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Daily print publication officially ceased on the 2nd of February 2025 due to rising costs and reduced demand for physical copies. The newspaper continues as a digital entity with no plans to restore daily physical distribution.
Amzi Armstrong served as its first president when the paper launched in 1832. William Burnet Kinney took over leadership after an unknown date and held the role until 1851 before Thomas T. Kinney led the publication from 1851 through 1895.
The newspaper won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2005. Editors covered Governor Jim McGreevey's resignation after he confessed to adultery with a male lover.
Advance Publications announced on the 31st of July 2008 that it would sell the Star-Ledger unless staff accepted buyouts. Management required 200 non-union employees to voluntarily leave under the offer terms while unionized truck drivers and mailers also needed to agree to concessions.
By 2015 that number had dropped further to 114,000 daily copies following a decline from 180,000 copies per day by 2013. Daily circulation figures continued their steady decline throughout the following decades.