The Star-Ledger is the largest circulated newspaper in the U.S. state of New Jersey and is based in Newark. It is a sister paper to the Jersey Journal of Jersey City, The Times of Trenton and the Staten Island Advance, all of which are owned by Advance Publications.
The Star-Ledger’s daily circulation is larger than the next two largest New Jersey newspapers combined and its Sunday circulation is larger than the next three papers combined.[2]
The paper is distributed across the state of New Jersey and its main competitors are the New York Times, New York Daily News and New York Post.
Because the paper is losing money, parent company Advance Publications said on July 31, 2008 that it would sell the Star-Ledger unless it could get 200 of its non-union staff to voluntarily leave under a buyout offer, and its unionized truck drivers and mailers to agree to concessions. [3] On September 16 publisher George Arwady sent employees a status update by e-mail, saying that management felt progress had been made on the buyout and concessions from the mailers, but that management is “far from an agreement with the Drivers’ union.”[4]. The email continued:[4]