"The Hudson Reporter" was founded in 1983 by Hoboken-based developer Joseph Barry, founder of the development company Applied Housing, who bought the weekly "Hoboken Pictorial" and its group of local newspapers. Its first newspaper was "The Hoboken Reporter", which Barry published out of a small building in downtown Hoboken. It subsequently moved to a basement office on 14th Street. 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 1995 the chain moved to a large, historic bank building at 1400 Washington Street, across the street from the basement office. Lucha Malato joined the company in 1983 and David Unger in 1985. both becoming his minority partners. In 1987, the chain began "The Secaucus Reporter". 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.