US newspaper popularized by 'The Sopranos' to cease printing

The Jersey Journal building is pictured in Jersey city, New Jersey on January 30, 2025.
"The Star Ledger," the newspaper of the cult series "The Sopranos," will only appear on the internet; its neighbor.[AFP]

Two longstanding US city newspapers, including one immortalized in "The Sopranos," will vanish from newsstands leaving Jersey City without printed news as the media struggles against headwinds nationwide.

Across the river from New York, the rapid demise of New Jersey's Star-Ledger -- read by fictional mob boss Tony Soprano -- and The Jersey Journal has left locals without a physical paper and some journalists, paperboys and printers without jobs.