The Progress

The Progress is a weekly newspaper that covers the six towns in the western area of Essex County, New Jersey: Caldwell, North Caldwell, West Caldwell, Fairfield, Roseland and Essex Fells.^[1] The newspaper was founded in 1911.^[1] The last available source for paid circulation shows the reach of this small town newspaper, with weekly paid circulation of 3,905 in May 2014.^[1]

The Progress is owned by New Jersey Hills Media Group, which bought the independent newspaper from co-owners John A. Sullivan III and Jean Conlon in 1998.^[2] Conlon, of West Caldwell, started work at The Progress in 1969 and became co-owner and editor in 1987.^[3]

Rita Annan-Brady of Caldwell, who joined the paper as lifestyles editor in 1995, replaced Colleen McSpirit^[a] as editor of The Progress in 1998;^[2] Annan-Brady relinquished that role to someone else in 2008, when she returned to lifestyles editor.^[2] By 2014, Lorie Greenspan was editor,^[4][a] when replaced by Russ Crespolini, who served as editor until September 2018.^[5] He was succeeded by Kathy Shwiff.^[6] She was succeeded by Claudia Ceva, sometime between November 2022^[7] and April 2023.^[8]