The Portsmouth Herald
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| The Portsmouth Herald | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Ottaway Community Newspapers |
| Publisher | John Tabor |
| Editor | Howard Altschiller |
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| Headquarters | 111 Maplewood Avenue, Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03842 USA |
| Circulation | 15,224 daily, 20,936 Sunday in 2006[1] |
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| Website: Seacoastonline.com | |
The Portsmouth Herald (and Herald Sunday) is a seven-day daily newspaper serving Greater Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Its coverage area also includes the municipalities of Greenland, New Castle, Newington and Rye, New Hampshire; and Eliot, Kittery, Kittery Point and South Berwick, Maine.
Together with sister weeklies in New Hampshire and Maine, The Herald is part of Seacoast Media Group, a subsidiary of Ottaway Community Newspapers, itself a division of Dow Jones & Company. It changed owners December 1, 1997,[2] in a newspaper swap in which Thomson Corporation gained The News-Sun of Sun City, Arizona.[3]
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Unlike most New England daily newspapers, The Herald has a higher circulation today than six years ago. Its editors in 2001 credited the newspaper's resurgence with the introduction of the "Wow! factor" -- front-page stories on controversial or sensational topics that appeal to younger readers.[4]
During the tail end of Thomson's ownership of The Herald, it was seen as corporate and out-of-touch with the local community. Several weekly newspapers sprang up to challenge it in Portsmouth and surrounding towns.[5]
[edit] Competition
The Herald's strongest daily competitor is Foster's Daily Democrat in nearby Dover, New Hampshire, and the statewide New Hampshire Union Leader. In the late 1990s, the Foster company launched Foster's Sunday Citizen, to compete with Herald Sunday and the state's largest Sunday paper, the New Hampshire Sunday News. Around the same time, The Herald's Ottaway managers announced they would begin distributing Herald Sunday outside of the daily newspaper's coverage area, into the Exeter and Hampton, New Hampshire areas, where Ottaway owns weeklies.[2]
Years before buying The Herald, Ottaway started a weekly newspaper, the Portsmouth Press, in 1987. For six years, that paper competed with the daily. Its publisher, John Tabor, eventually became publisher of The Herald.[2]
The paper also faces hometown competition from an alternative newsweekly, The New Hampshire Gazette. The original Gazette, the oldest newspaper in New Hampshire, was published as the Sunday edition of The Herald from the 1890s to 1960, when the Sunday paper began carrying the name Herald. In 1989, a descendent of the Gazette's founder began publishing an alternative newspaper under that name.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Seacoast Media Group Contact Info, accessed January 10, 2007.
- ^ a b c Kittredge, Clare. "A News War Takes Shape in Portsmouth". The Boston Globe, November 2, 1997
- ^ Dow Jones News Service, "S-T Parent Trades for N.H. Paper", October 1, 1997. Accessed January 11, 2007.
- ^ Nicholson, Joe. "Portsmouth Herald Does Not Take the Traditional Approach to Reporting," Brandweek, April 30, 2001.
- ^ Robinson, J. Dennis. "July 10." July 10, 1998. Accessed January 11, 2007.
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| Periodicals Published by Dow Jones & Company | ||
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| Financial news | Barron's • Far Eastern Economic Review • SmartMoney • The Wall Street Journal • The Wall Street Journal Asia • The Wall Street Journal Europe • Vedomosti |  |
| Ottaway dailies | Ashland Daily Tidings • Cape Cod Times • Mail Tribune • Pocono Record • The Portsmouth Herald • The Record • The Standard-Times • Times Herald-Record | |
| Ottaway weeklies | Hathaway Publishing • Seacoast Media Group • The Barnstable Patriot • The Inquirer and Mirror | |
