The Star-Ledger: Did you go digital or abandon the paper?
Has the Star-Ledger website improved since they went all-digital? I never liked it when we were subscribers, and I cancelled our subscription when they announced they weren't providing a physical copy.
How is the quality of coverage of New Jersey and local news? My impression is that the content is mostly from the Newhouse family parent corporation.
Digital. Funny, I like the paper (as well as books) in hand, especially given how much time we already spend on line, but there is a generational shift afoot. My adult children, including one of whom is a journalist at a major newspaper, are all digital with papers and mags.
I don't like physical newspapers (smell, feel, ink on my hands) so I have been subscribing to the digital version. Just got notice yesterday that my $100 a year subscription is increasing to $155. I have to decide whether I am going to continue to subscribe.
I went all digital a couple of years ago, and dropped the paper when I had a billing issue. The focus on dining reviews and other soft entertainment news was leaving me cold as they disinvested from state and local news. I stayed longer than most, but the value proposition for me really declined.
The online Ledger is not as much fun as the paper version, but it is okay. I like the state and local news.
State news consists of issues and a lot of local blurbs about who-killed-who.
I went digital at least a decade ago. I'd download the pdf version to my iPad before I got on the train.
But the coverage of state news and the slashing of the sports staff was the last straw for me and I canceled my subscription three or four years ago.
Has it gotten any better since they discontinued print?
Btw-- at one time the S-L had two of the best TV writers ever on staff at the same time. Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall.
Maybe not that important to everyone, but for someone like me working in media, it was great. It was something of a point of pride for me to tell people in LA or NYC that the best TV writers around worked at our local NJ paper 
ml1 said:
I went digital at least a decade ago. I'd download the pdf version to my iPad before I got on the train.
But the coverage of state news and the slashing of the sports staff was the last straw for me and I canceled my subscription three or four years ago.
Has it gotten any better since they discontinued print?
In fairness to the Ledger, I looked at this morning's edition. In addition to the usual stuff about who got killed on highways and byways of N.J. --
There were 12 articles of several paragraphs that pertained to New Jersey. These included the need for road repair on a section of RT 80, near The Gap. A brief bio of Sharpe James. An article about the Ice detention center and others.
Clearly I miss informative articles in the NYT since I read the Ledger instead. Lots of good posts on MOL come from NYT articles.
So other sources of news are needed to understand national and international issues. I wonder how what and how many MOL posters really do some checking on multiple sources of info. Also, many MOL posters have educational or professional knowledge of some of the issues. I tend to post on issues that I have some educational, personal, and professional knowledge of.
Formerlyjerseyjack said:
It took a week or two before I got used to it. The screen type enlarger is a bit cumbersome. The login takes two steps. But those may be because of my geriatric, non-tech ability.
I enjoy the added content, including comics that I haven't seen since I was a 'ute. -- Nancy, Gasoline Alley and such.
I do miss getting up in the morning and going outside to search for where in the tall grass the paper landed and bringing it inside. In winter, that was a brisk, fresh start to a morning. I also miss holding a paper in my hand and a cup of coffee in the other.
Digital, but I am now no longer a daily reader
rcarter31 said:
Is everyone else paying $49.95 a month for Digital Only?
Just for comparison’s sake, my digital-only subscription to The Philadelphia Inquirer is $36 a month.
No longer a subscriber. IMO it turned into a news aggregate paper with little local news, except for sports.
I miss the letters to the editor, local news and finally decided I hate the online version. Quite a few of their articles were being repeated.
I now get NJ news for free (nj.com) with my Apple News subscription
It took a week or two before I got used to it. The screen type enlarger is a bit cumbersome. The login takes two steps. But those may be because of my geriatric, non-tech ability.
I enjoy the added content, including comics that I haven't seen since I was a 'ute. -- Nancy, Gasoline Alley and such.
I do miss getting up in the morning and going outside to search for where in the tall grass the paper landed and bringing it inside. In winter, that was a brisk, fresh start to a morning. I also miss holding a paper in my hand and a cup of coffee in the other.