Laid-off journalists launch independent broadsheet

Laid-off journalists launch independent broadsheet: Heeten Choxi, a Montclair resident and tech executive specializing in robotics and artificial intelligence, started the conversation with Gwen Orel, a former veteran arts and entertainment reporter/editor at The Montclair Times. Choxi and his wife invested several hundred thousand dollars in the paper, with an initial budget of about $700,000, according to Poynter.