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The Star-Ledger is the largest circulated newspaper in the U.S. state of New Jersey and is based in Newark. It is a sister paper to the Jersey Journal of Jersey City, The Times of Trenton and the Staten Island Advance, all of which are owned by Advance Publications. The Star-Ledger's daily circulation is larger than the next two largest New Jersey newspapers combined and its Sunday circulation is larger than the next three papers combined.[2] The paper is distributed across the state of New Jersey and its main competitors are the New York Times, New York Daily News, and New York Post.
[edit] HistoryThe Newark Daily Advertiser, founded in 1832, was Newark's first daily newspaper. It subsequently evolved into the Newark Star-Eagle, which merged with the Newark Ledger to become the Newark Star-Ledger, later changed to simply The Star-Ledger. (It is still popularly called the Newark Star-Ledger by many New York-area residents because of its heritage and its location in the Garden State's biggest city.) The Star-Ledger distributes county-wide local news sections with the paper to customers in Essex, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset/Hunterdon, Sussex/Warren and Union counties. In Hudson County its sister newspaper is distributed, the Jersey Journal. The same is done in Mercer County with the Trenton Times. All of these papers, as well as Advance-owned dailies in southern New Jersey, share a common web site, nj.com. During the 1960’s The Star-Ledger’s chief competitor was the Newark Evening News, once the most popular newspaper in New Jersey. In March 1971, the Star-Ledger surpassed the Evening News in daily circulation, because the Newark News was on strike. The Evening News shut down in 1972. Perhaps learning a lesson after the Newark Evening News’ disastrous move to a high traffic area (trapping its delivery trucks in inner-city traffic) the Star-Ledger opened a satellite plant in Piscataway. The Piscataway location offered quick access to Union, Monmouth, Somerset, and Middlesex counties. The Star-Ledger was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2005 for its comprehensive and clear-headed coverage of the resignation of the Governor of New Jersey Jim McGreevey, after he confessed to adultery with a male lover. The paper awards the Star-Ledger Trophy each year to high school teams that end up as the number one team in their respective sport in the state of New Jersey. [edit] 2000s financial troublesIn 2005, George Arwady became the publisher of The Star-Ledger. A graduate of Columbia University, Arwady had previously been the publisher of the Kalamazoo Gazette in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Having worked closely with the Newhouse family for years, Arwady was asked to move to Newark to financially revamp the paper.[citation needed] Because the paper was losing money, parent company Advance Publications said on July 31, 2008 that it would sell the Star-Ledger unless it could get 200 of its non-union staff to voluntarily leave under a buyout offer, and its unionized truck drivers and mailers to agree to concessions. [3] On September 16 publisher George Arwady sent employees a status update by e-mail, saying that management felt progress had been made on the buyout and concessions from the mailers, but that management is "far from an agreement with the Drivers’ union."[4]. The email continued:[4]
On October 24, 2008, the newspaper announced that 168 newsroom employees had offered to take the company's buyout offer, and that the company had accepted 151 of them, which will result in a newsroom staff that's 40% smaller.[5] [edit] Management[edit] Presidents
[edit] Executive editorsIn 1995, following the retirement of 32-year veteran editor Mort Pye, Jim Willse was appointed the editor of the Ledger. Willse was the former editor and publisher of the New York Daily News. Prior to accepting the Ledger's editor Willse headed up the review of electronic information options for all Newhouse newspapers. He also expanded the Ledger's use of color and encouraged a more aggressive editorial team. The National Press Foundation named Willse its 1999 recipient of the George Beveridge Editor of the Year Award in recognition of Ledger's coverage of racial profiling by the New Jersey State Police. [edit] The Star-Ledger in popular culture
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