The Star-Ledger, which has long been, in its circulation, New Jersey's largest daily newspaper, has now become an online-only publication.
The last hard-copy edition of the paper, which is based in Newark, in northern New Jersey, was published yesterday (February 2nd); the coming change had been announced in October.
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| The front page of The Star-Ledger's Sunday's edition |
The Star-Ledger's Editorial Board has been disbanded, with the demise of the paper's print edition. In its final editorial, on Sunday, the Board noted this:
More than 3,200 print papers – most of them weeklies -- have vanished since 2005, according to Northwestern University. Once upon a time, in what historians call the pre-TikTok Era, such events were alarming, but now newspapers disappear at a rate of more than two per week, victims of a seismic shift in a media landscape dominated by internet behemoths that produce little content but vacuum up most of the revenue.
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2025/02/lights-out-a-final-word-from-njs-only-editorial-board.html
Two of The Star-Ledger's daily sister publications, The Times of Trenton, and The South Jersey Times, also became, yesterday, online-only papers. An affiliated weekly, The Hunterdon County Democrat, became online-only on January 30th.
Another of the Star-Ledger's sister publications, The Jersey Journal, ceased publication entirely on Saturday. The Journal served northern New Jersey's Hudson County.
The Journal's farewell editorial, on Saturday, included the following:
In our first issue [in 1867] founders Z.K. Pangborn and William Dunning promised to be “frank and fearless, neither dreading the displeasure, nor fawning for the favor of anybody.” The Journal itself may not be here after today, but we hope that promise will continue to inspire Hudson County for decades to come.
