Editing Jersey City, New Jersey (section)

==In media==
===Newspapers & other news outlets===
Jersey City is located in the [[Media in New York City|New York media market]], and most of its daily papers are available for sale or delivery such as ''[[The New York Times]]'' and the ''[[New York Daily News|Daily News]]'', which maintained its extensive publishing and distribution facilities at Liberty Industrial Park from 1993 to 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/04/nyregion/daily-news-to-shift-printing-to-jersey-city.html|title=Daily News to Shift Printing to Jersey City|publisher=The New York Times|date=June 4, 1993|access-date=March 11, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2022/01/11/new-york-daily-news-announces-plan-to-outsource-printing-of-newspaper/|title=New York Daily News announces plan to outsource printing of newspaper|publisher=New York Daily News|date=January 11, 2022|access-date=March 11, 2025}}</ref> As of 2025, Jersey City no longer has a daily print newspaper. The city's former daily newspaper since 1867, ''[[The Jersey Journal]]'', formerly located at its namesake [[Journal Square]], covered Hudson County and was its morning daily before ceasing publication in 2025.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/hudson/2024/10/after-157-years-of-keeping-hudson-county-informed-the-jersey-journal-to-close-in-2025.html|title=After 157 years of keeping Hudson County informed, The Jersey Journal to close in 2025|publisher=The Jersey Journal|date=October 30, 2024|access-date=March 11, 2025}}</ref> The ''[[Hudson Dispatch]]'' merged with the Jersey Journal in 1991.<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/03/nyregion/owners-warn-that-hudson-county-newspaper-could-be-closed.html "Owners Warn That Hudson County Newspaper Could Be Closed"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 3, 2002. Accessed September 5, 2011.</ref> The ''[[Jersey City Reporter]]'' is part of [[The Hudson Reporter]] group of local weeklies and is an online-only news outlet since ceasing physical publication in 2023. The ''[[River View Observer]]'' is another weekly published in the city and distributed throughout the county. Another countywide weekly, ''El Especialito'', also serves the city.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elespecial.com/ |title=El Especial |publisher=El Especial |access-date=June 10, 2010}}</ref> The ''Jersey City Times'' began in 2019 as an online-only news outlet dedicated to in-depth coverage of Jersey City.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jcitytimes.com/about-us/|title=About Us|publisher=Jersey City Times|access-date=March 11, 2025}}</ref> The ''[[Jersey City Independent]]'' was an [[online newspaper]] covering Jersey City and surrounding municipalities. It also published ''JCI Magazine'', a print quarterly magazine.<ref>Germano, Sara. [https://www.cjr.org/news_startups_guide/2011/05/jersey-city-independent.php "Jersey City Independent Eye-opening alternative news for a bedroom community on the Hudson"], ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'', May 18, 2011. Accessed November 13, 2019.</ref>

===Radio===
[[WSNR]] AM 620 is a [[Commercial broadcasting|commercial]] radio station owned by Gregory Davidzon and Sam Katsman and licensed to Jersey City.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fcc.gov/document/rose-city-radio-corporation-wsnr-jersey-city-nj|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|title=Rose City Radio Corporation, WSNR, Jersey City, NJ|date=December 20, 2015 |language=en-US|url-status=live|access-date=October 27, 2023|archive-date=October 28, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20231028003735/https://www.fcc.gov/document/rose-city-radio-corporation-wsnr-jersey-city-nj}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://radiostation.info/am/new-jersey/WSNR/|title=WSNR AM 620|publisher=RadioStation.Info|language=en-US|url-status=live|access-date=October 27, 2023|archive-date=October 28, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20231028003905/https://radiostation.info/am/new-jersey/WSNR/}}</ref>

[[WFMU]] 91.1FM (WMFU 90.1 FM in the [[Hudson Valley]]), the longest-running [[freeform (radio format)|freeform]] radio station in the United States, moved to Jersey City in 1998.<ref>[https://wfmu.org/about/ About], [[WFMU]]. Accessed November 14, 2016. "WFMU-FM is a listener-supported, non-commercial radio station broadcasting at 91.1 Mhz FM in Jersey City, NJ, right across the Hudson from lower Manhattan. It is currently the longest running freeform radio station in the United States. The station also broadcasts to the Hudson Valley and Lower Catskills in New York, Western New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania via its 90.1 signal at WMFU in Mount Hope, NY."</ref>

===Television and film===
Jersey City has a long history with the film and television industry dating back to its early days.

