USA TODAY/AP: The owners of The Star-Ledger plan to close New Jersey’s largest newspaper by year’s end if its production unions don’t make concessions in contract negotiations, the publisher said Wednesday.
In a letter to staff, publisher Richard Vezza said the company felt “pushed into a corner” by the unions, whose contracts expire in July. Vezza said the unions have until Sept. 27 to make compromises or else the paper will shut down…
The paper’s website, nj.com, is owned by a separate company and will continue to publish “no matter what happens with the Ledger,” Vezza said… (more)
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