Tom Jones Archives - New Jersey Globe

Company that owns NJ.com drops reader comments on their Michigan site

February 19, 2020 9:26 amFebruary 20, 2020 9:02 pm

MLive.com, run by the same company that owns NJ.com, is eliminating their comments section that sits beneath each story. That’s part of a growing trend nationally. The Gannett chain, which operates ten New Jersey daily newspapers, has dropped their comment...

Gannett layoffs begin with four jobs in New Jersey

December 6, 2019 9:47 amDecember 6, 2019 3:37 pm

Gannett began an extensive round of layoffs at several of their newspapers across the country on Thursday, including four non-newsroom jobs in New Jersey. Rick Edmonds, a media business analyst for Poynter, estimated that Gannett will layoff about 960 employees...

Failing LA Times digital strategy could be bad sign for Gannett New Jersey

July 31, 2019 12:27 pmAugust 1, 2019 9:27 am

This could be a precursor of events to come, or just apples and oranges. As Gannett’s seven daily newspapers in New Jersey bet the farm on increased digital subscription revenues, the Los Angeles times yesterday admitted that a nearly identical...

How Democratic voter lists wound up in GOP mayoral campaign

May 3, 2018 12:19 pmMay 4, 2018 12:14 pm

Eight days before the 2017 election, Jay Webber went to a Parsippany law office to make phone calls to help re-elect the Republican mayor, Jamie Barberio. Like any respectable politician,Webber posted a proof of life photo on his Facebook page...