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factoids

for the six months ending March 31, 2007, accessed November 1, 2007.| circulation_date = 2007Somerville, New Jersey>Somerville, New Jersey 08876 USA| publishing_country = United States| oclc = 14093085weblink}}}}(File:Courier News (2003-12-15).svg|thumb|Logo in 2003)File:19120614 Coal consumption affecting climate - Plainfield Courier News - global warming.jpg|thumb| upright=1.35| This 1912 Courier-News article described the greenhouse effect, focusing on how burning coal creates carbon dioxide that causes climate change.NEWS, Coal Consumption Affecting Climate,weblink Plainfield Courier-News, June 14, 1912, Plainfield, New Jersey, US, 14, Text was earlier (:File:191203 Furnaces of the world - Popular Mechanics - Global warming.jpg|published in Popular Mechanics), March 1912, p. 341.]]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.WEB,weblink About The courier-news. [volume] (Bridgewater [N.J.]) 1961-current, Library of Congress, March 21, 2020, WEB,weblink NJPA Member Directory, New Jersey Press Association, March 23, 2020,

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.(11 August 1972). Chauncey F. Stout, A Jersey Publisher, The New York Times, p. 32

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External links

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