The Record (Bergen County)

This article is about the newspaper in Bergen County, New Jersey. For other uses, see The Record (disambiguation).
The Record

The March 5, 2007 front page of The Record
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) North Jersey Media Group
Publisher Stephen A. Borg
Editor Martin Gottlieb[1]
Founded June 5, 1895
Headquarters 1 Garret Mountain Plaza, Woodland Park, NJ 07424
Circulation 144,897 Daily
167,969 Sunday[2]
Website NorthJersey.com

The Record (colloquially called The Bergen Record or The Record of Hackensack[3]) is a newspaper in northern New Jersey, United States. It primarily serves Bergen County, though it also covers Hudson, Essex and Passaic counties as well. It has the second largest circulation of New Jersey's daily newspapers, behind The Star-Ledger.[2] Founded in 1895 and owned by the Borg family since 1930, it is the flagship publication of the North Jersey Media Group. Stephen A. Borg is the publisher of The Record. The paper is edited by Martin Gottlieb.

For years, The Record had its primary offices in Hackensack with a bureau in Wayne. Following the purchase of the competing Herald News of Passaic, both papers began centralizing operations in what is now Woodland Park, where The Record is currently located.

History

In 1930 John Borg, a Wall Street financier, bought The Record.[4]

From 1952 to 1963 the circulation of The Record doubled and its coverage changed from local to regional.[5] It was one of the papers whose editorial position was in favor of the Metropolitan Regional Council (MRC)[5]

In 1974, writers in the area voted The Record first in the categories of writing, editing and local coverage.[4] It provided different local news coverage for various areas in its distribution range.[4]

In 1983, the paper had a daily circulation of just over 149,000 with its readership described as "upscale".[4]

On September 12, 1988, its afternoon publication and delivery changed to early morning. When combined with more centralized distribution requiring carriers to have automobiles, many "youth carriers" (paperboys) were put out of work.[6]

Format and style

The paper's approach to coverage made it "read like a magazine".[4] Rather than a focus on breaking news on its front page, it featured "The Patch", a thematic topic or investigative report.[4]

Raising the Flag at Ground Zero

In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, a photographer for The Record, Thomas E. Franklin, took a photograph of three firefighters raising an American flag over the rubble of what had been the World Trade Center. This became an iconic photo known as Raising the Flag at Ground Zero.[7][8] A follow-up story by Jeannine Clegg, a reporter for The Record, about the flag raising efforts by the firemen that led to the photo appeared in the newspaper on September 14, 2011.[9] The Record owns the rights to the photograph, but has licensed it in exchange for donations to September 11 causes, as long as the photo is used in a "dignified and proper manner" for non-commercial purposes.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Columbia Journalism Review: Setting a new Record
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "2013 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation" (PDF). BurrellesLuce. January 31, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  3. ↑ 1995 Pulitzer Prize Winners for Commentary
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Sloat, Warren (2013-11). The Press and the Suburbs: The Daily Newspapers of New Jersey. Transaction Publishers. pp. 40–. ISBN 9781412851930. Retrieved 16 January 2014. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Aron, Joan B. (1969). The Quest for Regional Cooperation: A Study of the New York Metropolitan Regional Council. University of California Press. pp. 67–. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  6. ↑ Weber-Leaf, Pamela. "Carrying history: Paperboys (and girls) of The Record". (201) Magazine (BergenCounty.com). Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  7. ↑ "‘Raising the Flag at Ground Zero:' Photographer’s Account". Pioneer Times. September 15, 2011. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Raising the Flag at Ground Zero". Alfred NY Biz. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  9. ↑ "About the Photo". Ground Zero Spirit. North Jersey Media Group. 2011. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  10. ↑ Ground Zero Spirit photograph licensees, accessed September 25, 2006
  11. ↑ Rohan, Virginia. "Robert Leckie's postwar experiences", The Record (Bergen County), May 17, 2010. Accessed August 19, 2013. "Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale) is seen returning to Rutherford, where he courts his pretty neighbor, Vera Keller. He also reapplies for his job as |a local sportswriter at The Bergen Evening Record.... As it turns out, he did return to The Bergen Evening Record, not as a sportswriter, but as a feature writer, reports his daughter, Joan Leckie Salvas."

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