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NBC Page From NJ Makes SNL Debut With Aubrey Plaza NBC Page From NJ Makes SNL Debut With Aubrey Plaza
NBC Page From NJ Makes SNL Debut With Aubrey Plaza Starting his dream job in the NBC Page program two days after graduating from University of Virginia would've been plenty for Micah Rucci. But last Saturday, Jan. 21, the 23-year-old North Wildwood native's dream job got even cooler, as he made his "Saturday Night Live" debut with host Aubrey Plaza. Rucci and the other pages joked they'd be written into the script, as Plaza was famously in the same program when she was around their age. So when Rucci saw his name next to Plaza's, Amy Poheler's, and his coworker Talya Ozbelli's on the call sheet, he was in disbelief. "I thought, 'There's n…
NJ Native, Influential Washington Post Editor Neema Roshania Patel Dies, 35 NJ Native, Influential Washington Post Editor Neema Roshania Patel Dies, 35
NJ Native, Influential Washington Post Editor Neema Roshania Patel Dies, 35 A New Jersey native, Rutgers alumnus, and influential Washington Post editor died Monday, Oct 24 after a battle with gastric cancer, the newspaper wrote in her obituary. Neema Roshania Patel was 35, and most recently worked as the Post's editor for next-generation audience development, according to her LinkedIn profile. Born in Maplewood, Patel worked on her high school newspaper before graduating from Rutgers University with a degree in economics and journalism in 2009, her former colleagues wrote. She joined the Post in 2016, first as a digital editor before being named d…