- The Daily News Tribune
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The Daily News Tribune Type Daily newspaper Format Broadsheet Owner GateHouse Media Publisher Kirk A. Davis Editor Brad Spiegel Founded 1863, as Waltham News Tribune Headquarters 738A Main Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02451
United StatesCirculation 4,931 daily in 2007[1] Official website dailynewstribune.com The Daily News Tribune (formerly called the News-Tribune and the Waltham Evening News) is a five-day (Monday through Friday) afternoon daily newspaper in Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S., covering that city and the neighboring city of Newton.
The Tribune 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 News-Tribune was part of a five-paper chain, Transcript Newspapers Inc., that included the Daily Transcript of Dedham 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]
A 1999 fire destroyed the News-Tribune office at 99 Moody Street, Waltham, but the paper continued to publish, initially settling in CNC's Needham headquarters before returning to a new office in Waltham.[6]
CNC changed the newspaper's name, in 1999, to Daily News Tribune, to emphasize the paper's connections its sister papers.
In 2000, Fidelity sold CNC to the publisher of the Boston Herald.[7] 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.[8]
References
- ^ Audit Bureau of Circulations "e-Circ" data for six months ending March 31, 2007.
- ^ "Employees Fired in Newspaper Strike". The Boston Globe, p. 1, July 26, 1980.
- ^ Fox, Wendy. "Transcript Newspapers Sold for Third Time in 8 Months". The Boston Globe, p. 32, April 23, 1985.
- ^ Adams, Jane Meredith. "Harte-Hanks Acquires Transcript Group". The Boston Globe, March 14, 1986.
- ^ Ackerman, Jerry. "Fidelity Unit Buys 14 Newspapers". The Boston Globe, November 23, 1994.
- ^ Cavaan, Azell Murphy. "Three-Alarm Fire Destroys Waltham Newspaper's Offices". Boston Herald, p. 7, February 21, 1999.
- ^ Jurkowitz, Mark. "Boston Herald to Buy Community Newspapers". The Boston Globe, p. A1, September 29, 2000.
- ^ Gatlin, Greg. "Herald to Sell Suburban Papers". Boston Herald, May 6, 2006.
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Ownership history: Fidelity Investments, 1986–2001 • Herald Media, 2001–2006 • GateHouse Media, since 2006Major 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:- Media in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Newspapers published in Massachusetts
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