Michael Aron, an award-winning and universally respected broadcast journalist who was chief New Jersey political correspondent at New Jersey public television for four decades, died Tuesday. He was 78. Aron was a daily fixture on New Jersey Network News and considered the “dean of the Statehouse Press Corps.” He covered every governor from Brendan Byrne to Phil Murphy and authored a book on the tumultuous 1993 gubernatorial campaign between Christie Whitman and Jim Florio. “Few journalists ever garner the widespread level of respect Michael Aron achieved,” said the WNET Group President & CEO N…