Gloucester Daily Times

Infobox Newspaper
name = Gloucester Daily Times


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type = Daily newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation = 1888
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price = US$2Fact|date=July 2007
owners = Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
publisher = Al Getler
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circulation = 10,020 daily, 9,958 Saturday in 2007.Audit Bureau of Circulations [http://www.accessabc.com/products/freereports.htm e-Circ data] for the six months ending March 31, 2007, accessed July 8, 2007.]
headquarters = 36 Whittemore Street, Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930 USA
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website = [http://www.gloucestertimes.com/ gloucestertimes.com] The "Gloucester Daily Times" is a six-day (Monday through Saturday) evening daily newspaper published in Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA. The newspaper is published by Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.

In addition to its home city, the paper also covers adjacent towns on Cape Ann in Essex County: Essex, Manchester-by-the-Sea and Rockport. Its circulation is approximately 10,000, giving it some 22,000 readers each day. [http://plus.gloucestertimes.com/ze/info/faq.htm GloucesterTimes.com: FAQ] , accessed July 8, 2007.]

History

Although it began as an independent daily in 1888, in recent years the paper has the centerpiece of a consolidation effort that has seen almost all the North Shore papers bought by one owner, CNHI.

Essex County Newspapers was founded by Philip Saltonstall Weld, a former "International Herald Tribune" publisher who bought newspapers in Gloucester and Newburyport in 1952, later adding the Beverly and Peabody titles. Weld was among the first small-daily publishers to endorse political candidates, and in 1958 the "Gloucester Daily Times" became the first afternoon daily to print its Saturday edition in the morning, to put its pressmen on a five-day workweek. [Palmer, Thomas. "Philip S. Weld Sr., 69, Was Publisher, Set Record in Solo Crossing of Atlantic". Obituary. "The Boston Globe", November 7, 1984.]

By the 1980s, the chain was owned by Ottaway Community Newspapers, a division of Dow Jones & Company, which also owned the "Cape Cod Times" and "The Standard-Times" of New Bedford. Ottaway added "The Salem Evening News" to its holdings, closing the evening "Beverly Times" and "Peabody Times", in 1995. ["R.I. Evening Paper to Close; 3 North of Boston Combining". "The Boston Globe", March 24, 1995.]

"The Eagle-Tribune" of North Andover, one of Essex County Newspapers' chief competitors, bought the North Shore chain in 2002, paying US$70 million for the "Gloucester Daily Times", "The Daily News of Newburyport" and "The Salem Evening News". "Eagle-Tribune" executives touted the creation of a regional news organization; they also laid off some 45 staffers at the Essex County papers, including the editors of the Newburyport and Salem papers. [Gatlin, Greg. "Buyers of N. Shore Papers Ax Top Editors". "Boston Herald", May 30, 2002.]

The "Eagle-Tribune" chain was itself bought for an undisclosed amount of money by Community Newspaper Holdings, an Alabama company, in 2005. ["Eagle-Tribune Chain Sold to Ala. Newspaper Group". "The Patriot Ledger" (Quincy, Mass.), July 28, 2005.]

References

External links

* [http://www.gloucestertimes.com/ "Gloucester Daily Times" Website]
* [http://www.eagletribune.com/ Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company] .
* [http://www.cnhi.com/ Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.]