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 May 3 (Morning)
The president of this school district's teachers union was caught on video describing how he can "bend the truth" in order to protect teachers accused of wrongdoing and bragging about how he saved teachers who used drugs and shoplifted.
Gov...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for May 2 (Afternoon)
Action is stirring in Trenton around the issue of allowing immigrants not legally in the country to get limited-purpose New Jersey driver’s licenses.
As many as 85 percent of children in New Jersey have preventive dental care. But the Annie E...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for May 2 (Morning)
After three years of negotiations with two administrations, one of the unions for state employees has reached an agreement on a new contract.
Officials in Freehold Township and Toms River are among the latest in New Jersey to warn residents of thieves targeting personal property inside vehicles — whether or not their doors are locked...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for May 1 (Afternoon)
A Jersey Shore elder care lawyer was charged with stealing nearly $2 million in assets from his clients.
With fewer homes to choose from these days, and more folks going after those homes, snagging a property within your budget isn't as likely...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for May 1 (Morning)
Remember that executive order Gov. Phil Murphy signed in his first week in office directing a full audit of NJ Transit? It hasn’t started yet.
The mother of an infant found abandoned in a vacant building has been charged with her death...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for April 30 (Afternoon)
It's easy to get out of credit card fees if you simply ask, according to a new CreditCards.com report.
An unmasked man entered an Ocean County TD Bank branch on Sunday and gave a teller a note demanding cash, according to Point Pleasant Police...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for April 30 (Morning)
The soon-to-be-enacted law providing state Tuition Aid Grants to undocumented immigrants appears likely to cost more than lawmakers thought when they considered the bill.
New Jersey health officials are keeping a close eye across the Hudson River on nearby New York, where tuberculosis cases have soared over the past year...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for April 26 (Afternoon)
Repairs to a section of the the Garden State Parkway that was damaged last fall and an ongoing project on Route 78 are expected to cause delays this weekend.
In order to bring mental illness and addiction out of the shadows and encourage treatment and support, Middlesex County is launching a county-wide campaign to eliminate the stigma...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for April 25 (Afternoon)
Security staff at an Ocean County school district will be allowed to carry weapons under a measure approved Tuesday night.
A ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court finds placing juveniles on the state's sex offender registry for life is illegal...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for April 24 (Afternoon)
A pedestrian was killed on Route 1 early Tuesday morning after being struck by two tractor trailers.
The Council on American Islamic Relations is out with a new report that says anti-Muslim bias incidents increased 17 percent and hate crimes were up 15 percent nationwide between 2016 and 2017...