From the Real Deal:
As print publications dwindle, real estate struggles to meet public notice requirements
New Jersey’s largest newspaper, the Star-Ledger, announced last month it would cease print editions beginning early next year. It marks a loss not just for Jersey residents who prefer a hard copy of their paper, but for real estate developers who need it for legal reasons.
Real estate developers are required to publish notices of the planning and zoning process for projects in many states and municipalities across the country, an increasingly difficult mandate to meet as daily print publications close shop, ROI NJ reported.
Land use and zoning attorney Kathryn Razin said there will need to be changes to where developers and municipalities are required to publish public notices in the years to come, and further print shutdowns will put pressure on these legal requirements.
“For now, you have to be diligent to make sure that when that publication you’re providing a notice is still going to be in print,” she told the outlet. “You also have to double check that the municipality hasn’t designated a new ‘official newspaper.’”
The faltering availability of print publications for these purposes may also precipitate discussion of whether these public notice mandates are outdated or need amending, she said.
“I think this has raised discussions on that statutory requirement, and whether we should be allowing a newspaper’s website to satisfy these requirements in lieu of a print publication,” she told the outlet. “From an applicant’s standpoint, this has been a long-standing requirement and could be seen as antiquated and in need of an update, alongside other statutory requirements.”
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re: “outdated”
WSJ has 649,000 print subscribers, that is the only paper I still see being delivered. We stopped getting the print version about 10 years ago, my neighbor still gets his. That must be some route for the paperboy.
The Washington Post: Has a print circulation of 135,980.
Los Angeles Times: Has a print circulation of 118,760
NY Post: Has a print circulation of 131,000
BTW the last statistic on the Star Ledger I could find was about 35,000 printed daily.
This online local news was perhaps too early. Patch.com
https://patch.com/new-jersey/across-nj
Founded by an ex-google president in 2007 for hyper local news, then purchased by AOL 2 years later and then spun off in 2013. But for all of that hard work “reporting” today they only get $20 million in annual ad revenue… The money still flows mainly to google and Facebook and the legacy media.
The statutory requirements for printed third-party public notice requirements still cost something like 50 cents a line printed.. I doubt the online media even wants the business.
What is going to happen is every municipality, county and the state will post them in their website.
However, I have a sweet spot in my heart for newspapers. As I a newspaper delivery boy for the Hudson Dispatch in the morning and Jersey Journal in the afternoon. I had the pleasure of seen headlines like “Menendez witness against Musto”, “Musto convicted”, “Lennon shot dead”.
In fact I swear, I probably met Fat Eddie’s grandma in the Pall Mall + cheap booze + 5 cats blend classic smell of the trailer park in 51st & Tonnelle. She was always late paying and that moo moo. It was tough collecting from her… https://youtu.be/FsxJfcFVnpo?si=kJmTgqnuqu4kf1RB
51st & Tonnelle… North Bergen, bro. Eddie’s grandma was in God’s country, Jersey City. I’ll tell you though, those little chickies that lived off of Bove (Bogie) Terrace really loved to make out! lol.
Ten 428. Notable if we stay through 430.