The Daily News Transcript

The Daily News Transcript

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	GateHouse Media
Publisher	Kirk A. Davis
Editor	Richard K. Lodge
Founded	1870, as Dedham Transcript
Headquarters	1091 Washington Street, Norwood, Massachusetts 02062  United States
Circulation	3,947 daily in 2007[1]
Official website	dailynewstranscript.com

The Daily News Transcript (formerly known as the Neponset Valley Daily News) is a five-day (Monday through Friday) afternoon daily newspaper in Norwood, Massachusetts, U.S., covering the Neponset Valley of Norfolk County, Massachusetts. The Transcript was originally published in Dedham, which is still part of its coverage area, along with Walpole and Westwood.

The Transcript is managed and printed by The MetroWest Daily News. Both are owned by Community Newspaper Company, a division of GateHouse Media.

History

By 1980, the Transcript -- then called the Daily Transcript -- was the flagship of a five-paper chain, Transcript Newspapers Inc., that included the News-Tribune of Waltham and three weekly newspapers in West Roxbury-Roslindale (neighborhoods of Boston), Newton and Needham (suburbs west of Boston).^[2]

Between August 1984 and March 1986, the company was sold four times: to Gillett Communications in 1984; then to Thomson Newspapers that December; in April 1985 to William Dean Singleton (head of MediaNews Group)^[3] -- and eventually, in 1986, to Harte-Hanks, which combined it with the Middlesex News to form News-Transcript Group.^[4]

News-Transcript, a chain of three dailies and several weekly newspapers stretching from Boston west to Framingham, Massachusetts, remained a Harte-Hanks property until 1994, when the company continued its divestment of print properties by selling the Massachusetts papers to Fidelity Investments' Community Newspaper Company, already the publisher of dozens of weeklies in the Boston suburbs.^[5]

CNC changed the newspaper's name, in 1999, to Neponset Valley Daily News, to emphasize the paper's connections with its home region and its sister papers. This name was changed again shortly after, to Daily News Transcript.

In 2000, Fidelity sold CNC to the publisher of the Boston Herald.^[6] The new owner instituted a content-sharing arrangement between CNC and the Herald, resulting in a regular stream of Daily News stories appearing in the Boston newspaper.

That arrangement continued even after the Herald sold CNC to Liberty Group Publishing (later renamed GateHouse Media) in 2006.^[7][8]

On Aug. 20, 2009, GateHouse Media announced the Daily News Transcript would be ending publication in October 2009. The company plans to continue to cover the towns in the Transcript's coverage area with weekly papers, including a new one called the Dedham Transcript.^[9]

The last edition of the Daily News Transcript was published on September 25, 2009.^[10][11][12]

References

1. ^ Audit Bureau of Circulations "e-Circ" data for six months ending March 31, 2007.
2. ^ "[nl.newsbank.com/cgi-bin/ngate/BG?ext_docid=0EB974732BABEAC2&ext_hed=EMPLOYEES%20FIRED%20IN%20NEWSPAPER%20STRIKE&ext_theme=bg&pubcode=BG Employees Fired in Newspaper Strike]". The Boston Globe, p. 1, July 26, 1980.
3. ^ Fox, Wendy. "[nl.newsbank.com/cgi-bin/ngate/BG?ext_docid=0EADEAE521380531&ext_hed=TRANSCRIPT%20NEWSPAPERS%20SOLD%20FOR%20THIRD%20TIME%20IN%208%20MONTHS&ext_theme=bg&pubcode=BG Transcript Newspapers Sold for Third Time in 8 Months]". The Boston Globe, p. 32, April 23, 1985.
4. ^ Adams, Jane Meredith. "[nl.newsbank.com/cgi-bin/ngate/BG?ext_docid=0EADED6DC64C2FAD&ext_hed=HARTE-HANKS%20ACQUIRES%20TRANSCRIPT%20GROUP&ext_theme=bg&pubcode=BG Harte-Hanks Acquires Transcript Group]". The Boston Globe, March 14, 1986.
5. ^ Ackerman, Jerry. "[nl.newsbank.com/cgi-bin/ngate/BG?ext_docid=0EADE11656BE5A21&ext_hed=FIDELITY%20UNIT%20BUYS%2014%20NEWSPAPERS&ext_theme=bg&pubcode=BG Fidelity Unit Buys 14 Newspapers]". The Boston Globe, November 23, 1994.
6. ^ Jurkowitz, Mark. "[nl.newsbank.com/cgi-bin/ngate/BG?ext_docid=0EADDE76491F67F6&ext_hed=BOSTON%20HERALD%20TO%20BUY%20COMMUNITY%20NEWSPAPERS&ext_theme=bg&pubcode=BG Boston Herald to Buy Community Newspapers]". The Boston Globe, p. A1, September 29, 2000.
7. ^ Gatlin, Greg. "[pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/1032878251.html?dids=1032878251:1032878251&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=May+6%2C+2006&author=GREG+GATLIN&pub=Boston+Herald&edition=&startpage=002&desc=Herald+to+sell+suburban+papers%3B+Purcell+keeps+Hub+tabloid%27s+reins Herald to sell suburban papers; Purcell keeps Hub tabloid's reins]". Boston Herald, May 6, 2006.
8. ^ Steve Bailey; Robert Gavin (May 6, 2006). "Herald's owner to sell suburban papers; deal is put at $225m". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/05/06/heralds_owner_to_sell_suburban_papers_deal_is_put_at_225m/. Retrieved October 7, 2009. 
9. ^ Colby, Edward B. "Transcript changing to weekly format". Daily News Transcript, August 20, 2009.
10. ^ Cook, Matt (September 25, 2009). "Daily News Transcript leaves legacy of local coverage". Daily News Transcript. http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/news/x1800826340/Daily-News-Transcript-leaves-legacy-of-local-coverage. Retrieved October 7, 2009. 
11. ^ Colby, Edward B. (September 25, 2009). "Weeklies to pick up where daily left off". Daily News Transcript. http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/news/x1800826338/Weeklies-to-pick-up-where-daily-left-off. Retrieved October 7, 2009. 
12. ^ Fargo, Tom (September 25, 2009). "Last call for Transcript Land". Daily News Transcript. http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/sports/x1991986055/Last-call-for-the-Transcript-Land. Retrieved October 7, 2009. 

External links

• The Daily News Transcript
• Community Newspaper Company
• GateHouse Media