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Someone better tell the Observer staff their paper closed. I don't think they knew.

The Observer looks like a paper, but it functions as a weekly news magazine for key NYC industries. You don't get the daily news from it.

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Journal parent works to keep papers open

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

The Evening Journal Association announced to its employees yesterday that the company would cease publication of The Jersey Journal and a string of weekly newspapers in Hudson County on April 13 if its revenue is not sufficient to support the papers' reduced expense plan.

"It saddens me to have to make this announcement," Kendrick Ross, the publisher, said in addressing the staff gathered in the newsroom.

In a statement, he added: "We are optimistic that we will be able to come up with a plan that will save The Jersey Journal and some of our weeklies and position ourselves to grow, once the economy rebounds."

The EJA publishes the six-days-a-week Jersey Journal as well as weeklies serving residents of Bayonne, West Hudson and Secaucus and along the Hudson River waterfront in Hudson County.

"We will be looking at everything," Ross said. "We understand how important it is for Hudson County to have a strong local newspaper and we'll be doing everything we can to make sure we can continue to provide that service."

On Friday, Ross announced that the EJA will cease publication of El Nuevo Hudson, the company's Spanish-language free weekly newspaper, with the Feb. 26 paper being the final El Nuevo Hudson edition.

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I only wish the weekly Jersey City Reporter would go out of business. It is worse than the Jersey Journal, just a bunch of classified ads and stories nobody cares about.

Next to the Kohls circulars, it's the most annoying piece of junk mail that gets dropped off by my condo building every week. Nobody reads them, they pile up there and get all wet and soggy, making a mess.

16 pages of crap for 50/ 75 cents. I can read it online. I am a Brooklyn Kid and the NYC papers gives me the real " BS" story for .50.

I mean no disrespect to the writers involved with the JJ but the paper lacks on many regards.

It reminds me of the now defunct NYC Observer.

Try try try but money is lacking lacking lacking.

You get what you pay for.

" All the News That is Fit to Print"


Hummmm

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Nah. Never seen it.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Print in general is on the way out and it stinks.. i love the JJ. this happened a few years back hopefully they can weasel out a couple more years..

Now that was funny. I reminds of my local paper. First "police posting" then who died. Oh no I have a "Master" email. God knows what happened Know

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It's required reading if you either live or work here in J.C. I like reading the obits first then the opinion section next. This way I can see who's talking about me and who's not anymore.

That paper sucks. It has 16 pages if.

Doesn't anybody read the newspaper anymore ? I enjoy reading the Jersey every morning with breakfast. If you get the Jersey Journal delivered you also get a free Sunday Star Ledger on Sunday. I like getting the freebie on Sunday because of all you get inside. I can't stand reading the paper on the net it's uncomfortable and a strain. Some people feel reading a paper for news is an ancient way of absorbing daily current events, not green enough, and dirty with ink smears.

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Jersey Journal's parent company warns of newspaper's possible closure
by The Star-Ledger Continuous News Desk
Monday February 02, 2009, 4:51 PM

The parent company of The Jersey Journal warned employees today that revenue troubles could force the paper to close by mid-April, according to a report by the newspaper.

Despite the announcement by the Evening Journal Association, publisher Kendrick Ross said he was optimistic a plan could be made to save the journal and a string of other weekly newspapers.

The Star-Ledger and Jersey Journal are both owned by Advance Newspapers.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009 ... rnals_parent_company.html