MetroWest Daily News
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| MetroWest Daily News | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | broadsheet |
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| Owner | GateHouse Media |
| Publisher | Kirk A. Davis |
| Editor | Richard K. Lodge |
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| Headquarters | 33 New York Avenue, Framingham, Massachusetts 01701 USA |
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| Website: TownOnline.com | |
The MetroWest Daily News is a newspaper that provides local news for the MetroWest region outside Boston, Massachusetts. It is based in Framingham, Massachusetts. It is a member of the GateHouse Media publishing family, as part of Community Newspaper Company.
Between 2001 and mid-2006, the Daily News and Community Newspapers were owned by the Boston Herald. Although the Herald has sold the suburban chain, it has retained, for the time being, reprinting rights to content that appears in Community Newspapers publications.
The current name is the sixth since 1900 for the Daily News. Known at the start of 20th century as the Framingham Evening News, it became simply the Framingham News in 1926 and carried that moniker until 1971 when the South Middlesex Daily News was adopted. Two years later, that name was shortened to the Middlesex News, which held firm until 1998 and then changed to MetroWest Daily News. Originally locally owned, it was purchased by the Harte-Hanks chain of newspapers, which in turn sold it to a subsidiary of Fidelity Investments, which later sold it and nearby suburban newspapers to the Herald.
The term MetroWest was coined and adopted by the newspaper as a means of giving its circulation area more of a shared identity than earlier alternatives - "Greater Framingham" (which many towns in the paper's northern coverage area did not feel they belonged to) and "South Middlesex" (which did not apply to towns the paper covered in Worcester and Norfolk counties). Staff writer Greg Supernovich suggested the name - for which he received dinner for two.
The online edition of the MetroWest Daily News was launched in September 2001. Earlier, the Middlesex News was the first general-circulation paper in the U.S. to establish an Internet presence, a gopher site offering daily headlines and movie and restaurant reviews in 1993. The Middlesex News had gone online even earlier with Fred the Computer in 1987.
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