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On July 6, 2016, Gannett, the nation's biggest newspaper chain, paid the Borgs $40 million for North Jersey Media Group (The Record of Woodland Park, Herald News, NorthJersey.com, (201) magazine and 50 weeklies). Stephen A. Borg, publisher for a decade, oversaw the biggest downsizing ever. Local news declined, errors mounted and most employees were denied raises. Gannett replaced Editor Deirdre Sykes, revised The Record's website and redesigned the print edition, cutting another 350-plus jobs.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Backlash to budget cutting diluted

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Why is The Record of Woodland Park reporting growing resistance to Governor Christie's budget cutting in piecemeal fashion? Are the lazy, incompetent editors trying to dilute the impact of protests by students, teachers, mayors and others by scattering the stories instead of doing a daily roundup?

Student walkouts in Englewood, Fort Lee, Paterson and other communities should have dominated Page 1 -- not a gee-whiz story on a one-armed tennis player.

In Local today, there is no news from Hackensack or Teaneck.

I don't know how head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes or her minions keep their jobs. Sykes is probably confident that if she left The Record, Harrington Park would hire her in return for her many years of loyalty in keeping any critical stories about her hometown out of the paper.

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JerryDApril 28, 2010 at 11:35 PM
You mean like this one? Went unreported:

ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: Harrington Park became the latest town to see its wall of protection eroded when its council agreed to lay off two of the department's 11 officers, effective May 17. That comes on the heels of nearby Park Ridge's decision to ax four employees, including a records clerk.

Harrington Park's is the same local government that requires at least one officer present whenever any commercial filming or videotaping is done in town.

"Hopefully these layoffs will not effect our response times to calls when people need us most," one officer said, in response to this week's council decision.

For those not familiar with the town: Harrington Park covers 2 square miles in northern Bergen County.

There are plenty of other municipalities that are now also talking about cutting back -- a frightening proposition for some residents.

Go to www.cliffviewpilot.com for more....

Thanks, Victor,
Jerry
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Victor E. SassonApril 29, 2010 at 1:10 PM
Didn't see this story in The Record. I never heard the full story of how Deirdre's husband, Kevin O'Neil, left The Record after so many years.
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