Concord Monitor

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Concord Monitor
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner Newspapers of New England
Publisher Geordie Wilson
Editor Felice Belman
Founded 1864
Headquarters 1 Monitor Drive, Concord, New Hampshire 03302 Flag of the United States United States
Circulation 20,107 daily, 22,747 Sunday[1]
Website: concordmonitor.com

The Concord Monitor is the daily newspaper for Concord, the state capital of New Hampshire. It also covers substantial portions of surrounding Merrimack and Belknap counties in New Hampshire's Lakes Region. The Monitor has several times been named as one of the best small papers in America and in April 2008, the Monitor became a Pulitzer Prize winning paper, when photographer Preston Gannaway was honored for feature photography. [1]

Its website includes blogs by former editor Mike Pride and editorial page editor Ari Richter (the latter concerning the upcoming 2008 New Hampshire primary). As the capital's newspaper, the Monitor is known for its coverage of state government and politics, including the "Capital Beat" column.

Contents

[edit] History

The Monitor has been published continuously since 1864, under a variety of names and owners. In the late 19th century it was owned by a publishing company called the Republican Press Association which also published a paper named the Independent Statesman.[2] Its masthead calls it the Concord Monitor and New Hampshire Patriot, although the Monitor name is the only one in widespread use.

William Dwight, publisher of the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram in Massachusetts, bought the Monitor in 1961, becoming its publisher. When he retired in 1975, his son-in-law George W. Wilson took over both the Monitor and Newspapers of New England Inc., the holding company of Dwight's newspapers in Concord, Holyoke and Greenfield, Massachusetts.[3]

The Monitor has been flagship of this chain -- now encompassing four dailies and three weeklies in New Hampshire and Massachusetts -- since 1993, when the Transcript-Telegram folded.

Its 2004 circulation was 22,000 daily, 23,000 Sundays. More recent figures put the daily circulation around 20,000.[1]

[edit] Awards and Honors

Photographer Preston Gannaway won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography in April 2008, shortly after departing from the Monitor.[2] Gannaway was honored for her work on a project called "Remember Me" chronicling a local woman's death. [3]

It was the first time a newspaper in New Hampshire was awarded the prize. The Monitor stood out as the smallest paper to win an award that year, with its circulation just a fraction of the next smallest, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. [4]

While 2008 was the first year the Monitor or one of its staff won a Pulitzer, the paper has a number of alums who have been honored, including Jo Becker, of the New York Times and Steven Pearlstein, of the Washington Post, both of whom also won the award in 2008.

In 1999 the Columbia Journalism Review said that the Monitor was the best small paper in America [5] and Time magazine has named it one of "America's best newspapers".[4]

[edit] Notable People

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Nationwide Advertising.com: Concord Monitor, figures for an undetermined date, accessed February 5, 2007.
  2. ^ Willey, George Franklyn (1903). State Builders; An Illustrated Historical and Biographical Record of the State of New Hampshire at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. Manchester NH: New Hampshire Pub. Corp, p.203.  OCLC 7566342
  3. ^ "William Dwight, 92, Holyoke Publisher". Obituary. Union-News, Springfield, Mass., June 5, 1996.
  4. ^ Concord Monitor: History, accessed February 5, 2007.

[edit] External links

v • d • e
Newspapers of New England Inc.
Daily newspapers
Concord Monitor  • Daily Hampshire Gazette  • The Recorder  • Valley News  • Defunct: Holyoke Transcript-Telegram
Weekly newspapers