Jersey City has hosted several film festivals over the years. The annual [[Golden Door Film Festival]] has taken place at various venues throughout Jersey City since 2011, including the [[Loew's Jersey Theatre]], and is the city's longest running film festival.<ref>Hortillosa, Summer Dawn. [https://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/2011/10/golden_door_film_festival_to_b.html "Golden Door Film Festival to bring big names, big films to Jersey City; majority of films created by Hudson County people"], ''[[The Jersey Journal]]'', October 7, 2011. Accessed February 28, 2023."Next week, Jersey City will lift its lamp beside the golden door of opportunity for local filmmakers and actors. The Golden Door International Film Festival, which opens on Thursday, will feature more than 40 films."</ref> The Brightside Film Festival has been held at the Brightside Tavern since 2014 and is an annual festival that features [[short films]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://filmfreeway.com/TheBrightsideTavernShortsFest|title=The Brightside Film Festival|access-date=January 31, 2025|website=FilmFreeway}}</ref> The Jersey City Horror Film Festival (JCHFF) began as the Jersey City Popup Film Festival in 2015 and is designed to be a fun and relaxed film festival, offering quality independent films.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://filmfreeway.com/JerseyCityHorrorFilmFestival|title=Jersey City Horror Film Festival|access-date=January 31, 2025|website=FilmFreeway}}</ref> The [[Thomas Edison Film Festival]] (TEFF) began as the "Black Maria Film Festival" in 1981 as a project of the Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium, an independent non-profit organization originally based at the Media Arts Department at New Jersey City University (NJCU) and was held a Hepburn Hall. The consortium has since moved operations to the [[Hoboken Historical Museum]] in neighboring Hoboken and now shows films across New Jersey, the United States and abroad.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/nyregion/in-person-homage-to-edison-for-odd-path-in-film.html|title=IN PERSON; Homage to Edison For Odd Path in Film|first=George|last=James|date=March 23, 2003|newspaper =The New York Times|access-date=January 31, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.njcu.edu/about/news/2018/03/evening-selected-shorts-black-maria-film-festival|title=‘An Evening Of Selected Shorts’ from The Black Maria Film Festival; New Jersey City University|website=www.njcu.edu|access-date=January 31, 2025}}</ref>

The first film studio in the city was built in 1910 in the [[The Heights, Jersey City|Jersey City Heights]] by film production company [[Pathé Exchange]] as an outgrowth of the [[Fort Lee, New Jersey#America's first motion picture industry|birth of the motion picture industry in Fort Lee]] at the turn of the 20th century. The most successful film series produced by the studio was ''[[The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)|The Perils of Pauline]]'' starring [[Pearl White]] in 1914. The term "[[cliffhanger]]" is thought to have originated with the series due to a number of episodes filmed on or around the [[New Jersey Palisades]]. Additionally, the hero or heroine was sometimes hanging from the Palisade cliffs, seemingly with no way out, until the next episode.

The [[Frederick Douglass Film Company]] was a production company established in 1916 in [[Communipaw|Lafayette]] by two prominent residents, Dr. George E. Cannon and Rev. Dr. W.S. Smith of Monumental Baptist Church. Named after the [[African-American]] abolitionist [[Frederick Douglass]], the company was founded to produce films to counter the negativity from anti-African-American films such as ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' (1915), the stereotypical images of Black entertainers in comedic roles and to improve [[race relations]]. The company produced three films, ''[[The Colored American Winning His Suit]]'' (1916), ''The Scapegoat'' (1917) and ''Heroic Negro Soldiers of the World War'' (1919).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://normanstudios.org/nsdrc/project/frederick-douglass-film-company/|title=FREDERICK DOUGLASS FILM COMPANY|website=normanstudios.org|access-date=March 28, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://njcu.libguides.com/majestic|title=The Majestic Theatre|website=njcu.libguides.com|access-date=March 28, 2025}}</ref>

