Jerry DeMarco

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Born in Newark and raised in Hudson County, Jerry DeMarco is a 38-year veteran of the news industry and a renowned breaking news reporter. He has covered local, county and state police, as well as the FBI, ATF and other federal agencies.

DeMarco joined Daily Voice in 2015 after six years running Cliffview Pilot, one of the nation's few independent breaking news sites. As an independent publisher, he helped establish Local Independent Online News, a national trade organization.

Prior to launching his own site, DeMarco served as a reporter for the Bergen Record, Stamford Advocate, Rockland Journal News, News Tribune, and Trenton Times.

DeMarco has won national recognition for his investigative work, including Clarion, Heywood Broun and Deadline Club awards. He's changed public policy and managed several major projects -- including one that helped put a corrupt public official in federal prison and another that forced a sitting New Jersey attorney general from office for her participation in a Bergen County traffic stop involving her boyfriend.

DeMarco regularly lectures at a graduate course in media relations at Fairleigh Dickinson University and previously was an adjunct professor at Lehman College in the Bronx. 

He has a Bachelor's Degree in English from St. Peter's University in Jersey City.

Jerry DeMarco's Contributions

Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Obituaries
Longtime Ridgefield Special Needs Advocate Edmund Eyerman, 73 Longtime Ridgefield Special Needs Advocate Edmund Eyerman, 73 Longtime Ridgefield Special Needs Advocate Edmund Eyerman, 73
Longtime Ridgefield Special Needs Advocate Edmund Eyerman, 73 RIDGEFIELD, N.J. -- Funeral services were scheduled this Saturday at St. Matthew's Church in Ridgefield for chiropractor Edmund Eyerman, a member of the borough Board of Education for nearly 25 years and a longtime advocate for children with children with special needs. Eyerman died Sunday night. He was 73. Born in Jersey City, Eyerman was a special education specialist in New Jersey and New York for more than 47 years, working with youngsters from kindergarten through 8th grade. He also operated Chiropractic Health Arts in Palisades Park for more than 38 years. Eyerman was a longtime tru…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Wood-Ridge Police: How Are We Doing? Wood-Ridge Police: How Are We Doing? Wood-Ridge Police: How Are We Doing?
Wood-Ridge Police: How Are We Doing? WOOD-RIDGE, N.J. -- Wood-Ridge residents and merchants are invited to give their opinion of the borough police department as part of a process known as accreditation. Department members and borough employees are encouraged to call, as well, during the designated phone-in period from 10 a.m.-noon this Sunday, Dec. 13. The number: (201) 939-6798 A team of assessors from the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police (NJSACOP) will examine “all aspects of the Wood-Ridge Police Department's policies and procedures, management, operations, and support services,” during a headquarters visi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
South Hackensack Utility Repairs Causing Minor Delays South Hackensack Utility Repairs Causing Minor Delays South Hackensack Utility Repairs Causing Minor Delays
South Hackensack Utility Repairs Causing Minor Delays SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Long-delayed utility work was being done on Huyler Street near Hoffman Street in South Hackensack, causing some backups. "PSE&G is doing work on a minor gas leak they'd been meaning to get to," Capt. Robert Kaiser told Daily Voice. How long it would take wasn't determined.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
NY Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Mahwah Girl NY Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Mahwah Girl NY Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Mahwah Girl
NY Man Charged With Sexually Abusing Mahwah Girl MAHWAH, N.J. -- A married Greenwood Lake gas station worker was charged with sexually abusing a Mahwah girl when she was between 6 and 7 years old. Christopher M. Helbig, 32, was being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with two counts of sexual assault and with child endangerment. A caseworker from the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency notified the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit and Mahwah police that the girl -- now a teenager -- told a caseworker and therapist that she was "sexually assaulted on multiple occasions&qu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Dumont, Tenafly Pet Advocates Cheer Charges In Dog Cruelty Case Dumont, Tenafly Pet Advocates Cheer Charges In Dog Cruelty Case Dumont, Tenafly Pet Advocates Cheer Charges In Dog Cruelty Case
Dumont, Tenafly Pet Advocates Cheer Charges In Dog Cruelty Case DUMONT, N.J. -- A Dumont pet spa owner and the operator of a pet rescue organization in Tenafly were heartened by the news that the Brooklyn owner of an abused Yorkie kept in a basement cage for 7 months was charged with animal cruelty. Rosa Catania was given a Jan. 14 court date, Robyn Urman of Pet ResQ Inc. told Daily Voice. Urman and Lisa Pagnozzi, who owns Somethin' To Wag About Pet Spa & Boutique, have been trying to raise money to help get Ginger healthy again. When she was found, Ginger had been confined to a basement cage with a Shih Tzu, Pagnozzi said. Both were covered in fec…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Upper Saddle River PD: Man Found Stumbling In Street Burglarized Home Upper Saddle River PD: Man Found Stumbling In Street Burglarized Home Upper Saddle River PD: Man Found Stumbling In Street Burglarized Home
Upper Saddle River PD: Man Found Stumbling In Street Burglarized Home UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. -- A man who Upper Saddle River police found walking in and out of traffic early Wednesday had just burglarized an acquaintance's home, authorities said. Responding officers found 18-year-old Zachary Fischer "staggering in the middle" of East Saddle River Road at 7:40 a.m., Detective Lt. Edward Kane told Daily Voice. Fischer told them he'd been driving to a local store to buy breakfast, Kane said. The officers found him carrying Xanax and marijuana, the lieutenant said. They also learned that he'd taken several prescription medications and a blank che…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Your Community
Englewood Cliffs District May End Relationship With Englewood Schools Englewood Cliffs District May End Relationship With Englewood Schools Englewood Cliffs District May End Relationship With Englewood Schools
Englewood Cliffs District May End Relationship With Englewood Schools ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. — The Englewood Cliffs school district might look to end its send-receive relationship with Englewood instead of paying tuition for students attending the magnet program at Dwight-Morrow High School, NorthJersey.com is reporting. Starting in July 2016, Englewood Cliffs will have to pay tuition that the state Department of Education previously paid for borough students who attend the Academies@Englewood program, the report says. Englewood Cliffs, which doesn't have its own high school, has about two dozen students attending the Academies this year, at $17,700 per stude…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee Police Seek Lost Dog's Owner Fort Lee Police Seek Lost Dog's Owner Fort Lee Police Seek Lost Dog's Owner
Fort Lee Police Seek Lost Dog's Owner FORT LEE, N.J. -- Fort Lee police are trying to find the owner of a male dog found around 8:15 a.m. Wednesday near 3 Star Bagels on Columbia Avenue. Fort Lee PD: (201) 592-3700

