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.