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The ''New Jersey Herald'' is a
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published six days (Sunday-Friday) every week. Its headquarters are in
Newton, New Jersey Newton, officially the ''Town of Newton'', is an incorporated municipality located in Sussex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is situated approximately by road northwest of New York City. As the location of the county's administrat ...
. It is the only daily newspaper published in
Sussex County, New Jersey Sussex County is the northernmost county in the State of New Jersey. Its county seat is Newton.Morris County and
Warren County Warren County is the name of fourteen counties in the USA. Some are named after General Joseph Warren, who was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War: * Warren County, Georgia * Warren County, Illinois * Warren County ...
in
New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...
, as well as
Pike County, Pennsylvania Pike County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,535. Its county seat is Milford. Pike County is included in the New York- Newark-Jersey City, ...
, and
Orange County, New York Orange County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 401,310. The county seat is Goshen. This county was first created in 1683 and reorganized with its present boundaries in 1798. Orange ...
.


History

The ''New Jersey Herald'' was first published in 1829 on a weekly basis, making it one of New Jersey's oldest published newspapers. In 1925, the paper got its first permanent home when a one-story building was built on High Street in Newton. In 1968, its headquarters moved to its current location at 2 Spring Street. The ''New Jersey Sunday Herald'' first published on June 11, 1962. In 1969, it was sold to American Newspapers Inc. The daily edition was first published March 16, 1970.
Quincy Newspapers Quincy Media, Inc., formerly known as Quincy Newspapers, Inc., was a family-owned media company that originated in the newspapers of Quincy, Illinois. The company's history can be traced back to 1835, when the ''Bounty Land Register'' was one of ...
acquired the company in March 1980. On May 16, 2019, it was announced that GateHouse Media had purchased the ''New Jersey Herald''. The 2 Spring Street building was not part of the sale and was sold separately. Soon after its purchase, its parent company, New Media Investment Group, bought Gannett in a merger that assumed its name and its headquarters in Virginia, with Mike Reed as CEO. Today, The ''New Jersey Herald'' is published six days a week (Sunday-Friday, excluding Saturday).,, New Jersey Insider. Accessed October 23, 2007.


Coverage

The ''New Jersey Herald'' covers many local news and sporting events mainly throughout Sussex County, and regularly publishes articles from the
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that cover state, national, and world events.


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Official Website
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