Star-Ledger to employees: buy-out or be sold
By Tina Renna | July 31, 2008
Radio news has announced today that The Star-Ledger has asked for 25% of their employees to take a buy-out to avoid the newspaper having to be sold.
The Star-Ledger is Union County’s only daily newspaper. They rightfully claim that they have the largest readership in the county, yet they haven’t had a reporter covering Union County government for almost a year now (since late last August). Even before that it was spotty coverage. The Star-Ledger sold out their Union County readers years ago.
Union County reporting couldn’t be any worse off even if the Star-Ledger’s new publisher was located in China, where they also pass government press releases off as news.