Steve Adubato
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Steve Adubato, Ph.D., has enjoyed a distinguished career as a broadcaster, author and motivational speaker. A university lecturer, Emmy Award-winning television anchor, and Star-Ledger columnist, Steve also served in the mid 1980s as New Jersey's youngest state legislator at age 26.

Steve currently anchors three WNET
WNET
WNET, channel 13 is a non-commercial educational public television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey. With its signal covering the New York metropolitan area, WNET is a primary station of the Public Broadcasting Service and a primary provider of PBS programming...

 (PBS) broadcasts — Caucus: New Jersey, an Emmy Award-winning public affairs television series, also broadcast on NJN-Public Television; and NJ Capitol Report, a news program covering New Jersey political issues on a weekly basis.

Steve has been the recipient of four prestigious Emmy Awards for his work on public television. In 1995, 2000 and again in 2001, the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented Steve with Emmy Awards in the category of “Best Host.”

In addition to his work on public television, Steve regularly appears on the TODAY Show, CNN, FOX News, FOX 5 in New York and CNBC as a media and communication analyst. He has also provided expert on-air commentary for NPR—National Public Radio. Steve currently provides political commentary on 77-WABC, the #1 talk radio station in the country, as well as WOR-710 AM and has hosted on both networks. Most recently, Steve contributes on a regular basis to CBS 2 “Sunday Morning” and provides political commentary to “Steve Adubato...on Politics” on the CBS 2 Web site.

In 1999, Adubato founded Stand & Deliver: Communication Tools for Tomorrow’s Leaders. The Stand & Deliver program provides communication and leadership skills training to young people in the Greater Newark Area. Topics covered in the program include leadership and team building; peace-making activities; presentation skills; interviewing techniques; conflict resolution, youth advocacy; listening skills; and overall communication effectiveness. Annually, the Stand & Deliver program provides over 500 young adults with the tools they need to become better citizens and to more effectively compete for and succeed in future employment.

Steve writes a weekly column for The Star-Ledger focusing on communication and leadership, which reaches over 1 million readers. He is a syndicated columnist, and contributes to New Jersey Monthly, the Atlantic City Press, The Record and NJBIZ.

In addition to his career as a broadcast journalist, Adubato is a Rutgers University visiting lecturer with a Ph.D. from Rutgers in the field of mass communication and a Masters from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers. He is also a “distinguished visiting professor” at Montclair State University in the field of broadcast journalism. Dr. Adubato’s research and writing has focused on the role of the media in American society and the current state of journalism.

New Jersey Monthly
New Jersey Monthly
New Jersey Monthly is a monthly glossy publication featuring issues of possible interest to residents of the United States state of New Jersey...

magazine named Adubato one of the top five most powerful media figures in the state. In the past, New Jersey Monthly selected Steve as one of the “50 Most Interesting People” in the state as well as one of the “25 Most Influential People in New Jersey.”

Adubato is the president of Stand & Deliver, which is a dynamic, hands-on professional development and executive coaching program Steve created to help today’s professionals reach their potential as leaders. Steve conducts communication workshops, seminars and keynote speeches on such topics as branding, presentation skills, leadership and team building, customer service and dealing with the media. Stand & Deliver clients in the corporate and non-profit sectors include Wachovia/Wells Fargo, Prudential, Saint Barnabas Health Care System, J.H. Cohn, Merrill Lynch, NASA, Horizon BC/BS, Johnson & Johnson and the Port Authority of NY & NJ.

He is the author of the books, Speak from the Heart: Be Yourself and Get Results (Simon & Schuster), which was featured in Fortune magazine, as well as Make the Connection: Improve Your Communication at Work and at Home (Rutgers University Press). His third book, titled What Were They Thinking? Crisis Communication: The good, the bad and the totally clueless, examines highly-publicized and often controversial public relations and media mishaps. Steve’s most recent book, titled YOU Are the Brand!, will be released in August 2011.

Adubato has been a resident of Montclair, New Jersey
Montclair, New Jersey
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 38,977 people, 15,020 households, and 9,687 families residing in the township. The population density was 6,183.6 people per square mile . There were 15,531 housing units at an average density of 2,464.0 per square mile...

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External links

  • About Caucus Educational Corporation: http://www.caucusnj.org/
  • About Stand & Deliver: http://www.stand-deliver.com/
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