Richner Communications, Inc., founded in 1964, is a multifaceted communications company that publishes more than 28 community-based newspapers, shopping guides, web sites and niche publications in the New York metropolitan area. Richner Communications was founded by Robert and Edith Richner, parents of the current publishers Stuart and Clifford Richner, with the purchase of the Nassau Herald, whic
h serves the Five Towns, and the Rockaway Journal in 1964. In addition to the 15 Herald Newspapers, Garden City-based Richner Communications publishes The Oyster Bay Guardian, The Jewish Star and The Riverdale Press in the Bronx, and their affiliated websites. The company also publishes PrimeTime Xpress, a weekly shopping guide with 10 editions on the South Shore and Xpress Coups, a quarterly coupon book. Richner’s printing division is a leading
commercial printer of newspapers and periodicals in the greater New York area. The Richners are also principal owners of Broad Street Media, which publishes weekly newspapers and shoppers in Baltimore, Philadelphia and New Jersey, and the New Jersey Marketeer, a shopping publication in northern New Jersey.