Skolnick lands AD job

[Hens79]

The coverage UD would get would be negligible since the paper's readership continues to sink like a stone.

It's not endemic to the NJ, sadly. The decline in traditional media is due to a multitude of factors and both the corporations and consumers bear responsibility. The print media conglomerates sacrifice putting out quality products for shareholder value, while consumers demand quality coverage but expect it to be free or close to it.

Sad because the value of the NJ and companies like it remains in local coverage. The NJ and its readership would be better served if the company focused squarely on blanketing New Castle County to Dover--and that includes sports teams (HS, college, and minor league)-- and leaving national coverage to big outlets who do it better.

Gannett/GateHouse Media are uniquely bad with their newsroom layoffs, reduction of local reporting, and centralization of editing and layout. Wilmington-region consumers would be much better served if Gannett spun off the NJ/Delawareonline to a smaller operator.

This is a solid suggestion...there is a void to be filled. Just need to find a way to pay for such an adventure.

Gannett gobbled up TNJ and have done their best to make it into a USA Today rag with only a couple articles involving local news.

Several small organizations have traditionally filled that, "local news" niche (Newark Post, for example)...and a few new NGO backed orgs are trying to fill that niche (but several bring in a political slant).

Newark has it's Post (still a paper version, but also on-line) (local advertising is combined with a Chesapeake area version of the paper) and also The Review (UD supported)...and both do a decent job of providing some insight into the local happenings. But there isn't a paper that regularly does any deep investigative dives into local, Delaware-centered stories.

Miss those days.

Could the NJ, do better at covering “local”? Sure. But if you really read it everyday, local is surely the focus. It just is. Sure they have AP, Reuters and USA Today articles about big national news, the stuff that seem to happen every second of everyday nowadays. So it makes sense to include that stuff. But the NJ covers all kinds of local stuff including the State Legislature and laws passed and their impacts including a right to die bill. They cover economic development very well including data centers They had very in-depth coverage of all the things related to a wind farm off Sussex county. They have been covering the local protests as part of the nationwide protests. And they do a great job with high school sports. And Tres does a very nice job with UD sports. But I get it there are folks who don’t like “how” stuff is covered. But that isn’t the same as saying they don’t cover local.

Also, the NJ is the paper for the whole state so just covering New Castle County to Dover is pretty much a nonstarter. Plus stuff happening Sussex County.

Finally, I don’t like Gannett either. But I think the NJ is doing a decent job in a tough environment.