Ledger ending print edition

[seton1996]

Not sure how many people still get print editon of Star Ledger, but they are ceasing operations in early 2025 and will focus all resources on digital version and NJ.COM.

Star-Ledger ending print edition and closing production facility in 2025

NJ Advance Media says it will continue to invest in local journalism and cutting-edge technologies.

www.nj.com

 

[catholicman]

You can't use a digital edition for fish wrap, the main purpose of the Star-Ledger. 😂

 

[ivyhillparkk1963]

Good riddance Scarlet ledger liberal rag

 

[HALL85]

Speed, online rule the day. Such is the world of business. Need to evolve to survive.

Accuracy in reporting has declined significantly with advent of streaming and web. There is also no longer an appetite for deep investigative journalism. Big stories will be missed.

McNews….small bites that offer very little. Add to the bias that now permeate$$ the industry.

 

[NYShoreGuy]

Speed, online rule the day. Such is the world of business. Need to evolve to survive.

Accuracy in reporting has declined significantly with advent of streaming and web. There is also no longer an appetite for deep investigative journalism. Big stories will be missed.

McNews….small bites that offer very little. Add to the bias that now permeate$$ the industry.

Your assessment is mistaken. Longform journalism is out there but the consumer needs to find it moreso than ever before.

Institutions of journalism should seek accuracy and not seek being first.

I don't echo that stream/web has degraded reporting.

 

[lr591902]

This is a very sad day. At one point the Star Ledger had the best sports and editorial pages. It was the example of what a newspaper should be. Over time the paper changed as the new owners focused on cutting costs and fired many great writers. The Ledger has been dead for awhile. Today was just the wake.

 

[HALL85]

This is a very sad day. At one point the Star Ledger had the best sports and editorial pages. It was the example of what a newspaper should be. Over time the paper changed as the new owners focused on cutting costs and fired many great writers. The Ledger has been dead for awhile. Today was just the wake.

Jerry Izenberg was such a great read.

 

[jmt6762]

who cares. its not even worthy as toilet paper

 

[Bluebeard]

First paying job from age 11 to 14. Delivering it daily M-F with a bag and my dog walking almost a half mile to my first house. Steepest street in Cedar Grove Lakewood Ave. Saturday my dad would drive me, then go to breakfast. Just the two of us. The Sunday inserts came Saturday too, then I filled them. My dad would drive me as those 30 papers were heavy to carry. My dad taught me work ethic as he knew I did M-F on my own.

By the way, I haven’t read a hard copy in 25 years. Once they started charging for online, I stopped reading it there too.

 

[radecicco]

My brother, myself and my sister all delivered The (Newark) Star Ledger for over a decade back in the 1950s and 1960s. The cold and snowy winter mornings delivering before school were formative. Frankly a bad day as more and more daily print newspapers disappear.

 

[hbkmyr]

A sad day indeed. It also means the Jersey Journal will cease to exist with its staff being laid off. One of the few dailies still remaining that did solid reporting the old way. A huge loss for Hudson county.

 

[HallLine69]

You can't use a digital edition for fish wrap, the main purpose of the Star-Ledger. 😂

Classic cheap shot imho.

 

[HallLine69]

Good riddance Scarlet ledger liberal rag

And the cheap hits just keep on coming.

 

[HallLine69]

I can't find any reason to celebrate this latest death --along with the Jersey Journal's demise. I am a journalism graduate of Seton Hall. I was sports editor and later editor in chief of The Setonian. I wanted a career as a newspaper reporter. I worked in the field for several years, including time as a stringer for Dorf Features, the service Sid Dorfman provided to the Ledger. One of my very best friends --a fellow Seton Hall journalism graduate--worked as a reporter and editor for the Ledger for years. I eventually moved on to the world of corporate communications but always kept a fondness for reporters and reporting and newspapers. The death of print had become inevitable. So many good people lost their jobs and struggled to provide for their families. The schadenfreude in this thread is shameful...especially when it's based on political reasons. RIP Newark Star Ledger, along with the Jersey Journal, The Newark News, the Hudson Dispatch, the NJ Herald News, the Elizabeth Daily Journal and numerous other defunct dailies. No celebrating here because of their editorial policy. They were not perfect but they provided a great service and I miss them all.

