manager and head of sales at Observer New Jersey before creating and co-founding Sea of Reeds Media. Prior to that, Sanders owned and managed several small businesses. He has helped grow Sea of Reeds Media from a single property to six different media sites with authority in areas about which people have real check-in-several-times-a-day passion, including politics and culture. A trained and accomplished photographer with a deep background in Hollywood filmmaking, Kevin has also been instrumental in launching Sea of Reeds Films, which is currently in production on the company’s third offering. If you’ve got something to say to one of Sea of Reeds’ smart, engaged audiences, Sanders will work with you to create a budget and campaign that will deliver your message.
He can be reached at [email protected]
CORRECTIONS POLICY
The New Jersey Globe publishes fresh, unique content every day. Errors are regrettable but inevitable. When mistakes occur, it is our policy to address them with a correction, update, clarification or editor’s note as quickly and as transparently as possible. We want readers to understand exactly what mistake was made, the correct information that replaces or supplements it, and in some relevant cases, why the mistake occurred (Example: we misunderstood what a source was telling us vs. simply mistyping a year). While minor mistakes of spelling or grammar are corrected without special mention, mistakes that alter the thrust or understanding of a story are appended in a way that clarifies what went wrong and how it’s been corrected. We will also acknowledge when new voices appear in the story by acknowledging the time the story was updated. Sometimes, as actions are taken after our story is published, we will reflect that and notify our readers. Additionally, the New Jersey Globe includes a date and time that we reached out to an individual or organization for comment. If they respond, we will update the story and note that. If you believe a story in The New Jersey Globe is in need of correction or clarification, please email us at [email protected].