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, New Jersey 07102  United States |
| Circulation | 372,629 Daily 570,523 Sunday[1] |
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| Website: nj.com/starledger | |
The Star-Ledger is the leading 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]
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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.)
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 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.
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.
[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 (1832-1963)
- 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 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.
[edit] George Arwady
In 2005, George Arwady became the publisher of The Star-Ledger. Arwady was the publisher of the Kalamazoo Gazette prior, which is located in Kalamazoo, MI. He has worked very closely with the Newhouse family for over 30 years. Arwady was asked to move to Newark to head up The Star-Ledger and turn the paper around. The paper wasn't doing well financially. Since Arwady's arrival, however, the paper has won another Pulitzer Prize, although that award was for coverage of the resignation of Gov. James E. McGreevey, which occurred prior to Arwady's tenure at the paper.
[edit] References
- ^ 2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation (PDF). BurrellesLuce (2007-03-31). Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
- ^ New Jersey Press Association - Member Newspapers - Dailies, New Jersey Press Association; Star-Ledger data from Editor & Publisher April 2007 article.
