Jim Broderick, Ph.D., is an associate professor of journalism at New Jersey City University in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Prior to joining the faculty of NJCU, Broderick worked for newspapers and wire services in the Midwest and in New York City. He started his career at Indiana State University, writing humor columns and human-interest stories for its newspaper, The Indiana Statesman.

He began his professional career at a weekly newspaper in northeastern Indiana as a general assignment reporter covering the farm crisis in the mid-1980s. He has since worked at papers in Cincinnati, suburban Chicago and Jersey City. Before returning to graduate school, where he earned a Ph.D. in English, he worked as a copy editor at Dow Jones & Company in Manhattan.

Darren Miller spent two and a half years as an award-winning journalist reporting on the politics and people of Western North Carolina for The Mountaineer, a newspaper serving Haywood County, located just west of Asheville. He then became the newspaper’s assistant editor—a post he held until April 2006, when he took leave to work on several book projects.

He graduated from New Jersey City University in 2003 with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism. A former editor-in-chief of The Gothic Times in Jersey City, New Jersey, Miller has written about such topics as the death penalty (covering a North Carolina execution in person), natural disasters, murder trials, and municipal corruption, among a variety of other general news reporting and feature stories. An exposé he initiated, supervised and co-wrote at The Gothic Times led a local university to investigate its football program amid allegations of NCAA violations first detailed in Miller’s reporting.

Broderick is the author of two books: Paging New Jersey: A Literary Guide to the Garden State (2003, Rutgers University Press) and The Literary Galaxy of Star Trek (2006, McFarland Publishing). A frequent lecturer on New Jersey literature and pop culture, Broderick has been interviewed for many newspaper and magazine articles and has appeared on radio and done dozens of book signings. He continues to teach several journalism courses at NJCU and also serves as advisor to the university’s award-winning newspaper. He is married with two daughters and lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.

Miller is the recipient of awards from both the New Jersey Press Association and the North Carolina Press Association. He appeared as a guest on the television show, “Like It Is,” hosted by veteran newsman Gil Noble on New York City’s WABC 7, on the first anniversary of 9/11 to discuss the state of journalism during and since the attacks. Miller has appeared in schools and other venues to discuss his career as a journalist and currently writes about the media for a blog called Taking Notes. A native of Jersey City, New Jersey, Miller resides with his wife Heather and their three cats in Savannah, GA.