The Star-Ledger
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| The Star-Ledger | |
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 The October 25, 2006 front page of The Star-Ledger |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Advance Publications |
| Publisher | George Arwady |
| Editor | Jim Willse |
| Founded | 1832 |
| Headquarters | 1 Star-Ledger Plaza Newark, NJ 07102  United States |
| Circulation | 398,329 Daily 599,628 Sunday[1] |
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| Website: nj.com/starledger | |
The Star-Ledger is the leading newspaper of New Jersey and is the 12th biggest newspaper in the United States by circulation, with an average circulation of approximately 400,000 daily and 600,000 on Sundays.[2] It is based in Newark. Within the New York City metropolitan area, it is a sister paper to the Jersey Journal of Jersey City, The Times of Trenton and the Staten Island Advance.
The Star-Ledger's daily circulation is larger than next three largest New Jersey newspapers combined and its Sunday circulation is larger than the next four papers[3].
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[edit] 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.)
Although New Jersey's population is predominately suburban, The Star-Ledger deemphasized local news while many of the other newspapers in New Jersey covered more regional news.
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 of 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.
[edit] Management
[edit] Presidents
- Amzi Armstrong (1832-?)
- William Burnet Kinney (?-1851)
- Thomas T. Kinney (1851-1895)
- James Smith, Jr. (1895-1915)
- Paul Block (1915-1939)
- Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr. (1939-1979)
- Donald Newhouse (1979-?)
- Mark Newhouse (?-Incumbent)
[edit] Executive Editors
- Amzi Armstrong (1832-?)
- Mort Pye (1963-1994)
- Jim Willse (1994-Incumbent)
[edit] Jim Willse
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 Association 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] References
- ^ 2006 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation (PDF). BurrellesLuce (2006-03-31). Retrieved on March 7, 2007.
- ^ Newspaper sales dip, but websites gain, USA Today, May 8, 2006
- ^ New Jersey Insider: Newspapers O - T
