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As New Jersey's largest city, Newark played a major role in New Jersey's journalistic history. At its apex, The News was widely regarded as the newspaper of record in New Jersey. [1] For much of its life it had the largest circulation of any New Jersey newspaper, and in 1963 was the 20th ranked national newspaper by evening circulation numbers.
This is a list of newspapers in New Jersey. There were, as of 2020, over 300 newspapers in print in New Jersey. Historically, there have been almost 2,000 newspapers published in New Jersey. [1] The Constitutional Courant, founded in 1765 in Woodbridge, New Jersey, is the earliest known New Jersey newspaper. [2]
The paper dropped Newark from its masthead sometime in the 1970s, but is still popularly called the Newark Star-Ledger by many residents of New Jersey. [8] [9] During the 1960s The Star-Ledger ' s chief competitor was the Newark Evening News, once the most popular newspaper in New Jersey.
The Jersey Journal was a daily newspaper, published from Monday through Saturday, covering news and events throughout Hudson County, New Jersey. The Journal is a sister paper to The Star-Ledger of Newark, The Times of Trenton and the Staten Island Advance, all of which are owned by Advance Publications, which bought the paper in 1945.
In 1964, Kinney purchased Walter B. Cooke, Inc., which operated nine funeral homes in New York. [2] By 1964, the company had $29 million in sales and 6,000 cars in its fleet with 100 franchised auto dealers in six states who leased cars under the Kinney brand. [2]
The Record (also called The North Jersey Record, The Bergen Record, The Sunday Record (Sunday edition) and formerly The Bergen Evening Record) is a newspaper in New Jersey, United States. Serving Bergen , Essex , Hudson and Passaic counties in northern New Jersey , it has the second-largest circulation of the state's daily newspapers, behind ...
William Pennington (1796–1862), 13th Governor of New Jersey and Speaker of the House during his single term in Congress; Nehemiah Perry (1816–1881), member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey, Mayor of Newark; Theodore Runyon (1822–1896), Civil War general, Newark mayor, and U.S. ambassador to Germany
Mildred Joyce Coleman Crump [1] (November 3, 1938 – December 1, 2024) was an American politician who served on the Municipal Council of Newark, New Jersey from 1994 to 1998 and again from 2006 to 2021 and is the first Black woman to have served on the city's governing body. She was the first African American Braille teacher in New Jersey.