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Weather
Young Man Winter: Warmer Temps Headed To Bergen, Passaic Young Man Winter: Warmer Temps Headed To Bergen, Passaic Young Man Winter: Warmer Temps Headed To Bergen, Passaic
Young Man Winter: Warmer Temps Headed To Bergen, Passaic Ready for this? It's going to get even warmer in North Jersey this weekend. You already swapped the autumnal duds for winter coverings -- now what? Yes, we're seeing less of the sun with the winter solstice bearing down. But we're still feeling warmer than usual this time of year. It's expected to break 60 degrees this weekend, when Christmas will be less than two weeks away. And it's not just here: Atlanta, Raleigh, Nashville, Charleston and Miami are all checking the record books. It's the same across at least 60% of the U.S. Unusual, for sure: Average daily temperatures have tied reco…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Armonk, NY
Your Community
New York Welcomes 2016 America's Cup New York Welcomes 2016 America's Cup New York Welcomes 2016 America's Cup
New York Welcomes 2016 America's Cup America’s Cup racing next year will return to New York for the first time since 1920 with Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series racing. The May 7-8, 2016 event is one of six World Series events planned during 2016, each featuring the six America’s Cup teams competing for the oldest trophy in international sport, America's Cup said on its website (CLICK HERE for more). The Event Village will be in the Brookfield Place Waterfront Plaza off Vesey Street in Battery Park Center on the lower Hudson River. The technical areas for teams, race management and America’s Cup TV production will be b…

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