The Star-Ledger

All you want to know about The Star-Ledger

The Star-Ledger

The October 25, 2006 front page of
The Star-Ledger
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner Advance Publications
Publisher George Arwady
Editor Jim Willse
Founded 1832
Headquarters 1 Star-Ledger Plaza
Newark, New Jersey 07102
 United States
Circulation 345,130 Daily
500,382 Sunday[1]
Website: nj.com/starledger

The Star-Ledger is a 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]

Contents

History

The 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. 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 Newark and 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.

Recent financial troubles

In 2005, George Arwady became the publisher of The Star-Ledger. Arwady had previously been the publisher of the Kalamazoo Gazette Arwady was asked to move to Newark to turn the paper around financially.[citation needed]

Because the paper is 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]

Since it is doubtful that the Drivers will ratify an agreement by October 8, 2008, we will be sending formal notices to all employees this week, as required by both federal and New Jersey law, advising you that the Company will be sold, or, failing that, that it will close operations on January 5, 2009.

Management

Presidents

Executive editors

In 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.

The Star-Ledger in popular culture

The Star-Ledger was featured predominantly various times in the television series The Sopranos, an HBO drama series set in New Jersey. The newspaper was referenced by George Carlin in the 2004 comedy/drama, Jersey Girl, which was written and directed by New Jersey native Kevin Smith.

References

  1. ^ "2008 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation" (PDF). BurrellesLuce (2008-03-31). Retrieved on 2008-07-27.
  2. ^ New Jersey Press Association - Member Newspapers - Dailies, New Jersey Press Association; Star-Ledger data from Editor & Publisher April 2007 article.
  3. ^ Star-Ledger gives staff a deadline for buyouts from nj.com
  4. ^ a b 'Star-Ledger' Publisher Threatens January 2009 Shutdown, a September 2008 article from Editor & Publisher

The Star Ledger was featured to in the novel, "Shadow Divers."

External links

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Ledger"

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