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Community Newspaper Co. Type Division of publicly held company Industry Publishing Founded January 1991 Headquarters 254 Second Avenue, Needham, Massachusetts 02494
United StatesArea 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
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.
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Major acquisitions: Alta Group Newspapers • Bay State Newspaper Company • Beacon Communications Corporation (and Enterprise-Sun) • Cape Cod Publishing Company • Community Weeklies • Mariner Group (from Capital Cities/ABC) • Memorial Press Group • News-Transcript Group (from Harte-Hanks) • Norfolk Newspaper Company • North Shore Weeklies • Suburban World Newspapers • Tab CommunicationsCNC newspapers: The Daily News Transcript • The Daily News Tribune • The MetroWest Daily News • The Milford Daily News • CNC WeekliesOther GateHouse Media Massachusetts daily newspapers: The Enterprise • The Herald News • The Patriot Ledger • Taunton Daily GazetteCategories:- Publishing companies established in 1991
- Companies based in Massachusetts
- Newspaper companies of the United States
- Newspapers published in Massachusetts
- Media in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
- GateHouse Media
- Hyperlocal in Massachusetts
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