The Hudson Reporter
US newspaper
The Hudson Reporter was a newspaper chain based in Hudson County, New Jersey mainly focused on local politics and community news. The oldest newspaper in the chain was the Hoboken Reporter, founded in 1983. The chain stopped publication on January 20, 2023. It has subsequently become an online newspaper owned and operated by Newspaper Media Group.
The company published eight weekly newspapers and three local lifestyle magazines. The Reporters covered news and features in Hoboken, Jersey City, North Bergen, Weehawken, Secaucus, West New York, Union City, and Guttenberg. In Bayonne it was known as Bayonne Community News. The lifestyle magazines covered Bayonne (Bayonne: Life on the Peninsula), Hoboken (07030), and Jersey City (Jersey City Magazine).
History
The Hudson Reporter was founded in 1983 by Hoboken-based developer Joseph Barry, founder of the development company Applied Housing, who bought the weekly Hoboken Pictorial and its group of local newspapers. Its first newspaper was The Hoboken Reporter, which Barry published out of a small building in downtown Hoboken.
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