North Adams Transcript

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North Adams Transcript
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	MediaNews Group
Publisher	Robert Chapman
Editor	Glenn Drohan
Founded	1843
Price	USD .50
Headquarters	124 American Legion Drive, North Adams, Massachusetts 01247 USA
Circulation	6,279 in 2006^[1]

Website: thetranscript.com

The North Adams Transcript is a six-day daily newspaper published Monday through Saturday in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Branded as "Your Daily News Source for the Greylock Region," the Transcript covers North Adams and Adams, Cheshire, Clarksburg, Florida, Hancock, Lanesborough, New Ashford, Pittsfield and Williamstown, Massachusetts; and Pownal and Stamford, Vermont.^[2]

[edit] History

In 1896, the Transcript was bought by the Hardman family; 80 years later, co-publishers (and brothers) James Jr. and Robert Hardman sold it to The Boston Globe, which turned it over to Ingersoll Publications Inc. and then, in 1989, to American Publishing Company.^[3]

The Transcript in 1975 was named the best small daily newspaper in New England.^[4]

MediaNews Group, through its subsidiary Garden State Newspapers, acquired the paper from American in 1996 as part of a 10-newspaper trade involving properties from four other states, as well as Hollinger International. The purchase allowed MediaNews to deepen its ties to Western Massachusetts, where it had already bought The Berkshire Eagle the year before.^[5]

[edit] References

^ MediaNews Group Paid Circulation, accessed December 9, 2006.
^ North Adams Transcript advertising rate card, accessed December 9, 2006.
^ "James Hardman Jr., Ex-Publisher, at 80." The Union-News (Springfield, Mass.), May 15, 1990.
^ "James A. Hardman Jr.; Was Editor of North Adams Daily for 33 Years." The Boston Globe, May 15, 1990.
^ "N. Adams Transcript in Newspaper Swap." The Union-News (Springfield, Mass.), April 5, 1996.