Nicholas Pugliese covers South Jersey for WHYY. He was previously a Statehouse reporter for The Record newspaper and several other Gannett-owned outlets in New Jersey. Prior to becoming a journalist, he played professional soccer for a club in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he also worked for a telecom company and blogged about his experience. A native of Rochester, N.Y., Nicholas graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts.
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