Jen Maxfield - More After The Break

55 Magnolia Avenue,Tenafly NJ 07670

24 September, 2022

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Come and meet Jen Maxfield, Author, Emmy Award winning Journalist, News Reporter, Speaker and Professor who estimates that she has interviewed over 10,000 people over the span of her 22 year career. Find out what prompted her to reconnect with the some of the people who have stayed on her mind. Hear why she is interested in “demystifying the process of how news gets covered, and describes piecing these comprehensive histories together from eyewitness account, court transcripts, letters, archived news reports and more. In her debut book, More After the Break, Maxfield revisits the most memorable stories she covered, describing in heart-pounding detail how the events unfolded through the eyewitness perspectives and her own. She explores questions relating to journalistic ethics, such as why do we still knock on grieving families’ doors when we could find most of what we are looking for on social media? How can we help a person who has lost everything in a natural disaster? How can I cover so much tragedy without sacrificing a part of my own mental health? Throughout her career in TV news, Maxfield has reported live from news events in New York City and beyond. She was on the ground during Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey and reported live from Florida after Hurricane Francis and Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. She was at the State Capitol in Trenton when Governor Jim McGreevey resigned, covered the 2004 Republican convention in New York City, and was reporting live from a bar in Newark, New Jersey when President Barack Obama won his second term in 2016. She interviewed survivors following the “Miracle on the Hudson” plane landing and was part of NBC NY’s coverage of the 2016 NYC/NJ terror attacks. She won a local news Emmy in 2018 for her live coverage of a plane crash in Teterboro, New Jersey. Her anchoring and reporting were part of NBC-NY’s COVID 19 coverage that was awarded the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award in 2021, recognized as the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. Maxfield has had the opportunity to meet tens of thousands of people covering news events over a wide range of topics, including politics, schools, criminal justice, health, business, weather, and human interest stories. Witness for yourself why her colleagues say that her first book, “More After the Break: A Reporter Returns to Ten Unforgettable News Stories” is : • “An extraordinary look into journalism and the journalist who represents the best in our profession” - Jose Diaz-Balart, MSNBC, NBC news and Telemundo anchor • Find out “what happens to those who’ve been in the spotlight after the news moves on to the next big story” - Claire Shipman, New York Times bestselling author and journalist • See why Jen Maxfield is one of the “best journalists who got into the business because she “genuinely cares about the good people she covers…” - Gary Tuchman, CNN National Correspondent • “More After The Break” forces us to pause and consider the people behind the headlines. And, at the same time, it validates the reason why local journalism still matters in the age of technology” - Jared Grusd, Tech Executive and Former HuffPost CEO Jen Maxfield is an Emmy-award winning reporter and anchor who started at NBC New York in 2013. She worked for Eyewitness News in New York as a reporter and substitute anchor for ten years. Before joining WABC in 2002, she worked for WIXT in Syracuse, NY and WIVT in Binghamton, NY as an anchor and reporter. Maxfield is an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she teaches broadcast journalism. She received a B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in political science from Columbia College in 1999 and an MS from the School of Journalism in 2000. Maxfield began her career in journalism as an undergraduate student at Columbia College, where she wrote for the Columbia Daily Spectator. She started an internship at CNN at the United Nations her sophomore year and promptly changed her career goal from sports medicine physician to journalist. She and her husband Scott live in New Jersey with their three children and their dog, Rocket.