Merger
In 1985, MediaNews Group bought The News from Albritton. Shortly thereafter, the Drukker family sold control of the Herald-News to a MediaNews affiliate. MediaNews continued to operate both The News and the Herald-News out of their respective plants in Paterson and Passaic while beginning to plan a merger. In July 1987, the weekend editions of The News and North Jersey Sunday (the name for the Sunday Herald-News) were merged. Then, in September, MediaNews finalized the merger of the daily editions and the paper became known as The North Jersey Herald & News. Following the merger the former Evening News headquarters were closed, and publishing operations were moved to the old Herald-News headquarters in Passaic. The Evening News building is now used by a Paterson elementary school.
For its new combined paper, MediaNews developed the slogan "FIRST with the news...everyday!" and designed an accompanying rising sun logo. The logo and slogan were printed on signs that were placed in establishments that carried the new Herald & News and also on decal stickers. Those stickers were used to rebrand the papers' street box machines; prior to the merger the Herald-News was sold in yellow machines with blue tops and The News was sold in white machines with navy tops. The decals were simply placed over the papers' old logos where possible. The Herald & News started to phase these machines out in the mid-1990s in favor of white street boxes with the rising sun logo on them. All of the remaining machines were again affixed with new decals after the Herald & News changed its logo again toward the end of the 1990s and were used until the merger with The Record, when new boxes were ordered; the Herald News street boxes are now painted green.
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