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Overview
The Star-Ledger, published online as NJ.com with the Jersey Journal and the South Jersey Times, is one of New Jersey's largest newsrooms and the main paper for Trenton and the state courts. The Record in Bergen County, the Asbury Park Press, the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, the Press of Atlantic City, the Trenton Times, the Daily Record in Morris County, the Courier News, the Home News Tribune and the Burlington County Times cover their regions, and NJ Spotlight News and the New Jersey Monitor cover state government online. The Philadelphia and New York papers cover the counties nearest them.
New Jersey newspapers carry the legal notices state law requires for sheriff's sales, estates and government actions, publish obituaries for 21 counties, and hold court coverage that pairs with the New Jersey Courts public portal.
Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.
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New Jersey Newspapers
Find local and statewide newspaper publications for New Jersey. Access news, sports, classified, entertainment, and archived articles.
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Major New Jersey newspapers and what they cover
The Star-Ledger covers Newark, Essex County, the legislature, the New Jersey Supreme Court and the federal court, with back issues from the 1830s onward in the digital archives. The Record covers Bergen and Passaic counties, the Press covers Monmouth and Ocean counties and the Shore, the Courier-Post covers Camden County, and the Press of Atlantic City covers the casinos and South Jersey. Town weeklies and the county papers carry council minutes, police blotters and the surrogate's court notices that New Jersey counties publish.
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Historic New Jersey newspapers online
The New Jersey State Library in Trenton holds newspaper microfilm for the whole state, and New Jersey titles from the colonial era onward appear in Chronicling America through the New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project at Rutgers University Libraries. The Newark Public Library provides free access to the Star-Ledger archive with a library card and holds a New Jersey newspaper index, and the New Jersey Historical Society holds early Newark titles.
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Legal notices, public notices and obituaries in New Jersey
New Jersey law requires sheriff's sale notices for foreclosures, surrogate's court notices to creditors, name changes, tax sales and county and municipal ordinances and hearings to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, and the New Jersey Press Association collects them in a statewide search. Most papers in New Jersey, daily and weekly, carry obituaries, and the Newark Public Library's index covers older deaths. Court coverage pairs with the New Jersey Courts public access portal for superior and municipal court cases.
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Straight answers
New Jersey Newspaper Directory, questions
What is New Jersey's largest newspaper?
The Star-Ledger, published online as NJ.com with the Jersey Journal and the South Jersey Times, followed by the Record, the Asbury Park Press, the Courier-Post and the Press of Atlantic City.
Where are historic New Jersey newspapers online?
Chronicling America carries New Jersey titles from the colonial era onward through the New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project at Rutgers, and the State Library holds the rest on microfilm.
Where are New Jersey sheriff's sale notices published?
In a newspaper of general circulation in the county, collected in the New Jersey Press Association's statewide public notice search.