Jeffrey Kanige

Editor in Chief

As Editor in Chief, Jeffrey Kanige oversees all editorial operations for The Deal. Those responsibilities include supervision of The Daily Deal, a twice-daily digital newspaper covering the day’s top stories; Ahead of the news, an exclusive compilation of advance intelligence; and First Take, a continuously updated web feature providing early alerts on breaking news. Most recently he has led The Deal’s efforts to develop more in-depth coverage of markets and debt financing.

A lawyer by training, 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, he won several awards for his coverage of state politics and government, and served as a political commentator and advisor 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. Jeff has been with The Deal since its inception in 1999.