The [[Jersey City Armory]] has been used as a temporary [[film studio]] due to its large floor space and ceiling height for several film projects, including [[Chazz Palminteri]]'s ''[[A Bronx Tale]]'', the [[Faye Dunaway]] thriller ''[[Eyes Of Laura Mars]]'', [[Laura Brannigan]]'s music video ''"Self-Control"'',<ref>{{cite web|title = New Jersey A Studio Center? Temporarily And Permanently!|publisher = New Jersey Television and Movie Commission|url = http://www.njfilm.org/news2.html|access-date = 2011-01-05|archive-date = 2002-07-12|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020712145112/http://www.njfilm.org/news2.html|url-status = live}}</ref> [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[Deconstructing Harry]]'',<ref>{{cite news |last=Kannapell |first=Andrea |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/04/nyregion/getting-big-picture-film-industry-started-here-left-now-it-s-back-state-says.html |title=Getting the Big Picture; The Film Industry Started Here and Left. Now It's Back, and the State Says the Sequel Is Huge. |work=The New York Times |date=1998-10-04 |access-date=2011-01-10 |archive-date=2019-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191219034718/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/04/nyregion/getting-big-picture-film-industry-started-here-left-now-it-s-back-state-says.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Terry Kinney]]'s ''[[Diminished Capacity]]'',<ref>{{cite web|title = Diminished Capacity|url = http://www.jclist.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=14035&forum=6|access-date = 2011-01-05|archive-date = 2011-07-13|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110713093152/http://www.jclist.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=14035&forum=6|url-status = live}}</ref> ''[[A Perfect Murder]]'' by [[Andrew Davis (director)|Andrew Davis]]<ref>{{cite AV media |title = Shooting the Apple|work = A Perfect Murder|publisher = Warner Brothers|year = 1998}}</ref> and  [[Jim Jarmusch]]'s, ''[[Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai]]''.

Parlay Studios is Jersey City's longest serving film studio since it opened in The Heights in 2005. It is now located on the campus of [[Mana Contemporary]] and features over {{convert|80000|sqft|m2}} of space across three soundstages, three studios, production offices and flex and support spaces.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thedigestonline.com/new-jersey/parlay-studios/|title=Parlay Studios Bringing Jersey City Back to Film Roots|website=thedigestonline.com|date=July 18, 2014|access-date=March 6, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.parlaystudios.com/about|title=About|website=parlaystudio.com|access-date=March 6, 2025}}</ref>

In 2021, [[Caven Point Studio|Cinelease Studios-Caven Point]] opened as the largest film studio in the State of New Jersey.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/politics/2021/08/largest-nj-film-studio-opens-for-business-in-jersey-city.html|title=Largest N.J. film studio opens for business in Jersey City|publisher=NJ Advance Media|date=August 8, 2021|access-date=January 30, 2025}}</ref> The studio has three [[soundstages]] totaling {{convert|112400|sqft|m2}} that are {{convert|40|ft|m}} high to the [[space frame|grid]] and {{convert|50|ft|m}} to the ceiling.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2021/artisans/news/cinelease-studios-new-jersey-soundstages-1235051982/|title=Cinelease Studios Expands to New Jersey With Three New Soundstages|first=Robert|last=Marich|date=August 30, 2021|access-date=January 30, 2025}}</ref> In 2023, the Cinelease announced they are planning to double the number of soundstages with a {{convert|76,649|sqft|m2}} expansion that will include three new stages.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nj.com/hudson/2023/08/and-scene-new-jerseys-largest-film-studio-plans-to-get-even-bigger.html|title=‘And ... scene!’ New Jersey’s largest film studio plans to get even bigger|first=Teri |last= West |newspaper =The Jersey Journal|date=August 21, 2023|access-date=January 30, 2025}}</ref>

Jersey City has been the backdrop and location of several movies, television shows and music videos over the years.

