Jersey Journalist's Career Began the Day After Hitler Invaded Poland

Jake Schaad Jr. is still doing what he has always loved to do – write newspaper articles. The main differences today are that he works on a computer instead of a typewriter and files from a home office rather than some newsroom.

The 91-year-old vet tells fellow Wildwood Leader reporter Christie Rotondo that he is likely the oldest working print journalist in the United States. In fact, we have written about at least one other reporter who has a few years on Schaad.

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