Content on NJ.com is provided by NJ Advance Media, a company launched in June 2014 to provide content, sales and marketing services to NJ.com and Advance's
New Jersey–based newspapers, including
The Star-Ledger,
The Times of
Trenton, the
South Jersey Times,
The Hunterdon County Democrat,
The Star-Gazette,
The Warren Reporter,
The Suburban News,
Hoboken Now,
Ledger Local,
Ledger Somerset Observer,
The Star-Gazette, and
The Washington Township Times. It is owned by Advance Local, an organization that operates ten local news and information sites in the United States. The site was ranked by
Alexa as 2,712th worldwide and 661st in the U.S. in May 2016. NJ.com's news reports have been quoted by other news publications such as the
New York Daily News, the
Chicago Tribune,
The Washington Post. In 2019, NJ Advance Media's Steve Politi was named the nation's top sports columnist by the Associated Press Sports Editors. NJ.com is part of a general trend away from printed newspapers towards digital content. A report in
USA Today in 2012 suggested that many newspaper readers were moving to digital websites such as NJ.com for local news. Advance Publications is owned by the Newhouse family. According to a report in 2014, NJ.com was laying off some employees, although there were reports that staffing losses were being offset by hiring at NJ Advance Media. ==See also==