Courier News

For the Chicago newspaper, see Newspapers of the Chicago metropolitan area. For Crestline Courier-News, see List of newspapers in California. For the liberal news agency, see Courier Newsroom.

See also: List of newspapers in New Jersey

The Courier News is a daily newspaper headquartered in Somerville, New Jersey, that serves Somerset County and other areas of Central Jersey. The paper has been owned by Gannett since 1927.^[3][4][5]

Courier News

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Gannett
Editor	Paul C. Grzella, general manager
Founded	1884 (as The Evening News)
Language	American English
Headquarters	92 E Main Street, Somerville, New Jersey 08876 USA
Country	United States
Circulation	1,337 (as of 2024)[1]
OCLC number	14093085
Website	mycentraljersey.com
Media of the United States List of newspapers

Logo in 2003

This 1912 Courier-News article described the greenhouse effect, focusing on how burning coal creates carbon dioxide that causes climate change.^[2]

Notable employees

• John Curley, former president, chairman and CEO of Gannett Co., Inc, the first editor of USA Today, chairman of the Newspaper Association of America, and a member of the Gannett Board of Directors from 1983 to 2001. His newspaper career spanned 30 years with Gannett and including publisher of the Courier-News. The sports journalism department at Penn State is named in his honor.
• Tom Curley, former president and chief executive officer of the Associated Press. Curley is also a former president, publisher, and one of the co-creators of USA Today. He was publisher of the Courier-News from 1983 until 1985.
• Guy Sterling, retired journalist and currently author of several books and historian in Newark, New Jersey.
• Chauncey F. Stout (d. 1972) joined the paper in 1905 as circulation manager, and later served as publisher from 1927 until his retirement in 1957.^[3]