History
The News was founded in 1873 by Wallace Scudder. The newspaper was operated by the Scudder family for 96 of its 98 years. The grandson of Wallace Scudder, Richard Scudder, worked as the newspaper's publisher from 1952 until 1972.
For years, the paper thrived as a daily and Sunday paper. It had five editorial writers, an editorial cartoonist, a military writer, and an aviation writer. The paper even had a Sunday magazine. However a great deal of the paper's focus was on politics.
In 1970, the paper was sold to Media General. In February 1971 the newsroom voted to go out on strike and walked out in May 1971. The strike lasted almost a full year—not settling until April 1972. It faced increasing competition from the Newark Star-Ledger, and for its final four months, the daily editions of the Newark Evening News were printed on Star-Ledger presses.
The paper folded on August 31, 1972.
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