Eye on The Record

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.

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Turning off readers with sports

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If you're not a sports fan, seeing a good two-thirds of today's front page devoted to baseball, basketball and golf may make you wonder what you're missing -- and what The Record of Woodland Park missed. It's the second day in a row sports has eaten up a large part of Page 1.

The lead story on A-1 is about the continuing controversy over state aid to schools, but it's all downhill from there, and I'm not referring to skiing.

In Local, you won't find any news of Hackensack, Teaneck, Englewood or many other Bergen County towns. Yet on the Business page, you will find a second story about the new iPad. Wasn't the first enough free advertising?