- The Daily Item (Lynn)
Infobox Newspaper
name = The Daily Item
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type =Daily newspaper
format =Broadsheet
foundation = 1876, as "Lynn City Item"
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owners = Hastings & Sons Publishing Co. Inc.
publisher = Peter Hastings Gamage
editor = Henry J. Collins
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circulation = 16,100 daily in 2007. [Self-reported figure from [http://www.itemlive.com/content/current/advertise/retail_rates.pdf The Daily Item Rate Card: Insert Target Market Coverage] , accessedJuly 8 ,2007 .]
headquarters = 38 Exchange Street,Lynn, Massachusetts 01901 USA
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website = [http://www.itemlive.com itemlive.com]"The Daily Item" is a six-day (Monday through Saturday) morning
daily newspaper published inLynn, Massachusetts ,United States . The newspaper has been locally owned by Hastings & Sons Publishing since converting to daily publication in 1877.In addition to its home city, "The Daily Item" covers the Massachusetts North Shore cities and towns of Nahant, Saugus, Swampscott, Peabody, Revere, Lynnfield, Marblehead, and circulates in several adjacent towns.
History
Founded as the weekly "Lynn City Item" in 1876, the paper's publisher, Horace N. Hastings, began the "Daily Evening Item"
December 8 ,1877 . [ [http://www.itemlive.com/about_us/ Itemlive.com: About Us] , accessedJuly 8 ,2007 .] The weekly paper continued publishing until 1913.It also also inspired a follower: when the Coulter family in
Clinton, Massachusetts , started a daily newspaper in 1893, they named it the "Daily Item" in homage to the Lynn paper, whose founder Horace Hastings was born in Clinton. The Clinton paper no longer publishes daily but does print a twice-weekly called "The Item". [Fitzsimmons, Karen. "Item Marks 100 Years". "Telegram & Gazette" (Worcester, Mass.)July 27 ,1993 .]Peter Hastings Gamage, the current publisher in Lynn, is the fifth generation of his family to own and run "The Daily Item". His father, Peter Gamage, retired as president of the company in 1997. His great-grandfather, Charles H. Hastings, was one of the "sons" in the company name Hastings & Sons Publishing Company. ["Peter Gamage, Was Publisher of Daily Item". Obituary. "The Boston Globe",
December 5 ,2000 .]Competition
By 1996, the "Daily Evening Item" was the last family-owned newspaper on the North Shore, its chief competitor, "The Salem Evening News", having been bought the year before by Essex County Newspapers, part of the Ottaway division of
Dow Jones & Company , which already published four other dailies up the coast. "Item" Publisher Brian Thayer told employees the paper was "fac [ing] bankruptcy or failure".Convey, Eric. "Lynn Daily Item Fights for Its Life". "Boston Herald",January 16 ,1996 .]The Gamage family hired a new publisher, B.J. Frazier, and cut employee wages. Four years later, Frazier changed the paper's name to "The Daily Item", introduced a morning edition and announced an agreement with Essex County Newspapers to print the Lynn paper on their presses. "The Daily Item" circulation at the time was little over 20,000.McCabe, Kathy. "New-Look Daily Item Set for Unveiling". "The Boston Globe",
October 29 ,2000 .]Contrary to reports in 1996 that the newspaper might be sold, possibly to Essex County Newspapers, Frazier in 2000 said the Beverly-based publisher would be treated as "a commercial printing company", not "a potential merger. ... "The Daily Item" is going to remain fully independent."
References
External links
* [http://www.itemlive.com Itemlive, Website of "The Daily Item"] .
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