Michael Aron
Senior Political Correspondent

Michael Aron is best known to NJN viewers for his incisive and penetrating special reports and his interviews on major New Jersey political and social issues. In addition to this political reporting on NJN News, Aron is host/producer of Reporters Roundtable with Michael Aron; a weekly program featuring reporters from around New Jersey who discuss the state's political scene. Aron is also a frequent host/co-producer of On the Record, NJN's weekly public affairs program.

Aron has written and produced an hour-long NJN documentary on the break-up of AT&T (1984), and numerous half-hour documentaries (on affordable housing, 1986; the blighted neighborhoods of Trenton, 1991; U.S. troops in Haiti, 1994; and Governor Whitman's trips to the United Kingdom in 1995, Mexico in 1998, and South America in 1999). He has interviewed most of the major presidential candidates who have campaigned in New Jersey since 1984, and has done several major sit-down interviews that have aired as "conversation" specials with Governor Tom Kean, Governor Jim Florio, Governor Christie Whitman, US Senator Bill Bradley, and the only extended TV interview ever given by New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Wilentz. Aron has also moderated, or been a panelist on, numerous statewide-televised debates. He has written the book, Governor's Race: A TV Reporter's chronicle of the 1993 Florio-Whitman Campaign (Rutgers University Press, January 1994).

Aron has received one Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmy and thirteen nominations. He is a three-time winner of the New Jersey State Bar Association's Media Award. In 1992 he received the Equal Justice Medal from Legal Services of New Jersey for his efforts to bring attention to the plight of people in need. As part of the NJN News team, Aron played a key role in the network's 1996 Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmy Award for Best Newscast.

Aron graduated from Harvard University with a BA magna cum laude in Government and went on to earn his MPA degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. Prior to arriving at NJN, Aron was a magazine writer and editor for Rolling Stone, Harper's and New Jersey Monthly. A native of Philadelphia, he resides in Montclair.