As Barry's real estate holdings in Hudson County grew throughout the 1980s, the organization bought a chain of local newspapers and consolidated them into a coordinated weekly paper group.

In addition to articles written by the reporting staff, the paper's letters-to-the-editor page spawned a book of letters, Yuppies Invade My House at Dinnertime, in 1987.

[5] In 1999, with the real estate market becoming even busier, Barry no longer had time to dedicate to the newspapers, and sold his majority share in the company to Malato and Unger.

[7] In early June 2016, after 33 years in Hoboken, the paper moved its main office to 447 Broadway in Bayonne, three blocks from the 22nd Street Light Rail station.

Among the reasons Malato cited for the move was the amount of unused space at the previous Hoboken location, such as the large darkroom that became obsolete since the staff's adoption of digital photography around 2000.

[12] The closure affected both the print and online versions of the publications, according to reporter Daniel Israel, a three-year veteran of the chain, in a tweet posted on January 20, the staff's final day at work.

[13][14][15] In February 2023, Newspaper Media Group sold the Hudson Reporter's web domain to an undisclosed buyer and the new owners began publishing articles to the site.

Former staff reporters accused the outlet of posting articles written by Generative AI with bylines from people who don't exist.