Asbury Park Press

Infobox Newspaper
name = Asbury Park Press


caption = The August 9, 2008 front page of the
"Asbury Park Press"
type = Daily newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation = 1879
owners = Gannett Company
publisher = Thomas M. Donovan
editor =
circulation = 145,508 Morning
192,581 Sunday [cite web | title=2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation |publisher=Burrelles"Luce" |url=http://www.burrellesluce.com/top100/2007_Top_100List.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=2007-05-30 |date=2007-03-31]
headquarters = 3601 Highway 66
Neptune, New Jersey 07754
USA
ISSN =
website = [http://app.com/ APP.COM]

The "Asbury Park Press" is the major daily newspaper in Monmouth and Ocean counties of New Jersey and has third largest circulation in the state. [cite web |url=http://www.gannett.com/about/map/ataglance/asburyp.htm |title=About Gannett: Asbury Park Press |accessdate=2007-02-27 |publisher=Gannett Co., Inc. ] Its recent anti-corruption campaign has resulted in a number of new laws and the 2004/2005 ethics reform movement in New Jersey government. Its investigative staff has been awarded some of the highest honors in journalism including the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, the Associated Press Managing Editors' Award for Public Service, and the National Headliner Award for Public Service. Its editorial slant is noticeably conservative in natureFact|date=October 2008 and was the only major newspaper in New Jersey to endorse George W. Bush in the 2004 electionFact|date=October 2008.

The Press was also knownFact|date=October 2008 for many years for its excellent Sunday comic strips. It once carried the full page Prince Valiant by Hal Foster, half page Tarzan and Star Wars by Russ Manning and third of a page Steve Canyon by Milton Caniff. Its comics section is no longer sought after by collectors today.

References

External links

* [http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage Asbury Park Press official site]
* [http://3ringsmedia.com/video_production_broadcast_6.html Commercial for Asbury Park Press]