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Gannett stock plunges to 65 cents a share

April 7, 2020 9:31 am

Gannett stock plummeted to 65 cents a share at market close on Monday, signaling immense problems ahead for the company that operates ten daily newspapers in New Jersey. The grim news follows recent furloughs of reporters and staff at several...

Reporters to be masked at Murphy briefings

April 6, 2020 9:35 am

Reporters attending Gov. Phil Murphy’s daily press briefings will be required to wear cloth face coverings, the governor’s office announce in an updated schedule released on Sunday. Murphy’s staff had already begin social distancing of journalists on March 19. Briefings...

Star-Ledger owner guts their Cleveland newspaper

April 3, 2020 12:28 amApril 3, 2020 10:45 am

The Cleveland Plain Dealer is expected to lay off 18 of their 32 reporters today, a gutting of a newspaper owned by Advance Publications, the owner of the Star-Ledger and four other New Jersey daily newspapers. Word of the massive...

Pay cuts, furloughs coming at Press of Atlantic City

April 2, 2020 10:52 am

The owner of The Press of Atlantic City will reduce the play of employees or furlough an equivalent of two weeks salary, according to a Poynter report. Lee Enterprises purchased the Atlantic City daily newspaper earlier this year from BH...

Lenox expands media company

April 2, 2020 9:14 amApril 3, 2020 12:31 am

Steve Lenox, a former top aide to U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg and a well-known public relations executive, has started a new media company to develop local news. Oasis Media operates TAPinto franchises in Paterson, Bayonne and Hamilton/Robbinsville and launched Jersey...

Gannett announces furloughs

March 30, 2020 11:57 am

Gannett, which operates ten daily newspapers in New Jersey, will begin furloughs of all employees making more than $38,000-per-year “due to economic effects from COVID-19,” according to a tweet from Mike Pettigano, a video reporter for The (Bergen) Record. Pettigano...

Journalist Alan Finder dies of coronavirus

March 24, 2020 1:58 pm

Coronavirus has claimed the life of Alan Finder, a former New York Times reporter who once worked for The (Bergen) Record. He was 72. Finer had covered Ridgewood and Elmwood Park for The Record before quickly becoming one of the...