Christopher Kelly

Director, News Innovation, Topics and Features, NJ.com. Writer-at-large, Texas Monthly. Author, husband, dad, inveterate fresh pasta maker.
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NJ.com • 20th December 2020

My friend Jay.

He went from class president to drug dealer, then dead at 16. My desperate, personal search for answers.
NJ.com • 11th October 2020

N.J. was primed for a pandemic (and it could happen again)

The same pathways that make New Jersey accessible to New York and the world allowed the coronavirus to spread here like wildfire.
NJ.com • 28th April 2020

24 Hours in Crisis

The battle against the coronavirus is testing New Jersey in every imaginable way. A special report by NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
NJ.com • 5th December 2019

The Day That Changed Everything

They lost N.J.’s biggest high school football game. Can one defeat ruin a life?
NJ.com • 30th October 2019

Rutgers softball players say they were physically, emotionally abused by wife-husband coaching team and school did nothing

The alleged abuse was disclosed by seven former Rutgers players and five parents.
NJ.com • 15th October 2019

Gone at 15

More N.J. teens are killing themselves in a crisis nobody was prepared for
Apple Podcasts, NJ.com • 12th August 2019

‎Springsteen x 70

If you are a diehard Bruce Springsteen fan, welcome to your new favorite podcast. As the rock icon celebrates his 70th birthday, NJ.com music critic Bobby Olivier breaks down The Boss’s 70 greatest songs of all time.
NJ.com • 12th July 2019

9 ex-athletes from a top N.J. school have died since 2014. Why?

More than a dozen interviews with Don Bosco officials, family members of the deceased and former athletes from the school do little to explain the numbers.
NJ.com • 11th July 2019

Cory Booker’s brother opened a school so bad it got shut down. N.J. just gave him a $150K education job

“The only reason he got that job is his brother.”
NJ.com • 20th June 2019

Joyce

One elephant’s incredible rescue from slaughter and unforgettable journey to peace
NJ.com • 16th June 2019

My mother found out her father wasn't her father from a DNA test — and it's all my fault

For all her life, my mother has loved being Irish.
NJ.com • 12th June 2019

252 days.

One mother's fight to get her daughter home
NJ.com • 21st April 2019

Changing Habits

Millennial women don't become nuns. These women did.
NJ.com • 13th December 2018

‘Good … for a girl’

How sexual harassment pervades N.J.’s music scene
NJ.com • 27th July 2017

The Dos and Don'ts at the Jersey Shore - YouTube

NJ.com • 15th June 2017

Five Sins of New Jersey Drivers - YouTube

NJ.com • 13th April 2017

The Italian bakery explained

A guide to every cookie, pastry and dessert
NJ.com • 26th February 2017

The man who directed 'La La Land' is a 32-year-old wunderkind from N.J.

If all the glitzy awards season buzz pans out Sunday night in Los Angeles, a 32-year-old man from New Jersey will become the youngest best director winner in Oscar history.
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