- The Daily News of Newburyport
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The Daily News of Newburyport Type Daily newspaper Format Broadsheet Owner Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Publisher Sheila Smith Founded 1889 Headquarters 23 Liberty Street, Newburyport, Massachusetts 01950 
United StatesCirculation 12,697 daily, 12,348 Saturday in 2007.[1] Official website newburyportnews.com The Daily News of Newburyport is a six-day (Monday through Saturday) evening daily newspaper covering northeastern Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. The newspaper is published by Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, the paper also covers several neighboring cities and towns: Amesbury, Georgetown, Merrimac, Newbury, Rowley, Salisbury and West Newbury, Massachusetts, and Seabrook, New Hampshire.
History
Although it began as an independent daily in 1889, in recent years the paper has been part of a consolidation effort that has seen almost all the North Shore papers bought by one owner, CNHI.
Essex County Newspapers was founded by Philip Saltonstall Weld, a former International Herald Tribune publisher who bought newspapers in Gloucester and Newburyport in 1952, later adding Beverly and Peabody titles. Weld was among the first small-daily publishers to endorse political candidates.[2]
By the 1980s, the chain was owned by Ottaway Community Newspapers, a division of Dow Jones & Company, which also owned the Cape Cod Times and The Standard-Times of New Bedford. Ottaway added The Salem Evening News to its holdings, closing the evening Beverly Times and Peabody Times, in 1995.[3]
The Eagle-Tribune of North Andover, one of Essex County Newspapers' chief competitors, bought the North Shore chain in 2002, paying US$70 million for the Gloucester Daily Times, The Daily News of Newburyport and The Salem Evening News. Eagle-Tribune executives touted the creation of a regional news organization; they also laid off some 45 staffers at the Essex County papers, including the editors of the Newburyport and Salem papers.[4]
The Eagle-Tribune chain, now the dominant daily news organization on the seacoast north of Boston, was itself bought for an undisclosed amount of money by Community Newspaper Holdings, an Alabama company, in 2005.[5]
References
- ^ Audit Bureau of Circulation e-Circ data for the six months ending March 31, 2007, accessed July 8, 2007.
- ^ Palmer, Thomas. "Philip S. Weld Sr., 69, Was Publisher, Set Record in Solo Crossing of Atlantic". Obituary. The Boston Globe, November 7, 1984.
- ^ "R.I. Evening Paper to Close; 3 North of Boston Combining". The Boston Globe, March 24, 1995.
- ^ Gatlin, Greg. "Buyers of N. Shore Papers Ax Top Editors". Boston Herald, May 30, 2002.
- ^ "Eagle-Tribune Chain Sold to Ala. Newspaper Group". The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.), July 28, 2005.
External links
- Gloucester Daily Times Website
- Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company.
- Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
- Newburyport News
Categories:- Daily newspapers published by Community Newspaper Holdings
- Newspapers published in Massachusetts
- Newburyport, Massachusetts
- Publications established in 1889
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