Jeffrey Kanige

Executive editor, daily operations

Among his duties as executive editor of daily operations, Jeff Kanige oversees the publication of The Daily Deal, which covers the day’s top stories; Ahead of the News, an exclusive compilation of advance intelligence; and First Take, early alerts on breaking news.

Jeff has been a professional writer and editor for 27 years; he entered the industry as a stringer for the Courier-News, a daily newspaper in central New Jersey. As a writer for New Jersey Reporter, a public policy journal based in Princeton, Kanige won several awards for his coverage of state politics and government, and served as a political commentator and adviser for television stations in New Jersey and Philadelphia. He has also covered the courts for Manhattan Lawyer, a unit of American Lawyer Media, worked as a reporter for the New Jersey Law Journal—for which he established Appellate Watch, a column about the state Supreme Court—and was associate editor of the Law Journal, directing some of the paper’s signature projects, and assistant managing editor for the New York Law Journal.