ABOUT / NEWARK MEDIA LAB
EXPERIENCE WITHOUT THE EXTRA LAYERS.
Newark Media Lab is a Newark-rooted production partner for local organizations, businesses, and creators who need useful media—and a clear way to make it.
NML brings more than 20 years of television, design, production, and digital-media experience to projects that are too important to improvise but don’t need a giant agency wrapped around them.
WHY THE LAB EXISTS
A lot of local media work gets trapped between extremes.
One option is doing everything yourself: managing the idea, equipment, design, production, files, platforms, and follow-up at the same time.
The other is hiring a large operation whose process can become bigger than the job.
Newark Media Lab occupies the useful space between them: experienced, hands-on production with a scope that fits the actual need.
Small by design. Expandable by production.
HOW NML WORKS
NML operates as a focused core and brings in additional crew or specialist support when the project genuinely requires it.
BRIEF IT
Define what needs to exist, who needs it, and where it must work.
BUILD IT
Plan and produce the agreed deliverables with visible milestones and review points.
PUT IT TO WORK
Deliver, deploy, record, or run the production with an understandable handoff.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
- Start with the outcome—not the equipment list.
- Clear scope protects both the work and the budget.
- Useful beats complicated.
- The client should understand what they’re receiving.
- Local context changes how media should be made.
- Newark is a working community, not a decorative backdrop.
- Good production leaves behind assets people can actually use.
LED BY EXPERIENCE
Newark Media Lab is led by James Faber, a Newark-based Creative Producer + Media Systems Builder whose background spans television, layout and visual design, video production, live workflows, and digital publishing.
That experience shapes NML’s practical approach: understand the destination, anticipate the production problems, and build only what the job needs.
CONNECTED WHEN NEEDED
When a project requires deeper marketing strategy, automation, or specialist production capabilities, NML can coordinate trusted support without making the client assemble the team alone.
HAVE A JOB IN MIND?
You don’t need a polished creative brief. Tell us what needs to exist and what it needs to accomplish.