1. As the Newark News disappeared from the New Jersey scene, the New York Times and the New York Daily News moved into the state with special New Jersey editions and stationed fulltime staff in Trenton to cover Statehouse happenings. John McLoughlin, one of the Daily News's savviest newsmen on the Trenton beat, eventually jumped over to the Star-Ledger. Newark News Statehouse reporter Joe Sullivan continued working in Trenton for the New York Times.