The Star-Ledger’s daily print circulation dropped 15% in 2023, according to reports filed with the Alliance for Audited Media.
The newspaper reported average daily print edition sales at 34,400, a catastrophic decline from just eight years ago when they sold 110,000 newspapers daily and 360,00 on Sunday.
Once the crown jewel of New Jersey journalism, the 192-year-old newspaper has been in sharp decline since its last Pulitzer Prize win in 2005. Financial losses have gutted their newsroom, which is down more than 70% since pre-Pulitzer staffing levels.
The Star-Ledger stopped printing Saturday newspapers at the end of last year.
Advance Publications, which owns the Star-Ledger and three other New Jersey newspapers, is one of the largest privately held companies in the U.S.
A smaller market daily newspaper, the Star Tribune in Minneapolis-St. Paul, reported its circulation at 83,500. More newspapers are sold in Buffalo than in New Jersey.