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 17 (Afternoon)
In front of a few hundred backers crammed into the Governor’s Office media center, Gov. Phil Murphy took his first action as governor three hours after his swearing-in Tuesday: an executive order seeking to promote equal pay among state workers...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 16 (Afternoon)
A former Wall Street executive and Obama administration diplomat was sworn in as New Jersey’s governor Tuesday, replacing Republican Gov. Chris Christie and returning full control of state government to Democrats.
Authorities say the man who crashed a car into the Delaware River — resulting in his female passenger’s death — left her strapped into the sinking car as he ran away...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 15 (Afternoon)
Gov. Chris Christie leaves office on Tuesday, after an eight-year tenure that saw him achieve record highs and lows in both accomplishments and approval rating.
Three people including a married couple died when their vehicles went off the road and into a body of water in three separate incidents...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 12 (Evening)
A new report by U-Haul finds that more people continue to move out of New Jersey than are coming in.
Immigrants who aren’t in the country legally ought to be able to drive legally, according to backers of a campaign that launched Thursday to push lawmakers to create a new restricted driver’s license for undocumented immigrants...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 12 (Afternoon)
A new report by U-Haul finds that more people continue to move out of New Jersey than are coming in.
In a AAA study released Thursday, nearly 60 percent of the New Jersey law enforcement officers and tow truck operators surveyed said they do not believe New Jersey motorists are aware of the state’s Move Over law...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 11 (Afternoon)
NJ Transit’s bad Thursday continued with a suspension of service because of a problem with the Amtrak-owned Portal Bridge.
A barricade situation during which shots were fired from a home at police in South Jersey on Wednesday night came to an end on Thursday morning...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 10 (Afternoon)
The twelve dogs found caged in an abandoned house were described as the “most seriously matted and neglected dogs we have ever seen” by the shelter that took them in.
The American Red Cross New Jersey Region has responded to more than 35 fires in the state and helped 260 people from 92 families, since the beginning of January...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 9 (Afternoon)
Chris Christie delivers his final State of the State speech today, before stepping down as governor next week.
A township woman has been charged with a Jan. 5 robbery of a bank in Pine Beach.
January is Radon Action Month in New Jersey and across the country...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for January 8 (Afternoon)
Repair crews are working across the Garden State, fixing hundreds of water pipes and mains that are leaking or have burst from the recent bone-chilling weather.
In response to the high incidence of insurance fraud following Superstorm Sandy, Assemblyman Ron Dancer, R-Ocean, is introducing legislation to require the state to create a “Most Wanted List...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for December 5 (Evening)
A Jersey City police officer was stuck and killed while helping a motorist on the New Jersey Turnpike on Friday morning, according to Mayor Steven Fulop.
A carbon monoxide poisoning incident that killed a teenage girl and sickened 35 people has been blamed on a blocked chimney — and a carbon monoxide detector that was not working...