Adam Clark

A journalist and storyteller for the digital age. He is currently an enterprise/investigative reporter for The Star-Ledger and nj.com.

Featured work

NJ.com • June 24th, 2024

The hero we deserve

How Gritty emerged from the darkness to show us the way.

NJ.com • March 6th, 2022

Saving Charlie

A suicidal teen. A broken system. A N.J. family’s desperate fight to save its son.

NJ.com • June 23rd, 2024

The rise and fall of the Jersey seagull

The untold story of a formidable and notorious rebel, its unwelcome rise and impending fall.

NJ.com • July 9th, 2024

The tragedy of Sunny

Tammy Sytch was WWE’s original ‘diva.’ Inside a Jersey girl's stunning fall.

NJ.com • June 24th, 2024

The oral history of Wawa

How a store named after a town named after a goose attained cultural reverence typically reserved for the Holy Trinity of Jersey icons.

NJ.com • December 8th, 2022

The life & death of a ‘perfect human.’

A N.J. teen’s suicide reveals the depths of a growing crisis.

NJ.com • August 1st, 2023

The last of its kind

This N.J. family business should be dead. Inside a rural treasure’s fight to survive.

NJ.com • June 25th, 2024

Gone at 15

More N.J. teens are killing themselves in a crisis nobody was prepared for.

NJ.com • June 27th, 2021

The $1 million gamble

N.J.'s wild real estate boom is coming to an end. The only question is how quickly?

NJ.com • March 9th, 2021

Children of COVID

These N.J. kids lost a young parent to COVID. They will never be the same.

NJ.com • January 13th, 2024

The ultimate underdog

Nobody wanted Joe Flacco. Can the king of N.J. QBs prove everyone wrong again?

NJ.com • May 7th, 2024

The girl who can’t be fixed

A terrified girl was in crisis. Nobody would help her for 300 days.