Born and raised in New Jersey, Annette is definitely a Jersey Girl. She even have the big hair to prove it! Through her years at New Jersey 101.5, she's held various roles in the newsroom, including as the department's assignment editor and assistant news director. In her current role as news director, she helps determine the stories that will be the most impactful to our listening and reading audience while always remembering to follow what New Jersey 101.5 was founded on "Not New York, Not Philadelphia ... New Jersey 101.5." Under her leadership, the station has won several journalism awards, including its first National Murrow Award for Newscast from the Radio Television Digital News Association in 2022. Most importantly, she's always looking to hear from the people that live and work in New Jersey. If you have a story you think New Jersey 101.5's award-winning journalists should pursue, please email her at annette.petriccione@townsquaremedia.com.
Annette Petriccione
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 29 (Morning)
Murders in New Jersey plunged by the biggest amount in decades in 2017, with the murder rate apparently reaching its lowest level in more than a half-century of record keeping, preliminary data shows.
Work to replenish beaches and better protect communities in northern Ocean County has suffered delays in the face of an extremely cold winter...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 26 (Evening)
Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration is rescinding the change enacted under Gov. Chris Christie that loosened New Jersey’s restrictions on obtaining a permit to carry a handgun.
The news on the gas price front is not good for Jersey drivers...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 26 (Afternoon)
Speaking at a church where Indonesian immigrants have come to seek asylum from potential deportation, Gov. Phil Murphy said Thursday that the state was behind them even though the federal government sought to deport them.
The news on the gas price front is not good for Jersey drivers...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 25 (Afternoon)
A Rutgers University-Camden professor, recently returned from a fact-finding mission to storm-devastated Puerto Rico, says the federal government has failed the island.
A piece of Jersey Shore history was seriously damaged Wednesday afternoon following a fire at Federici's Family Restaurant...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 24 (Afternoon)
A young woman’s life is being remembered with compassion — and her death with blunt honesty — by her family.
A high speed chase early Tuesday morning led to a pedestrian being struck and killed by the vehicle being pursued, authorities say...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 23 (Afternoon)
A high speed chase early Tuesday morning led to a pedestrian being struck and killed by the vehicle being pursued, authorities say.
Fixing New Jersey Transit is apparently an issue that’s bringing Democrats and Republicans together in New Jersey...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 22 (Afternoon)
Gov. Phil Murphy ordered a “comprehensive, strategic, financial and operational audit” of NJ Transit he hopes is a first step in fixing the troubled rain line.
A vote to break a Democrat filibuster on a short-term funding bill is set for noon Monday as the federal government shutdown began its third day, and first in a new work week...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 19 (Evening)
The federal government announced today that it will retry Sen. Bob Menendez corruption charges.
One of the stars of the "Jersey Shore" reality TV show has pleaded guilty to cheating on his taxes.
Two free Narcan training sessions are planned over the next several weeks in Ocean County...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 19 (Afternoon)
Nine members of a TV crew were arrested Thursday night as they filmed themselves trying to get a fake explosive device through a Newark Liberty International Airport security checkpoint.
An emotional day in court Thursday for Jamie Friedland, a Hoboken woman whose husband was killed in front of her by a group of carjackers at the Short Hills Mall in 2013...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 18 (Afternoon)
Newark is among the 20 finalists for Amazon’s second North American headquarters.
Wells Fargo said problems that customers may have encountered with their online bill payment program have been corrected.
As we approach the first-ever Maternal Health Awareness Day in New Jersey, Tinton Falls resident Ryan Hansen hopes his story sparks better communication between expectant moms and their physicians