Two long -standing newspapers in the New York region, including one immortalized in “The Sopranos”, are disappear from newspaperLeaving Jersey City without the new prints while the media are fighting against the winds on the national level.
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On the other side of the New York River, the New Jersey Star -Ledger fate – read by the fictitious boss of the crowd Tony Soprano – and the Jersey Journal leaves the inhabitants without physical paper and certain journalists, Paperboys and printers unemployed.
The Star-Ledger is go online And the Jersey Journal is Climb the shop completelyreports NJ.com, which publishes content of the two, among other points of sale. NJ Advance Media has the Jersey Journal, The Star-Ledger and Njcom.
“My heart is broken,” said Margaret Doman, at the foot of a group of mushroom buildings in Jersey City, at the sight of Manhattan.
“I use the Jersey Journal for many things – not only to read the news, but to publish information and to erect what is happening in the city,” said the longtime resident and community activist.
“The Jersey Journal Ceese Publication is like losing an old friend,” said a letter to the publisher.
At the heart of the newspaper Square, named after the daily founded in 1867, the “Jersey Journal” in giant red letters adorned the building which once housed the editorial hall, long moved.
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With 17 employees and less than 15,000 copies sold daily, the Jersey Journal could not resist the bodily blow which was the closure of the prints which he shared with the biggest daily newspaper in New Jersey, which becomes digital this weekend- end.
Star-Ledger president Wes Turner underlined an editorial on NJ.com who said that the closure was forced by “the cost increase, the reduction in traffic and the reduction in printing demand”.
The newspaper, which appeared in the emblematic television series of the New Jersey Mafia, won the Coveted Pulitzer award in 2005 for a series of articles on the political upheavals of the Governor of the Jim McGreevey time.
But the scoops did not save everyday life, because the sales have dropped and the Papere crossed several cycles of painful redemptions.
With the transition to All-Digital, even its editorial committee will be abolished, announced one of its members, Tom Moran.
Local newspapers refuse across the country
The decline of the local press was a slow and painful death in the United States.
According to the latest report by the Northwestern University medill School of Journalism, more than a third of newspapers – 3,300 in all – have been exhausted since 2005.
They were victims of a drop -down readership and the consolidation of titles in a handful of business masters.
“When a newspaper disappears, there are a number of tangible consequences,” said report director Zach Metzger.
“Voter participation tends to decrease. Voting with fractional ticket tends to decrease. Holders are re -elected more often. Corruption rates can increase. Police misconduct rates can increase. »»
Fewer local articles and the domination of the main national problems in the news cycle are also often given as reasons for the creeping polarization of the American society between the left and the right.
Steve Alessi, president of NJ Advance Media, wrote on NJ.com that the termination of printing “represents the next step in the digital future of journalism in New Jersey” and has promised new investments for the website, which claims more than 15 million unique monthly visitors.
He presented several flagship investigation projects on political extremism, as well as the mismanagement of private schools in the region, the production of podcasts and newsletters to attract new readers.
“There is still a digital divide across the country. … My concern is for people who are not numerically acclimatized, they always go to their public libraries or to a newspaper to see a physical copy of the newspaper, “said Kenneth Burns, president of the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists.
“There is not many points of sale that already kept an eye on local affairs,” he said, calling the “institution” Met-Lindger.