redbankgreen publisher Kenny Katzgrau flies the flag on Broad Street. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.)
By BRIAN DONOHUE
Over the past several decades, amid widespread newspaper declines and closures and TV and radio cutbacks, the local news landscape across the country has gotten freakin’ dark.
Vast stretches of towns and cities have no news outlet at all, and no one covering local government or the community. Even here in Monmouth County, thousands of people get their news daily from social media channels purporting to be credible news outlets that make up entirely fake and debunked stories like this one.
Thankfully, Red Bank is not one of those places. And the site you’re reading right now is once again being nationally recognized for countering the trend and providing a model for the future of news.
Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism recently named redbankgreen one of its twelve 2025 “Local News Bright Spots.”
The 19-year-old site was honored alongside the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lookout Santa Cruz and the Houston Chronicle, the largest daily newspaper in Houston.
In a QnA timed with the award, redbankgreen Publisher Kenny Katzgrau discussed his vision for keeping the 19-year-old news site thriving for a full century, picking up the mantle of the old Red Bank Register newspaper.
“Anything that I do, I want to build something that lasts,” Katzgrau says in the piece. “Essentially, that has become the vision: to stand for 100 years and serve Red Bank until 2106 at the very least.”
You can read the entire story, entitled “Green Shoots of Growth in Red Bank” right here.
We at redbankgreen, we believe that strong, fact-based, independent journalism is a key cornerstone of what makes a healthy and vibrant community.
We knew we had it covered. The world is seeing it now, too.
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