Forbes magazine has released its annual list of the 400 richest people in America, and of the five New Jersey men on the list, one has ties to Jersey City. Donald Newhouse, who oversees the newspaper portion of Jersey Journal parent company Advance Publications, lands at number 55 on the list, with a reported net [...]
The Jersey Journal‘s unionized editorial staff members will protest today for a second straight day in front of the paper’s Journal Square offices today as they fight parent company Advance Publication’s plan to cut their benefits and freeze their pay. Workers at the paper have been without a contract since June 2009. As we reported [...]
More bad news for New Jersey’s largest newspaper is coming from Newark today, as the Star-Ledger‘s publisher says it must continue to shed staff as advertising revenue keeps waning. In a memo sent to employees today (see below), Ledger publisher Richard Vezza says the paper sits “at a very precarious point” and will once again [...]
Yesterday Jersey Journal publisher Kendrick Ross announced that Jersey City’s only daily paper and its affiliated community weeklies had met first quarter revenue projections and will continue publishing for now, avoiding an April 13 closure that was threatened earlier this year. But the paper will be forced to press on with a smaller staff. “The [...]
Advance Publications, which is threatening to close the Jersey Journal, is shutting down one daily paper and is instituting furloughs and pension freezes at scores of others. The Ann Arbor News will cease publication in July after publishing daily since 1835. In announcing the decision to employees, publisher Laurel Champion said the “business model is [...]
- As we reported yesterday, some critics of Mayor Healy are upset about his campaign’s rental of a Jersey City Incinerator Authority truck to use in Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. “Because he knows people in high places, he gets away with it,” mayoral candidate Lou Manzo tells the Journal. In an editorial, the paper [...]
We reported last week that the ailing paper’s editorial union had been asked by management to come to a meeting this Tuesday with a list of employees ready to take the paper’s buyout offer. Newspaper Guild Local 42 president Ron Leir told us last week that they already had four staffers lined up, ready to [...]
As we reported on Friday, Local 42 of the Newspaper Guild was preparing a counteroffer to Jersey Journal owner Advance Communications for a meeting this week as the paper confronts a possible closure on April 13. Let’s just say the meeting could have gone better for the ink-stained wretches of Journal Square. As part of [...]
Our story last week on the turmoil at Jersey City’s daily paper included this paragraph: Reporter Ron Leir, the president of the Newspaper Guild’s Local 42, says that when he started as a full-time employee at the Journal in February 1972, there were about 60 editorial department employees. By 2002, that number had shrunk to [...]
Early in February, while checking the streams of Facebook status updates of my acquaintances, I came across an interesting tidbit: Someone had joined the group “Save the Jersey Journal.” Since then, the group has grown quickly as the fate of the 142-year-old newspaper remains uncertain.
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