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Star Ledger Sees Loss of 151 Newsroom Staff, Displaces 2 Reporters to Mail Room

Tuesday, 25 November 2008 – 1:38 pm

The effects of the Star Ledger buyouts are becoming apparent as the paper circulates information about which reporters and photographers will stay on at the paper: Buyout-Depleted ‘Star-Ledger’ Reassigns Two Journos — To Mailroom.
When a newspaper cuts its staff, those who remain in the depleted newsroom become valuable. But as The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. slowly [...]

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Interview: Robert Snyder, Associate Professor of Journalism at Rutgers-Newark

Friday, 26 September 2008 – 2:04 pm

The Star Ledger, established in 1832, is the 15th largest paper in the country by circulation, delivering a half-a-million papers on any given Sunday.  The paper received a Pulitzer in 2005 for its coverage of Governor McGreevy’s resignation.
Despite its success, the Ledger has been losing as much as $30 to $40 million a year due to [...]

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