Herald News
| 225px The July 27, 2005 front page of the Herald News |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | North Jersey Media Group |
| Editor | James McGarvey |
| Founded | 1872 (as Passaic City Herald) 1988 (as North Jersey Herald & News) |
| Headquarters | One Garret Mountain Plaza CN 473 Woodland Park, NJ 07424-3318 United States |
| Official website | NorthJersey.com |
The Herald News is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by North Jersey Media Group, which also publishes its sister paper, the Hackensack, New Jersey-based broadsheet The Record. The paper is published in Woodland Park (formerly West Paterson), New Jersey, and focuses on the Passaic County, New Jersey area. The Herald News has a daily circulation of nearly 50,000 and a Sunday circulation over 40,000[1]. Today's Herald News is descended from several papers, but did not come to be until two Passaic County papers out of Passaic and Paterson merged in 1988.
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[edit] North Jersey Herald-News
One of the two papers that merged to form the now-Herald News was the North Jersey Herald-News, which grew from the mergers of several papers in the Passaic-Clifton metropolitan area, and for many years was known as the Passaic Herald News. The paper was headquartered and published In the 1970s, the paper became known as the North Jersey Herald-News and was owned by the Drukker family, with former Congressman Dow Drukker founding the paper and relative Austin Crane Drukker owning and publishing the paper by the early 1980s; by this time the Drukker publishing interests had gone beyond just the North Jersey Herald-News and included other papers in the area, including a daily in Dover, New Jersey.
[edit] Paterson Evening News
Beginning publication in 1890, the Paterson Evening News was one of several daily papers that called the county seat of Passaic county home. The paper's chief competitor was the Paterson Morning Call, which eventually grew and absorbed the Paterson Morning News to become the Paterson Morning News and Call. By the 1970s the Evening News and the now News and Call were the only two remaining papers in the city. The two eventually merged in 1980, operating out of the headquarters of the Evening News on 16th Avenue, and became simply known as The News. At the time, the paper was owned by Allbritton Communications Company.
[edit] Merger
In 1985, MediaNews Group bought The News from Albritton. Shortly thereafter, the Drukker family sold control of the Herald-News to a MediaNews affiliate. MediaNews continued to operate both The News and the Herald-News out of their respective plants in Paterson and Passaic while beginning to plan a merger. In July 1987, the weekend editions of The News and North Jersey Sunday (the name for the Sunday Herald-News). Then, in September, MediaNews finalized the merger of the daily editions and the paper became known as The North Jersey Herald & News. Instead of replacing all of its street boxes with new machines, MediaNews stuck decals with the paper's new logo and slogan ("FIRST with the news...everyday!") on the outside of the machines. These decals included a rising sun logo, which eventually made its way to the street machines in the early '90s as the paper slowly began to replace its older yellow (Herald-News) and white (The News) machines.
Following the merger the former Evening News headquarters were closed, and publishing operations were moved to the old Herald-News headquarters in Passaic. The Evening News building is now used by a Paterson elementary school.
[edit] Further history
In 1997 the Herald & News began publishing the local Clifton paper Dateline Journal out of the Passaic building, it continued to do so until the building closed. The same year, MediaNews sold the paper to The Record, owned by the Borg family. (North Jersey Media Group was later formed as a holding company for the Borg's assets.)
Early in the 2000s, the paper dropped the ampersand from its name, and later would drop "North Jersey" as well, just being called the Herald News. Shortly thereafter, the operations of both The Record and the Herald News were merged. North Jersey Media Group set up a new headquarters in Woodland Park and moved the entire operation of the Herald News, as well as the Wayne, New Jersey-based Record Passaic County bureau and some of its operations, to the new building. (The Record's presses, offices, and other operations are still located in its Hackensack headquarters.) The former Herald News headquarters in Passaic has since been demolished and replaced by a Passaic middle school.
The Herald News' primary area of concentration is in Passaic County, while also covering news in the suburbs of the county (areas of Bergen, Essex, and Morris Counties) as well.
[edit] References
- ^ New Jersey Insider: Newspapers D-N, accessed September 29, 2006
[edit] External links
- NorthJersey.com, Herald News / The Record web site
- North Jersey Media Group (parent company) home
- New Jersey Insider: Newspapers D-N
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