Tom Davis is an award-winning journalist and web producer who is New Jersey editor of Patch.com. Tom is a Point Pleasant Boro native who formerly managed the Ocean County bureau for The Press of Atlantic City. He wrote a book that was released in 2011 called A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family From Generations of Mental Illness. Until 2010, Tom Davis was a multi-media journalist with The Record of Bergen County, N.J., where he also wrote articles that appeared in The Star-Ledger. He teaches journalism classes at Rutgers University, where he sits on the Digital Committee and is helping to develop more of a digital media presence in the Journalism and Media Studies Department. Tom created Rutgers Reporter, a weekly web newspaper with content produced by his classes. Contact: tom.davis-at-patch.com. Twitter: http://twitter.com/NJShorePatch. Phone: 732-395-8956.
At The Record, he wrote Coping for five years. In 2007, he was named Citizen of the Year by the American Psychiatric Association New Jersey chapter. Davis also received an ambassador award from the New Jersey Governors Council on Stigma in 2008. He taught a groundbreaking course on mental health issues in the media at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. Tom Davis was one of six people in the nation to win the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship in 2004.
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The 22-year-old woman was charged with first-degree murder for killing her mother, prosecutors said.
The list of store closures in New Jersey grew on Monday as a major chain filed for bankruptcy.
The burglaries involved cars and one also happened at a Point Pleasant Boro gas station, police said.
In 2019, there were 216 incidents of hate, extremism and anti-Semitism in 112 towns in NJ, according to a new report. Here's where.
A priest who taught at a NJ school is accused of sexually abusing a student – beginning when he was 13 – more than 100 times, reports say.
A man who coached at 15 NJ schools, now charged with sex assault, was fired for earlier allegations, a lawsuit says. But he still got jobs.
"COP" is looking for some Asbury Park residents to join a group of concerned citizens.
The school district is moving forward on the issue and has planned to work with Rutgers University.
The Trump administration is reportedly planning to send agents to New Jersey and elsewhere as part of an ICE crackdown.
UPDATE: The district reportedly took action against a teacher who faces sexual assault charges. He coached at 15 different NJ high schools.
Forecasters are eyeing a chance of winter weather early this week in New Jersey.
Services were announced for the 13-year-old who passed away this week.
Did you know that Saturday is an election day in New Jersey, and your taxes could jump without you really knowing (unless you vote)?
Check out the top news that made headlines this week across the Patch network in New Jersey.
No jail time for a woman who struck the victim, then 14, and then "carried" her with the car. The victim was thrown and left for dead.
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Here's a reminder of what's new in your tax return for 2019 and what exactly is due on April 15, 2020.
Two people were arrested on Thursday after an assault and a robbery in Princeton, police said.
Winter has already hit a lot of the country and is fast approaching elsewhere. You can prevent it from hitting inside your NJ home.
