NJ PBS announces six staff appointments

Ashlee Smith (Photo credit: Matthew Mitchell)

MONTCLAIR, N.J. — NJ PBS has announced six staff appointments that will support its newsroom, programming, audience development, digital content and media operations. This includes:

• Samantha Bennet, audience and marketing director

• Walik Cotton, media manager

• Deb Finan, programming director

• Brent Sanchez, digital content producer

• Ashlee Smith, general manager

• Omnika Thompson, news director

These first six hires represent a new beginning for NJ PBS, as the station transitions to being fully operated by Montclair State University. Montclair was named the new operator of the four television stations licensed to the State of New Jersey as of July 1; the University takes over full control of programming and the daily newscast from former operator WNET Oct. 1.  

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