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HISTORICAL FACTS: Us newspaper popularized by the sopranos to cease printing | History Defined

The newspaper, unfolded by mob boss Tony Soprano in the iconic New Jersey mafia series, won the coveted Pulitzer Prize in 2005 (Credit: 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.

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