Dr Brian Agnew and Lauren Agnew method New Jersey Journalistic practices with a group lens.
Dr Brian Agnew and Lauren Agnew, a dynamic New Jersey couple spotlight the significance of their roots in Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Brian Agnew and Lauren Agnew embrace inclusive journalism practices in New Jersey
— Dr. Brian D. Agnew
EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, USA, August 14, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — Brian and Lauren Agnew have a special perspective on the identical occasion in August 2010.
Each have been — and nonetheless are — aggressive volleyball gamers, collaborating in several leagues on the time. Certainly one of Lauren’s greatest mates went to graduate college with Brian and he or she bought invited to play in a pickup league at Rutgers College’s Werblin Recreation Middle. That’s the primary time the 2 met.
“I bear in mind it as a result of she tried to hit me,” Brian Agnew mentioned.
“I didn’t attempt to hit him,” Lauren Agnew mentioned.
“She was good,” he mentioned.
“I spiked on him and hit him on his shoulder, as a result of I believed he was type of cute, I didn’t need to hit him within the face,” she added. “From then on, he most popular to be on my staff, as opposed to being an opponent.”
They’ve remained on the identical staff, each personally and professionally.
The couple, who married in 2015, are the brand new proprietor/publishers of TAPinto East Orange/Orange. They took over the native information and digital advertising and marketing platform in April 2023.
“Brian and Lauren Agnew have taken TAPinto East Orange/Orange to the following stage in a really quick time period,” TAPinto Founder and CEO Michael Shapiro mentioned. “Their dedication to offering East Orange and Orange residents with goal, high-quality unique native information reporting and their ardour for working to assist native companies is inspiring. We’re thrilled to have Brian and Lauren be part of our TAPinto household.”
She is a local of Essex County and attended East Orange and Montclair Public Colleges. He is from Brooklyn and attended highschool in Bay Ridge. They stay in Essex County.
Each say proudly owning and working a TAPinto native information web site, in an space they care a lot about, is essential to them and the group.
“Some of the essential foundational parts of this is ensuring everybody’s voice is heard,” Brian Agnew mentioned. “Main one of many largest information retailers in New Jersey is our alternative to be sure that this occurs for communities the place voices have historically been marginalized.”
“When you have got a platform to have the option to elevate individuals and organizations and provides a voice to the unvoiced, I feel it’s essential to use it to change the narrative of what the world is aware of,” Lauren Agnew mentioned.
“I feel it’s essential to perceive the lived experiences of the populations we’re talking about as a result of it additionally shapes how the story is learn, the way it’s understood and the way it’s appreciated and valued in the neighborhood,” Brian Agnew mentioned.
Each publishers discuss each story that’s written on TAPinto East Orange/Orange, to be certain what’s being reported on is helpful to the group.
“Whether or not it’s considered one of our reporters, Lauren or me writing it, we now have editorial conferences to focus on ideas and story concepts in order that it actually does take a full form,” Brian Agnew mentioned. “If one thing is lacking, it’s okay for us to say ‘hey did you consider this concept’ to ensure that the entire story is advised, not only for the flashy headline.”
“Quite a lot of focus within the city areas is on the destructive, the not-so-positive facets,” Lauren Agnew mentioned. “When you get to know individuals from these areas, you recognize there are phenomenal tales about college students, organizations and small enterprise house owners with great tales.”
Each convey journalism, public relations, advertising and marketing and enterprise expertise to TAPinto East Orange/Orange. Each wrote for his or her school newspapers — Lauren at William Paterson College and Brian at Utica Faculty (now Utica College). Brian has an MBA from Syracuse and each have levels from Rutgers; Lauren an MPA and Brian a Ph.D.
As well as, they spend time giving again to the group they care a lot about, mentoring future leaders and journalists.
Lauren Agnew is the scholarship and training chairperson for the Montclair Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and Brian Agnew is the scholarship chairperson for Alpha Alpha Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
“I feel we’re serving as an inspiration for younger women and boys that we work with — and a few that we didn’t even know who’re us — that they too might personal a information web site and that’s as well as to what we’re really doing is inspiring the following era of journalists and communications professionals,” Lauren Agnew mentioned.
“Mentorship issues,” Brian Agnew mentioned. “Lauren and I share this ardour for mentoring the following era. We interact youth to be certain they’ve what they want to achieve success.”
Part of that, he mentioned, is the type of tales which are advised in the neighborhood.
“One of many issues I’ve been saying about our acquisition of TAPinto East Orange/Orange is we not have to permit anybody else to inform our story,” he mentioned. “Too usually, our tales are advised lacking a whole lot of items.”
Each Brian and Lauren Agnew say they’re proud and keen to personal and function TAPinto East Orange/Orange.
“The positioning itself has its personal stage of pleasure,” Lauren Agnew mentioned. “The chance to work on one thing collectively, that’s one other stage of pleasure, identical to taking part in on the identical staff collectively for volleyball,” Lauren Agnew mentioned.
Adam Darsky
TAPinto Insider
editor@tapinto.web
