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"As a full-time media critic, I know alternative media is the antidote to the corporate press. While my home state of New Jersey has a little bit of everything, it's always needed a viable alternative newspaper to challenge the glut of chain-owned dailies. Thankfully, those days are gone.”
- Peter Hart, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)

City Belt is an independent weekly online publication covering news and culture in Hudson County.

We launched in July 2006, with a wider north/central Jersey focus, and have been going strong ever since. Our work has been featured by the New York Times, Utne Reader, the New York Indypendent, KPFK-FM in Los Angeles, as well as by prominent national blogs like DailyKos and MyDD. City Belt was voted "Best NJ Blog of 2006" by readers of Blue Jersey. After a half-year hiatus, City Belt relaunched in January 2008 with a new format.

Jon Whiten, co-publisher and managing editor, brings a unique background to City Belt, one that has combined media theory and criticism with on-the-ground journalism experience. He is also senior editor for the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, where he oversees AltWeeklies.com and Aan.org, and his work has appeared in Extra!, New York Press, Boston’s Weekly Dig, the Jersey Journal, City Limits, and Block Magazine.
Go to him with arts inquiries, questions about the website, and marketing issues.
citybelt@gmail.com

New Jersey native Elizabeth “Buffy” Weill-Greenberg, co-publisher and news editor, has worked as a news reporter for several publications, including the Washington Blade, the New York Amsterdam News and In These Times. Her first book, 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military, released in May 2006 by The New Press. She currently is a case coordinator at the Innocence Project.
Go to her with anything news-related -- story pitches, news tips, or comments on any of our stories.
elizabethwg@gmail.com

To subscribe to our weekly e-newsletter, e-mail citybelt@gmail.com

You can also find us on MySpace, if you're into that.

For general postal correspondence, you can write to:
City Belt
228 Brunswick St. #3
Jersey City, NJ 07302