New Jersey Newspaper Employee's Mental Illness Chronicle Strikes a Chord

Mullen’s article is about the response garnered by co-worker Kathy Maloney’s very first piece for the paper. Published on May 11, “My Life With Joe” recounted the administrative assistant’s struggles with her late husband’s mental illness:

Since the story appeared, Maloney, an administrative assistant in the newspaper’s design studio, has been inundated with emails, notes and phone calls from as far away as Ireland, where she has relatives.