Decades In The Making In New Jersey: Goodbye To Newspapers

The New Jersey Legislature and Governor Phil Murphy took decisive action and eliminated a mandate that will result in the likely closure of certain newspapers in New Jersey.

Newspapers have counted on this income for decades. It’s now gone forever. Newspapers will not be far behind.

They have experienced a torturous “The death of a thousand cuts.”

Mandatory Advertising In Newspapers Ends

It was never the right thing to do. Taxpayer dollars Shoujd never have been spent in the firm of this mandate. However, in the year 2025, it absolutely needed to end.

Local, County and State governments were required to buy advertisements in newspapers to publish notices of meetings, budgets, planning board applications, foreclosures, along with other bid solicitations and government actions.

Governments were forced to buy these newspaper ads under the New Jersey Open Public Meetings Act.

This cost taxpayers many thousands of dollars each and every year for decades. What a waste of money it has been.

Newspapers Will Become Extinct

I made this prediction on-air more than 33 years ago … stating that in our lifetime, newspapers as we know them would cease to exist.

With the digital technology of today and tomorrow … a physical printed newspaper is both arcane and unnecessary.

New Jersey Legislature & Governor Murphy Takes Formal Action

New Jersey local, county and state governments are no longer are required to publish notices in newspapers under a new law that Governor Phil Murphy signed on June 30, 2025.

Newspapers Are Costly To Print

It’s not only the cost to print, it’s the fact that by the time the newspaper arrives to a home or business … the news is stale.

SOURCE: New Jersey Legislature & Governor Phil Murphy.