Newark Star-Ledger

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 11:31am on Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

December 15, 2009: Rich Vezza, currently president of Penn-Jersey Advance Newspapers, has been named the new publisher of The Newark Star-Ledger.

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 2:10pm on Monday, December 7th, 2009

December 7, 2009: The Star-Ledger's arts and entertainment editor, Linda Fowler, has left the paper to become manager of communications and public relations at Princeton Symphony Orchestra.

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 2:22pm on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Newark Star-Ledger Editor Jim Willse has announced his retirement and named a successor, the Star-Ledger reported on September 28, 2009:

"Jim Willse will retire next month as editor of The Star-Ledger, and Kevin Whitmer, the paper’s managing editor, will succeed him, it was announced today.

Willse was The Star-Ledger editor for the past 15 years, during which time the newspaper won a host of national journalism awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes. It is considered one of the best regional papers in the country.

“It’s been a terrific run,” Willse told the staff at a noontime meeting. “It has been a great privilege to edit this paper and work with this staff. It’s also been an incredible amount of fun.”

Willse came to The Star-Ledger in 1995 after working on Internet projects for Advance Newspapers, the parent company. He succeeded Mort Pye, who had been editor since 1957.

"Jim inherited a great newspaper from Mort Pye and was a worthy successor," said Donald Newhouse, president of Advance Publications. "With a sure touch he served our readers, New Jersey, his staff and the profession brilliantly and with dedication. And he gave me two of the most thrilling days of the 40-plus years I spent at the Star-Ledger - when the newspaper was awarded its two Pulitzer Prizes.

Whitmer joined The Star-Ledger in 1996 and, before becoming managing editor, served as sports editor and supervised financial coverage and the Sunday paper. He and Willse were colleagues at The New York Daily News, where Willse was editor and Whitmer the sports editor.

Whitmer, 42, grew up in Phillipsburg and attended Rutgers University. He got his start in journalism as a part-time clerk answering phones in the Sports department at The Courier-News. He also worked at the New York Post. He and his wife, Regina, live in Scotch Plains with their three children."

The full story:
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/star-ledger_editor_jim_willse.html

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 10:42pm on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

A group of former Star-Ledger journalists have started a web site to compete with their former employer, Editor & Publisher reported on April 27, 2009:

"So what do you do when you have lots of newspaper experience and a year's salary from a recent buyout at The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J.?

You start a Website.

That seems to be the view of some 40 former Star-Ledger staffers who took the lucrative early retirement last fall and have since banded together to form newjerseynewsroom.com.

"We had started talking about doing this even before the buyouts were made," said Matt Romanoski, who spent five years at the paper, leaving as deputy sports editor. "There were several people involved early on."

The buyouts were among 151 in the Star-Ledger's 330-person newsroom last fall. They occurred after the paper threatened to close or sell if cost-cutting was not achieved.

The Web site launched two weeks ago and is headed by three former veterans of the Advance Publications daily - Romanoski, Garrett Morrison, and Andrew Lagomarsino."