 

[HALL85]

A sad day indeed. It also means the Jersey Journal will cease to exist with its staff being laid off. One of the few dailies still remaining that did solid reporting the old way. A huge loss for Hudson county.

It’s really two issues. Print media is disappearing…fewer users (compared to digital) and too costly.

Secondly, there is little value in today’s environment for solid reporting the old way. It’s about speed, clicks and short stories. When the masses are getting most of their news on X and TikTok, what does that tell you? In depth objective investigative reporting is disappearing.

 

[PJVegas]

And the cheap hits just keep on coming.

The Ledger today compared to when we were at SH has changed radically. Cheap shots now at an overpriced paper that’s DONE. Seems fair. 😎

 

[MichiganStoleTitle]

This is a very sad day. At one point the Star Ledger had the best sports and editorial pages. It was the example of what a newspaper should be. Over time the paper changed as the new owners focused on cutting costs and fired many great writers. The Ledger has been dead for awhile. Today was just the wake.

"New owners"? You must be pretty old. The Newhouse family has owned the paper since the 1930s! 😂

 

[Bluebeard]

First paying job from age 11 to 14. Delivering it daily M-F with a bag and my dog walking almost a half mile to my first house. Steepest street in Cedar Grove Lakewood Ave. Saturday my dad would drive me, then go to breakfast. Just the two of us. The Sunday inserts came Saturday too, then I filled them. My dad would drive me as those 30 papers were heavy to carry. My dad taught me work ethic as he knew I did M-F on my own.

By the way, I haven’t read a hard copy in 25 years. Once they started charging for online, I stopped reading it there too.

I was reminded when I saw a comment mentioning price. In 1974 when I started, the price was $.10 daily and .25 for Sun. I would collect .85 per week. I believe the paper paid me $5.00 for the week, plus tips.

 

[HallX2]

Hate what it’s become but have great memories of it.

 

[lr591902]

"New owners"? You must be pretty old. The Newhouse family has owned the paper since the 1930s! 😂

Should have said when publisher Arwady took over and started dismantling the staff, but I am really old.

 

[SPK145]

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

The Star Ledger is the real island of garbage.

 

[TomD82]

I still get the (bergen) Record delivered to me. They only eliminated the saturday print edition. Is that and the Asbury Park Press next to cease all print editions?

 

[HallLine69]

I can't find any reason to celebrate the demise of the Ledger's print edition or the final end for the Jersey Journal. I am a journalism graduate of Seton Hall. Hall. I was sports editor and later editor in chief of The Setonian. I wanted a career as a newspaper reporter. I worked in the field for several years, including time as a stringer for Dorf Features, the service Sid Dorfman provided to the Ledger. One of my very best friends --a fellow Seton Hall journalism graduate--worked as a reporter and editor for the Ledger for years. I eventually moved on to the world of corporate communications but always kept a fondness for reporters and reporting and newspapers. The death of print had become inevitable. So many good people lost their jobs and struggled to provide for their families. The schadenfreude in this thread is shameful...especially when it's based on political reasons. RIP Newark Star Ledger, along with the Jersey Journal, The Newark News, the Hudson Dispatch, the NJ Herald News, the Elizabeth Daily Journal and numerous other defunct dailies. They were not perfect but they provided a great service and I miss them all.

 

[Hall84]

I still get the (bergen) Record delivered to me. They only eliminated the saturday print edition. Is that and the Asbury Park Press next to cease all print editions?

The Home News Tribune works the same way. Online for Saturday and print edition delivered the other 6 days.