Guerilla Haiku Movement in Orange: Metering community engagement through street poems

2013 New York Emmy Award Nominee for Arts: Program Feature/Segment

Armed with colorful chalk and something to say, The Guerilla Haiku Movement hit the streets of Orange, New Jersey and filled them with haiku poetry. The four hour event was meant to help build community through creativity and interpersonal connections. Participants are encouraged to get as many people as possible from the town involved in making poetry. Though the sidewalk chalk will eventually fade, organizers hope the sense of community that stems from the activities won't. (Video by Adya Beasley and Bumper DeJesus / The Star-Ledger) Music by JR Kong.

N.Y. Giants Road to Super Bowl XLVI playoff highlights

Highlights from the New York Giants' last three games: Wild card playoffs against the Atlanta Falcons, Divisional playoffs against the Green Bay Packers, and Conference playoffs against the San Francisco 49ers. (Music by Jack D. Elliot, Video by Bumper DeJesus / The Star-Ledger)

Video: Route 27: Contrasting the ethnicity and economy of the towns that line the road today

State Route 27 in New Jersey is an example of an ever-changing America. It is an historic road that reflects the spectrum of the economy and ethnicity as it crawls from its most northern point in Newark and terminates in Princeton. As part of a larger census analysis, the Star-Ledger examines and contrasts the current population of the communities that line the route. (Video by Bumper DeJesus / The Star-Ledger, Data analysis by Eric Sagara / The Star-Ledger)

Video: Rutgers serves the grease trucks a fat problem

Ledger Live for Tuesday, November 15th, 2011. Ledger Live with host Brian Donohue: With a recent university probe questioning whether Rutgers' long-standing food truck arrangement is legal or fair, host Brian Donohue takes to College Ave on a Friday night (umm Saturday morning) to talk to Rutgers students, current and alumni. Under a new proposal, officials of Rutgers University would require the "grease trucks" to leave campus overnight, put the coveted spaces in the lot up for public bid, raise the rent and require the trucks to collect and remove their own grease.

State of Reflection: New Jersey Ten Years After 9/11

Winner of the 2013 New York Emmy award in the Human Interest Program or Special category.
Winner of the 2012 New York Broadcasters Association Awards for Best Documentary.
Winner of the 2012 Laughlin International Film Festival Awards for Best U.S. Short Documentary Film.

The Star-Ledger documentary, "State of Reflection: New Jersey Ten Years After 9/11", examines how the tragedy has changed the physical and emotional landscape of New York's sister state, New Jersey, and explores the many ways New Jerseyans are honoring the lost.  This project was inspired by video interviews Star-Ledger's Jennifer Brown did with families and friends who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001.  (Video, writing and narration by Adya Beasley, Produced and edited by Bumper DeJesus and Seth Siditsky)

Watch the preview. 

September 11 Remembrances Project

 Videos by Jennifer Brown, Editing by Bumper DeJesus

Snowballs in Hell Tour

Ledger Live for July 22, 2011 - Ledger Live with Brian Donohue.  Snowballs saved from the 2010 New Jersey blizzard are summoned to their calling - on this week of weeks - during a record heatwave pushing temperatures over a hundred degrees throughout the state.  We hit Newark Bear Stadium, Governor Chris Christie's office, and the Jersey shore's Martell's Tiki Bar in Point Pleasant.

What's that smell? Investigating New Jersey odors

The 'doughnut' phenomenon of Chester Borough and Chester Township

Ledger Live for Tuesday April 26th, 2011 - Ledger Live with Brian Donohue. On today's show: On this edition of New Jersey Towns that Shouldn't Exist, we take a look at the "doughnut town" or the town within a town, Chester Borough and Chester Township.

Ledger Live animates NJ's pension mess

"The Jersey Sting" authors visit the dirty heart of Solomon Dwek's double cross

Valentine's Day card animations

Towns that Shouldn't Exist: East Newark

Ledger Live for Monday December 6th, 2010 - Ledger Live with Brian Donohue. On today's show: Towns that Shouldn't Exist - The viewers spoke and we listened. First on our tour is East Newark.

The Mystery of the wreck of the Lady Mary

The Lady Mary left the Port of Cape May on the morning of March 18, 2009 on a routine scallop fishing trip. The vessel with it's crew of seven traveled 66 miles to the restricted scallop fishing area known as the Elephant Trunk. Some time between 5:10 and 5:40 a.m. on March 24, the boat sank and six of the seven crewman were killed. Jose Arias was asleep below deck when the accident occurred, managed to put his survival suit on, and was rescued. He has no idea what sent the Lady Mary 211 feet to the bottom of the ocean. Was it swamped in rough seas? Or did a passing container ship strike the boat without ever knowing it? After months of reporting the Star-Ledger has tried to uncover the mystery of the wreck of the Lady Mary. (Video by Andre Malok / The Star-Ledger)

Story by Amy Nutt Ellis
Editing by Bumper DeJesus and Seth Siditsky

The Star-Ledger wins Pulitzer Prize for "The Wreck of the Lady Mary"

Ledger Live highlight reel

Scenes from Ledger Live episodes with host Brian Donohue. Technical producer Bumper DeJesus and managing producer Seth Siditsky.

Source: YouTube

New Jersey Top Doctors ads

One-minute video advertisements for Inside Jersey's NJ Top Docs.

Battle of the Boardwalks

It's an age-old controversy between North and South (Jersey that is) and each side's love of their own Jersey Shore: Which boardwalk is better - Seaside Heights or Wildwood? Host Brian Donohue and guest host Pete Genovese of the Munchmobile make their cases.

The Littlest Victims: Violence and Innocence

It was a gun that would put Hutchins in prison. It would be another gun that would change his life and bring him closer to his 4-year old son, Quadir. Of the nearly 400 people that were shot in Newark last year, two were younger than 5 years old. Quadir Hutchins was one of those children. (Photographs by Jennifer Brown, Presentation by Bumper DeJesus)