Michael Aron

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Michael Aron (NJN.net)

Michael Aron is in his 27th year as senior political correspondent of NJN News. In August 2008, he was appointed Interim Director of NJN News and Public Affairs. In 2008 he was named the #1 political reporter in the state by the website InTheLobby.net and was named one of the 101 most influential people in New Jersey by New Jersey Monthly Magazine.

Michael has been a journalist since 1970, starting at Seattle Magazine, then West Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Rolling Stone, and New Jersey Monthly. He started at NJN in 1982 and has won a number of broadcast awards, including a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award. He went to college at Harvard, graduate school at Princeton, is a native of Philadelphia, lives in Montclair, and has three grown daughters.

Aron has interviewed every New Jersey governor, state supreme court chief justice, and legislative leader during his tenure, plus a number of presidential candidates. He has covered national political conventions, trade missions abroad, and all the major political issues of the state.