The Newark Star-Ledger is a daily newspaper in Newark, New Jersey, USA covering local news, sports, business, politics and community events.
The newspaper is published seven days a week.
The Newark Star-Ledger is one of New Jersey's largest newspapers, covering news, events and people both locally and statewide. It emphasizes coverage of North Jersey where it is located, and the New York City metropolitan area of which it is part.
The newspaper began with the launch of the Newark Daily Advertiser in 1832, which later morphed into the Newark Star-Eagle. Samuel Irving Newhouse, the founder of Advance Publications, bought the Star-Eagle in 1939 and combined it with the Newark Ledger to form the Star-Ledger.
On October 30, 2024, Advance announced that the Star-Ledger will end publication in print on February 2, 2025 when it will shutter its printing plant. The paper will continue as a digital publication.
Circulation estimate: 278,940
The Newark Star-Ledger is one of the highest circulation newspapers in the USA.
This newspaper is owned by Advance Local Media LLC.
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-- The Newark, New Jersey newspaper, one of the most-read in the state, will publish its last print edition on February 2, 2025, owner Advance Local Media announced on October 30, 2024.
The company will close the paper's printing plant, which will also mean the end of printed newspapers from The Hunterdon County Democrat, The South Jersey Times and The Times of Trenton, although all will continue as digital editions.
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, November 3, 2024
-- Patrick Murray, the director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, says his polling about the 2021 New Jersey gubernatorial race was seriously flawed. In a blunt confession, he accepts the possibility that political polls do more harm than good.
Patrick Murray wrote at the Newark Star-Ledger on November 5, 2021:
Pollster: 'I blew it.' Maybe it's time to get rid of election polls.
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, November 28, 2021
-- In September 2014, Kevin Manahan replaced Drew Van Esselstyn as sports editor of the Newark Star-Ledger.
Posted by Mondo Times Editors, Boulder Colorado, January 26, 2015
-- January 20, 2013: The largest newspaper in New Jersey has laid off 34 employees, about half of them in the newsroom.
Publisher Richard Vezza said the newspaper would also seek concessions from its production unions, and that the Star-Ledger was looking into outsourcing the printing and packaging of the newspaper.
The paper is owned by Advance Publications, which is a large...
-- Lamar Graham, recently hired as chief content officer for NJ.com, which includes the Newark Star-Ledger, wrote a Facebook post: "I'm hiring! NJ.com -- New Jersey's biggest digital news operation -- is expanding."
The post has since been taken down. In a subsequent interview with David Carr of the New York Times, Graham said that the web site would just be expanding its reporting presence in areas of New Jersey where...Also in New Jersey...
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