WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY TO HOST 2017 NEW JERSEY GUBERNATORIAL DEBATE ON OCTOBER 18, 2017 --Candidates are Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno, Republican, and Ambassador Philip Murphy, Democrat William Paterson University, along with its media partners, WCBS broadcast affiliates in New York and Philadelphia and The Record/USA Today Network, will host the second and final New Jersey gubernatorial election debate on Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. in the Shea Center for Performing Arts on campus. Media partners will provide coverage via television, radio, print, web and social media throughout New Jersey. The debate will be broadcast live by WCBS-TV (New York), KYW-TV (Philadelphia), WCBS Radio (New York), WINS Radio (New York), and KYW Radio (Philadelphia) and the CBS broadcast will be streamed on Facebook Live and via the websites of The Record and its sister Gannett New Jersey newspaper sites across the state. The broadcast will be simulcast in Spanish on CBS affiliates and an SAP option will also be available for viewers. The debate will be moderated by Kristine Johnson, co-anchor of WCBS-TV in New York, who also moderated the debate in 2013. The media panel will also include Jessica Dean, co-anchor of KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Alfred Doblin, the editorial page editor for The Record, who also served on the media panels in 2013 and 2009, and Levon Putney, anchor/reporter for WCBS Radio. The broadcast of the debate will be shown in the Atrium, Cheng library, and the Martini Conference room in Hobart Hall, where a post-debate discussion panel will be held with faculty and students. Professors Joann Lee, communication, and Christine Kelly, political science, will moderate the post-debate discussion. Media Guidelines and Credential Application Directions and Campus Map
