As this year comes to a close, the news team looked back on two stories that dominated coverage in New Jersey in 2019 — NJ Transit and lead in the state’s water supply.
Correspondents Michael Hill and Briana Vannozzi provide the backstory, and then join Anchor Mary Alice Williams for more in-depth discussion.
An Emmy award-winning journalist, Briana Vannozzi serves as the anchor for NJ Spotlight News, the newsroom of NJ PBS. She's worked in several capacities since joining the news division in 2012, as interim anchor and senior correspondent after years of general assignment reporting as a multimedia journalist. Vannozzi began her television journalism career by cutting her teeth on New Jersey State House politics for New Jersey Network News, and later as a news radio correspondent at FM News 101.9 covering crime and politics in New York City. Her work has taken her to national presidential nominating conventions, Capitol Hill, up and down the East Coast and every corner of the Garden State. She's interviewed every New Jersey governor dating back to Jon Corzine and moderated numerous political debates and forums. Her work has also earned awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association. A Burlington County native, she's honored to be serving and covering her home state and raising her family there.
Michael Hill is NYPR's Host of Morning Edition at WNYC. Previously an anchor/correspondent with NJ Spotlight News, he also had news anchor and reporting stints in New York, Dallas, New Orleans and beyond.