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Richard Cowen | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Richard Cowen is a Breaking and Local News reporter with NJ Advance Media. New Jersey born and bred, Richard has covered the state for nearly 40 years. He's won numerous awards, including the National Press Club's First Amendment Award for a series of stories on how municipal governments all over New Jersey routinely abused the state's Sunshine Law protecting the public right to know. He's written thousands of stories with datelines all over New Jersey--covering crime, the courts, education, the environment, and all things politics--and loves doing the work of finding out what he doesn't know.