It's the Brian Laira show on WNYC.

Good morning again, everyone.

Now we continue our WNYC Centennial series,

100 Years of 100 Things.

It's thing number 49, 100 years of the Star Legend

newspaper. Why? Because if you haven't heard this yet, they've announced that starting in February,

they will entirely discontinue the print edition of the paper. Their content will be online only

at NJ.com. It's the end of a very long important

era in New Jersey journalism. Their related publications, the South Jersey Times and the Times

of Trenton will stop printing as well. And not the same company, but the Jersey Journal,

which has served Hudson County for more than 150

years, is completely shutting down, it announced, also in February on the 1st. So we'll open the

phones for what any of these Jersey papers have meant to you as a reader, an employee, if you

work for them, or used to work for them, or just a resident of the state,

or what the print edition of any newspaper we can expand it to that has meant or means to you,

especially the Star Ledger in particular right now, at 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433, 9692, call or text, as we welcome our guest for this segment,

Micah Rasmussen, director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University,

and former press secretary for Governor Jim McGreevy during McGreevy's term in office.

Micah, thanks for coming on. Welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you so much, Brian.

Do you know some of the early history?

I only know because I was reading up on it.

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