* In 1968, the film ''[[Funny Girl (film)|Funny Girl]]'' shot the "[[Don't Rain on My Parade]]" sequence in the [[Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal]] at [[Liberty State Park]] in Jersey City.<ref name="LSP">{{cite web|url=https://jerseydigs.com/liberty-state-park-jersey-city-history|title=Liberty State Park: New Jersey's Gift to America|website=jerseydigs.com|last=Fry|first=Chris|date=July 12, 2017|access-date=January 30, 2025}}</ref>
* In the 1972 film, ''[[The Godfather]]'', the famous scene featuring [[Peter Clemenza]] and Rocco Lampone's famous exchange, "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli", was filmed at the site that became Freedom Way in Liberty State Park in Jersey City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scoutingny.com/the-godfather-the-new-york-city-filming-locations-then-and-now/2/|title=The New York Filming Locations of The Godfather, Then and Now - Scouting NY - Page 2|website=www.ScoutingNY.com|date=26 January 2014|access-date=January 30, 2025}}</ref>
*The 1984 [[superhero film]], ''[[The Toxic Avenger (1984 film)|The Toxic Avenger]]'', features a car chase scene that was filmed throughout Downtown Jersey City.
*The [[music video]] for the 1985 single [[Drop Everything|"Minus Zero"]] by the Polish band [[Lady Pank]], features Jersey City as a backdrop.
*The 1986 [[biopic]], ''[[Sid and Nancy]]'', filmed the movie's final scenes along the waterfront at Exchange Place with the [[Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse]] in the final shot.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jcitytimes.com/lights-camera-jersey-city/|title=Lights! Camera! Jersey City!|website=jcitytimes.com|date=April 9, 2020|access-date=February 5, 2025}}</ref>
*The 1989 film ''[[Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989 film)|Bloodhounds of Broadway]]'', which starred [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]], [[Matt Dillon]], and [[Jennifer Grey]], was partially filmed in Jersey City.<ref name=JerseyDigs>{{cite web|url=https://jerseydigs.com/madonna-bloodhounds-of-broadway-union-city/|title=Union City Building Where Madonna Filmed 'Bloodhounds of Broadway' Hits the Market|author=Fry, Chris|publisher=Jersey Digs|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=October 24, 2023|access-date=October 27, 2023|archive-date=October 27, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20231027223927/https://jerseydigs.com/madonna-bloodhounds-of-broadway-union-city/}}</ref>
*In the 1992 [[Black Hole (The Ren & Stimpy Show)|"Black Hole"]] episode of ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'', Commander Höek and Space Cadet Stimpy get sucked into a black hole and end up on a strange world. In order to escape they need catch a bus that is headed for Jersey City.
*In the 1994 [[historical drama]] ''[[Quiz Show (film)|Quiz Show]]'', the [[Art Deco]] Murdoch Hall at [[The Beacon (Jersey City)|The Beacon]] (former Jersey City Medical Center) portrays [[NBC|NBC's]] [[Rockefeller Center]] as both complex's share many architectural similarities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110932/locations/|title=Quiz Show Filming & production - Filming locations|website=imdb.com|access-date=March 7, 2025}}</ref><ref name="Medical Center"/>
*The 1995 [[comedy film]] ''[[To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar]]'', filmed the opening restaurant scenes at the former landmark Canton Restaurant in [[Journal Square]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/article/the-jersey-journal-jersey-city-landmark/146229424/|date=October 23, 2004|pages=A1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-jersey-journal-canton-open-since-19/146229452/ A4]|title=Jersey City landmark eatery is now history|first=Molly|last=Bloom|newspaper=The Jersey Journal|location=Jersey City, New Jersey|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=March 7, 2025}}</ref>
* In 1997, the film ''[[Men in Black (1997 film)|Men in Black]]'' depicts a scene where [[Agent J]] delivers a newborn alien squid on Morris Pesin Drive in Liberty State Park in Jersey City.<ref name="LSP"/>
* The [[HBO]] [[crime drama]] ''[[The Sopranos]]'' filmed at several locations throughout Jersey City during its run from 1999 to 2007 and featured landmarks such as the [[Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery]] as the Soprano family cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sopranos-locations.com/locations/jersey-city-cemetery/|title=Sopranos filming location - Jersey City Cemetery|website=sopranos-locations.com/|access-date=January 30, 2025}}</ref>
* The 2004 [[animated television series]] ''[[Megas XLR]]'' is set in Jersey City and features mechanic Coop and his best friend Jamie who find a mecha robot from the future at a local junkyard.
*The 2009 [[NBC]] [[medical drama]] ''[[Mercy (TV series)|Mercy]]'' was set and filmed in Jersey City and featured the fictional "Mercy Hospital".
