Worrall Community Newspapers is a chain of weekly papers covering Union and Essex counties. The patriarch of the company, Walter Worrall, bought his first newspaper, the News Record, in 1968. Under his and later his children's stewardship, the chain grew to encompass more than a dozen publications in Essex and Union counties.
The News Record, which covers Maplewood and South Orange, has its offices in the same building. The chain includes the following papers:
Belleville Post, The Nutley Journal, East Orange Record, Orange Transcript, The Glen Ridge Paper, Union County Local Source, The Independent Press of Bloomfield, the Vailsburg Leader, Irvington Herald, West Orange Chronicle, News Record of Maplewood & South Orange.