Newark’s Star-Ledger newspaper to end print edition in 2025

Newark’s Star-Ledger volition people its last newspaper connected Feb. 2.

Newark Morning Ledger Co., which owns the Star-Ledger, cited rising costs, decreasing circulation and reduced request for people arsenic reasons it’s shutting down its Montville, N.J., accumulation works and going digital, according to the paper’s website, NJ.com.

The Jersey Journal volition besides extremity 157 years of printing newspapers astatine the commencement of February arsenic a effect of Newark Morning Ledger Co. closing its accumulation facility.

NJ.com besides reports its genitor company, Advance Local — which owns NJ Advance Media excessively — volition halt printing The Times of Trenton and South Jersey Times connected Feb. 2.

“Today’s announcement represents the adjacent measurement into the integer aboriginal of journalism successful New Jersey,” NJ Advance Media president Steve Alessi said successful a connection reported by NJ.com.

Alessi called going integer a “forward-looking decision” that volition let the institution to allocate resources to the journalism produced by its newsroom alternatively than a people product.

He said his company’s newsroom employs much reporters than it did a twelvemonth agone and expects to get adjacent bigger adjacent year.

NJ Advance Media journalists volition proceed contributing worldly for  NJ.com and integer versions of The Star-Ledger, The Times of Trenton and South Jersey Times. Star-Ledger employees chopped escaped volition reportedly person severance and modulation assistance.

NJ.com claims its online postulation — 15.2 unsocial visits successful the astir caller period for which information was disposable — marque it the nation’s largest section quality site. By contrast, the Star-Ledger’s people circulation has reportedly dropped much than 20 percent successful the past year.

The Star-Ledger is New Jersey’s largest newspaper.

According to NJ.com, Newark’s archetypal paper was The Daily Eagle, which deed newsstands successful 1832. That insubstantial became the Newark Star-Ledger successful 1939 erstwhile it merged with the Newark Star-Eagle. “Newark” was formally dropped from the rubric much than 30-years later.

The Star-Ledger’s era-ending quality spread quickly connected societal media, wherever the aboriginal of carnal newspapers stoked debate.

“Same aged story: ‘Rising costs, decreasing circulation and reduced request for print,'” CNN media newsman Brian Stelter posted connected X.