*Jersey City was the filming location for the debut season of the 2012 [[reality television]] series ''[[Snooki & JWoww]]'', a spinoff of ''[[Jersey Shore (TV series)|Jersey Shore]]'' that starred [[Nicole Polizzi|Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi]] and [[Jennifer Farley|Jennifer "JWoww" Farley]] living downtown at a former firehouse at 38 Mercer Street.<ref>[http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2012/02/photos_snooki_jwoww_move_into.html "PHOTOS: Snooki, JWoww move into old Jersey City firehouse for 'Jersey Shore' spinoff"], ''[[The Jersey Journal]]'', February 26, 2012. Accessed November 14, 2016.</ref>
* The final scenes of the 2014 adaptation of ''[[Annie (2014 film)|Annie]]'' were shot at Liberty State Park in Jersey City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://onthesetofnewyork.com/annie2014.html|title=Annie Film Locations|website=onthesetofnewyork.com|access-date=January 30, 2025}}</ref>
*The 2018 [[Netflix series]] ''[[Seven Seconds (TV series)|Seven Seconds]]'', starring [[Regina King]], is set in Jersey City and the bicycle accident at the center of the plot of Season 1 occurs at Liberty State Park.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/hudson/2018/02/netflix_drama_explores_racial_tensions_police_cove.html|title=Netflix drama explores racial unrest, police cover-up in Jersey City|website=nj.com|last=McDonald|first=Terrence T.|date=February 22, 2018|access-date=January 30, 2025}}</ref>
*The 2019 film ''[[Joker (2019 film)|Joker]]'', based on the [[DC Comics]] [[Joker (character)|supervillain]], was filmed in Jersey City while depicting it as [[Gotham City]]. The historic [[Hudson County Courthouse]] is depicted as "Wayne Hall" where Arthur Fleck (Joker) confronts [[Thomas Wayne]] and the historic [[Loew's Jersey Theatre]] is depicted as the theatre where [[Bruce Wayne]] witnesses a criminal [[Origin of Batman|murder his parents]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2019/10/in-new-joker-movie-joaquin-phoenix-is-the-star-but-jersey-gets-second-billing.html|title=In ‘Joker’ movie, Joaquin Phoenix is the star, but Jersey gets second billing|publisher=NJ Advance Media|date=February 6, 2020|access-date=January 30, 2025}}</ref>
*Jersey City is the hometown of the fictional [[Marvel Comics]] superhero [[Kamala Khan]], an incarnation of [[Ms. Marvel]]. The high school she attends, "Coles Academic", is based on [[Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School]] located on Coles Street.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-07 |title=Jersey City school brought to life as 'Coles Academic' in 'Ms. Marvel' |url=https://abc7ny.com/ms-marvel-disney-kamala-kahn-jersey-city/11935528/ |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=ABC7 New York |language=en}}</ref> Jersey City has been featured in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] (MCU) in the 2022 [[Disney+]] miniseries ''[[Ms. Marvel (miniseries)|Ms. Marvel]]'' and in the 2023 film ''[[The Marvels (film)|The Marvels]]''.
*The 2022 biopic ''[[The Greatest Beer Run Ever]]'', produced by Jersey City resident [[Andrew Muscato]], was shot throughout the city, with Van Vorst Park serving as the site of Vietnam War protests and an argument between the main character, Chickie, and his sister.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2022/10/greatest-beer-run-ever-producer-talks-zac-efron-bill-murray-and-filming-a-war-story-in-nj.html|title=‘Greatest Beer Run Ever’ producer talks Zac Efron, Bill Murray and filming a war story in N.J.|publisher=NJ Advance Media|date=October 1, 2022|access-date=March 5, 2025}}</ref>
*The 2024 film, ''[[It Ends with Us (film)|It Ends with Us]]'', was shot on location at the [[Newport, Jersey City|Newport waterfront]], the Newark Avenue pedestrian plaza and the [[Van Vorst Park]] neighborhood with Jersey City portraying [[Boston]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hobokengirl.com/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-it-ends-with-us-jersey-city-new-jersey/|title=Casting Call for It Ends With Us; Filming Next Week in Jersey City|website=hobokengirl.com|date=January 5, 2024|access-date=February 27, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ends-us-filming-locations-jersey-004516097.html|title=‘It Ends With Us’ Filming Locations Make New Jersey Look like Boston|website=yahoo.com|date=August 14, 2024|access-date=February 27, 2025}}</ref>
*The 2024 [[Bob Dylan]] biopic, ''[[A Complete Unknown]]'', was extensively shot at multiple locations and businesses in Jersey City with the Van Vorst Park neighborhood around Jersey Avenue portraying Manhattan's [[West Village]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2024/12/timothee-chalamets-bob-dylan-movie-a-complete-unknown-spent-80m-in-nj-heres-every-film-location.html|title=Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan movie ‘A Complete Unknown’ spent $80M in N.J. — here’s every film location|publisher=NJ Advance Media|date=December 11, 2024|access-date=February 25, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://jerseydigs.com/bob-dylan-movie-filming-jersey-city/|title=Jersey City Street Converted into Retro West Village for Bob Dylan Movie Shoot|website=jerseydigs.com|date=April 18, 2024|access-date=February 25, 2025}}</ref>