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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.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

The Record responds to hoax

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Click on the link below to read a blow-by-blow description of an April Fools Day hoax on North Jersey Media Group and the Borg family, owners of The Record of Woodland Park, Herald News, weekly newspapers and other publications.

The item appeared on nj.com, the Web site of the Star-Ledger, which has a news-gathering agreement with NJMG (Star-Ledger stories appear throughout The Record). Here is the link:

April Fool's Day Hoax

2 comments:

JerryDApril 3, 2010 at 3:50 PM
"We’re not going to comment on the story, other than it’s false," said Frank Burgos, The Record’s managing editor.

Um, wouldn't that be a comment?

And notice how stuffy, humorless that response is. If that doesn't speak volumes about the state of affairs at the crippled paper....
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Victor E. SassonApril 3, 2010 at 4:04 PM
Thanks, Jerry. You know, of course, Burgos is the newsroom hatchet man. He's the putz who calls in the older reporters and berates them on their "productivity." I don't think he ever acknowledged my existence more than one or two times.
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