The Adubato Center for Media Leadership was created to support, promote, and examine the challenges facing independent media by producing the Steve Adubato’s Media Matters video podcast that highlights impactful media leaders and innovative, fiscally responsible journalists across broadcast, digital, print, and streaming platforms. The Adubato Center will also invest in the future of media through educational partnerships and forums that elevate thoughtful public discourse and help develop the next generation of media leaders.
At a time when independent media is challenged on many fronts, and media leadership often falls short, the Adubato Center for Media Leadership is dedicated to strengthening and supporting media leadership and innovation on several fronts.
Founded by long-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and author, Steve Adubato, PhD, the Adubato Center for Media Leadership produces programming under the banner of Steve Adubato’s Media Matters featuring media leaders and innovators who are making a difference and working to figure out how to produce meaningful and credible content in a fiscally responsible fashion. Programming will emphasize why having strong and independent media is critical to informing and engaging our citizens, which is essential to a functioning American society.
Hosted by Emmy Award-winning anchor Steve Adubato, PhD, Steve Adubato’s Media Matters podcast will be available on numerous digital, streaming and traditional/legacy media outlets including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeart Media, Substack, Facebook, X, and Instagram.
Simply put, Steve Adubato’s Media Matters podcast is committed to promoting independent and impactful journalism to protect and preserve our representative democracy. READ MORE.
Find Media Matters on NJ PBS.
Monday & Friday at 8:00pm
Sunday at 4:30pm
Featured
77 WABC radio host Dominic Carter joins Steve to share his journey from the Bronx to a career in journalism, and his perspective on the changing world of talk radio. Carter also discusses challenging his audience, staying true to himself, and the need for honest, civil debate.
Program Director Usame Tuangur and contributor Stephen Adubato join Steve for a discussion on the new Adubato Center for Media Leadership.
Steve joins host Lisa Marie Falbo to examine how the new Adubato Center for Media Leadership aims to inspire the next generation of media leaders.
Steve talks with Adam H. Johnson, author of How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza, about how U.S. media coverage shapes our understanding of Gaza. His book explores whose stories get told, whose suffering gets overlooked, and how news coverage can shape public opinion.
Steve Adubato’s Media Matters Podcast
Testimonials
“It is important for legitimate news organizations and programs to continue to ask questions about the future of information and not to leave it simply in the hands of big corporations that have very different motivations for what they do…The minute you stop having those conversations and stop pushing the narrative, essentially you have given up to the lowest common denominator…Democracy does not end with a bang, but with a slow whimper, and so that is part of the end. There are a few existential crises in America, and this happens to be one of them.”
- Keith Strudler, Ph.D., Director, School of Communication & Media, Montclair State University
“It is a critical time in our state and nation, and the programming produced by Steve Adubato and his team is more important than ever…What they are doing through their series ‘Media Matters’ and the Adubato Center for Media Leadership is going to define the next generation of media leadership in the United States.”
- Jess Rauchberg, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Media and Arts, Seton Hall University
Caucus Educational Corporation Partnership
The Adubato Center for Media Leadership will work in cooperation with the Caucus Educational Corporation (CEC), formed by Steve Adubato and a group of New Jersey-based media leaders in 1994, in addition to collaborating with well-established media organizations in public broadcasting, digital, and streaming services.
Select Steve Adubato’s Media Matters content will be shared with the CEC and distributed on such series as Think Tank with Steve Adubato, State of Affairs with Steve Adubato, One-on-One with Steve Adubato, and Remember Them with Steve Adubato and Jacqui Tricarico, featuring iconic media leaders who have passed and whose impact on the media universe remains. Following are some of the high-profile “Media Matters” segments produced by the CEC:
Max Pizarro, Editor-in-Chief of InsiderNJ.com, joins Steve Adubato to discuss the major takeaways from the gubernatorial election and how President Trump’s priorities shaped voter decisions in New Jersey.
Steve Adubato with Elie Honig, author, "When You Come at the King," CNN Senior Legal Analyst, talking about the history of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel and the future of American democracy.
Assemblyman Louis D. Greenwald (D), Assembly Majority Leader, joins Steve Adubato to examine some of New Jersey’s and the nation’s top issues and his efforts to support independent media in the state.
Steve welcomes legendary journalist, Connie Chung, Author, "Connie: A Memoir," for a conversation about her broadcasting journey,, navigating a male dominated media industry, and the future of legacy media.
Check out the full library of CEC Media Matters programming HERE.
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