Straus News Employee Directory
Newspaper PublishingNew York, United States51-200 Employees
Straus News is a mid-sized regional newspaper publisher based in Chester, New York. It operates 17 local weekly newspapers and associated websites across contiguous towns in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, along with Dirt magazine covering the local green scene. The publication footprint spans Manhattan and Orange County in New York, Sussex and Passaic Counties in New Jersey, and Pike County in Pennsylvania, serving communities with locally focused reporting on education, infrastructure, and daily life. The company emphasizes rigorous local reporting while highlighting neighborhood achievements, and its publications reach more than 150,000 homes each week. Its portfolio includes newspapers such as The Warwick Advertiser, The Chronicle, and The Pike County Courier, among others serving communities in the region. The group has earned recognition for its reporting and editorial work, including a first-place award from the Suburban Newspaper Association for an in-depth series on heroin addiction in Sussex County and a National Education Writers Award for a piece about a middle school principal's home visit.