Advance nixes NJ papers

[ICanRowCanoe?]

So long, Star-Ledger and others

 

[Regan MacNeil]

What does this mean? They're being sold? Shuttered?

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Ending print entirely:

https://www.nj.com/news/2024/10/sta...-and-closing-production-facility-in-2025.html

 

[ICanRowCanoe?]

I had no idea that NJ.com was so popular.

In August, the most recent month for which data is available, NJ.com ranked as the #1 local news site in the country, according to Comscore, a media measurement and analytics company. That month, the site had 15.2 million unique visitors, placing it even ahead of such national news brands as Wired, The Atlantic and Slate on Comscore’s rankings.

 

[ChadFelter]

Print is dead. While Gannett and others waste money and resources trying to squeeze out a couple extra pennies from washed-up advertisers, Advance is actually taking steps to keep the business alive.

 

[Readallover]

Star Ledger used to sell 400,000+ Sunday copies at the turn of the century. It's pretty stunning to me that it pulled the plug on print.

 

[Readallover]

Hard to believe The Trentonian, perhaps the most lurid tabloid in the U.S. when Sandy Schwartz was editor, will outlive the Trenton Times. Roasted Nuts

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

I hope this time they can make online work.

If not, there's always selling pork roll on the boardwalk.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Print is dead. While Gannett and others waste money and resources trying to squeeze out a couple extra pennies from washed-up advertisers, Advance is actually taking steps to keep the business alive.

Yes. Think of all the money they'll save by not hiring copy editors, or giving the work to a 22-year-old English major.

 

[Readallover]

I hope this time they can make online work.

If not, there's always selling pork roll on the boardwalk.

Or Taylor Ham. Hahaha

 

[MileHigh]

The Ledger is going online only. However, the Jersey Journal, which has been its de facto Hudson County bureau, is being eliminated altogether -- and the staff is being laid off.

https://www.nj.com/hudson/2024/10/a...rmed-the-jersey-journal-to-close-in-2025.html

 

[SixToe]

What Advance outlets still have print?

New Orleans, Ann Arbor, Alabama, Oregon, Syracuse, New Jersey are online.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Print is good enough for The Plain Dealer.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Harrisburg prints three days a week, although you wouldn't notice it. The paper is constructed in Edison, NJ, by people who never learned about headline counts.

 

[Readallover]

I think the Staten Island Advance is printed at the NJ plant that will close. But nothing so far on the future of the Advance.

 

[tapintoamerica]

The Ledger is going online only. However, the Jersey Journal, which has been its de facto Hudson County bureau, is being eliminated altogether -- and the staff is being laid off.

https://www.nj.com/hudson/2024/10/a...rmed-the-jersey-journal-to-close-in-2025.html

Story doesn’t provide context. Anyone know what this referred to?

Its front pages typically display a dash of irreverence ― large, cheeky headlines intended to grab commuters racing past a newsstand on their way to catch PATH, the light rail or a bus. (“Sex … fries, & ‘punch in the nose’” is a longtime favorite Journal head.)

 

[HanSenSE]

Spnited weeps.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Gonna ensure something small but very important is missing from an inevitable Sopranos reboot.

 

[dixiehack]

Print is dead. While Gannett and others waste money and resources trying to squeeze out a couple extra pennies from washed-up advertisers, Advance is actually taking steps to keep the business alive.

If AL.com is any indication, the patient is near death already. Two and a half good columnists who occasionally do great investigative work. And all of this nearly drowns in a sea of sports coverage that somehow manages to be overwhelming and shallow at the same time, plus warmed over press releases, recycled feature stories and a cops reporter who leans more towards stenographer.

 

[YMCA B-Baller]

I had no idea that NJ.com was so popular.

In August, the most recent month for which data is available, NJ.com ranked as the #1 local news site in the country, according to Comscore, a media measurement and analytics company. That month, the site had 15.2 million unique visitors, placing it even ahead of such national news brands as Wired, The Atlantic and Slate on Comscore’s rankings.

It's "popular" because it spits out clickbait by the truckload.