From delivering the paper to picking it up at the corner bodega to waging advocacy battles in its pages, readers from around the country recall their ties to The Jersey Journal.
In the thick of Journal Square, named for the daily founded in 1867, "Jersey Journal" in giant red letters adorns the building that once housed the newsroom, long since displaced.
Sunday was a sad day in the history of journalism. The Star-Ledger, a paper that had served Newark, New Jersey since 1796, and competed for scoops with the much larger dailies in New York City, ...