End of a era. Farewell Newark Star Ledger!

[Gerry Zagorski]

Originally Posted by Dclark2

Papers like the home news and star ledger were good at their time but the papers changed their priorties and thats why i no longer buy those papers. They use to have fishing and hunting info but thats a thing of past. I love the NJFISHING.com and visit it daily. Its to bad they don't have a hunting WEB similar to that site.....

Thanks D... We happened to be at the right place at the right time when technology started to shift the model from print to online and had a lot of readers follow that shift. Problem is the papers didn't shift and their model was doomed because of the excess capital and overhead needed to sustain it. The paper got smaller, circulation dropped and it was a downward spiral.

I think the most profound change this and other sites like it, compared to papers is we provided a public sandbox for people to play and post their own content, opinions, have conversations which created a community.

Like any sandbox, there were some good kids and bad kids but if you did it right and held the community to a higher standard, the bad kids were forced out.

I'd like to think, at least around here, we try and focus on the quality of people who post, not quantity. In the the long haul, I think that's the right way to build a friendly sandbox and community.