Both papers are owned by Gannett Company, which purchased Herald News parent North Jersey Media Group in 2016.
MediaNews continued to operate both The News and the Herald-News out of their respective plants in Paterson and Passaic while beginning to plan a merger.
Then, in September, MediaNews finalized the merger of the daily editions and the paper became known as The North Jersey Herald & News.
In 2000, North Jersey Media Group was formed as a holding company for the Borgs' assets, including the Herald News.
North Jersey Media Group set up a new headquarters in what is now Woodland Park (at the time, the municipality was still known as West Paterson) and moved the entire operation of the Herald News there.
The two papers have operated largely as a single entity, featuring mostly the same stories but laid out in different areas; for instance, an article might be on the front page of The Record but be found somewhere inside the main section of the Herald News.