In 1970, the paper was sold to Media General . In February 1971 the newsroom, which had never been (union) organized, voted to go out on strike. They walked out in May 1971. The strike lasted almost a full year -- not settling until April 1972. For the next four months, until its end, the daily editions of the Newark Evening News were printed on Star-Ledger presses.
Since its demise, the Newark Public Library acquired the paper's morgue, including ancillary materials (reporters’ notes, etc.), and has undertaken a major preservation project.
- Howard Garis , reporter, who created the Uncle Wiggily character as a News reporter. His Uncle Wiggily books later sold in the millions, and the Wiggily character appeared daily in the News for nearly four decades. He also wrote the first 32 volumes in the '' Tom Swift '', series, which he wrote under the pen name of Victor Appleton.
- Lillian McNamara (Garis). The first female reporter on the News (later married a fellow News reporter, Howard Garis). She helped launch the ''Bobbsey Twins'' series and wrote some of the early volumes.
- Richard Reeves , writer for the News from 1963 to 1965. Later he spent one year at the New York Herald Tribune and then the New York Times as Chief Political Correspondent. His best-selling books included "President Kennedy: Profile of Power" (1993), and President Nixon: Alone in the White House" (2001). He currently is a syndicated columnist and lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
- Arthur Sylvester, who headed the News bureau in Washington, D. C.. In 1960 he joined the Kennedy administration as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs.
- George Oslin, leading reporter. He later became Public Relations head of Western Union, and in 1933 invented the Singing Telegram.
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