The Daily News Transcript
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| The Daily News Transcript | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | GateHouse Media |
| Publisher | Kirk A. Davis |
| Editor | Richard K. Lodge |
| Founded | 1870, as Dedham Transcript |
| Price | US$0.50 daily |
| Headquarters | 1091 Washington Street, Norwood, Massachusetts 02062  United States |
| Circulation | 3,947 daily in 2007[1] |
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| Website: dailynewstranscript.com | |
The Daily News Transcript (formerly known as the Neponset Valley Daily News) is a five-day (Monday through Friday) afternoon daily newspaper in Norwood, Massachusetts, U.S., covering the Neponset Valley of Norfolk County, Massachusetts. The Transcript was originally published in Dedham, which is still part of its coverage area, along with Walpole and Westwood.
The Transcript is managed and printed by The MetroWest Daily News. Both are owned by Community Newspaper Company, a division of GateHouse Media.
[edit] History
By 1980, the Transcript -- then called the Daily Transcript -- was the flagship of a five-paper chain, Transcript Newspapers Inc., that included the News-Tribune of Waltham 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]
CNC changed the newspaper's name, in 1999, to Neponset Valley Daily News, to emphasize the paper's connections with its home region and its sister papers. This name was changed again shortly after, to Daily News Transcript.
In 2000, Fidelity sold CNC to the publisher of the Boston Herald.[6] 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.[7]
[edit] 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.
- ^ 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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