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 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.
[6] She was succeeded by Claudia Ceva, sometime between November 2022[7]and April 2023.