Community Newspaper Company

Community Newspaper Company
Community Newspaper Co.
Type Division of publicly held company
Industry Publishing
Founded January 1991
Headquarters 254 Second Avenue, Needham, Massachusetts 02494
United States
Area served Eastern Massachusetts
Products Daily and weekly newspapers
Parent GateHouse Media
Divisions Metro, North, Northwest, South, West
Website wickedlocal.com

Community Newspaper Company, a subsidiary of GateHouse Media, is a newspaper publisher in eastern Massachusetts. It was founded in 1991 as a holding company for several suburban publishers bought by Fidelity Investments; in 2001, Fidelity sold it to the Boston Herald; in 2006, the massive chain—New England's largest publisher of weeklies—was purchased by, and immediately became the largest single component of, GateHouse Media.

Holdings

CNC's flagship publication is The MetroWest Daily News, based in Framingham, Massachusetts. Three other Daily News papers in other Boston suburbs round out CNC's daily holdings.

Since mid-2006, when CNC and two of its daily competitors were bought by GateHouse Media, CNC dailies and weeklies have been working closely with The Enterprise in Brockton and The Patriot Ledger in Quincy. More recently, the chain has forged ties with The Herald News of Fall River and the Taunton Daily Gazette, also GateHouse acquisitions. These four dailies have retained their own editorial hierarchy, however, and are not considered part of Community Newspaper Company.

Weeklies

Main article: List of Community Newspaper Company weeklies

CNC publishes more than 100 weeklies, semiweeklies and monthly publications. Each publication is classified in one of five semi-autonomous units, each with its own editor-in-chief, covering distinct geographic areas of eastern Massachusetts and named for their location with respect to Boston.

The West Unit includes oversight over all four daily newspapers, in addition to most of the CNC weeklies that complement them; the South Unit includes several weeklies that compete with the other four GateHouse Massachusetts dailies.

External links


v · Fidelity Investments, 1986–2001   •   Herald Media, 2001–2006   •   GateHouse Media, since 2006
Other GateHouse Media Massachusetts daily newspapers:    The Enterprise   •   The Herald News   •   The Patriot Ledger   •   Taunton Daily Gazette

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