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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Vermont News and Media LLC |
| Publisher | Jordan Brechenser |
| Editor | Managing Editor: Tim Wassberg |
| Founded | 1841 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 423 Main Street Bennington, Vermont 05201  United States |
| Website | benningtonbanner |
The Bennington Banner is a dailynewspaper published inBennington, Vermont. The paper covers local, national, and world news. It is distributed throughout Southwestern Vermont and eastern New York (Rensselaer and Washington Counties). The paper is owned byVermont News and Media LLC and is published Monday through Friday, plus a weekend edition.[1]
Vermont newspaperman and Republican politician,Frank E. Howe, bought twoBennington, Vermont, weeklies in 1902 and merged them to form the dailyBennington Banner, of which he was publisher and editor.
Around 1960–1961, theBennington Banner was purchased by Lawrence Miller and his brother Donald, the sons ofKelton B. Miller, a politician and newspaperman in nearbyPittsfield, Massachusetts. Kelton's grandson, also named Kelton Miller, served as publisher of theBanner from 1977 until 1995, at which point it was purchased byMediaNews Group.[2][3][4]
UnderMediaNews Group ownership, Jim Therrien served as managing editor of theBanner from 2006 to 2012.[5]MediaNews Group eventually combined with other entities and re-branded asDigital First Media.[2]
In 2016, theBanner and other newspapers in theNew England Newspapers Inc. portfolio were purchased fromDigital First Media by a group ofBerkshire County, Massachusetts-based investors.[3] In May 2021 the New England Newspapers sold Bennington Banner, Brattleboro Reformer and Manchester Journal to Vermont News and Media LLC
A copy of theBennington Banner is shown inNorman Rockwell's paintingFreedom from Fear, one of the paintings in hisFour Freedoms series.[citation needed]
In early 2007 theBennington Banner came under fire fromThe O'Reilly Factor for allegedly not taking an editorial stance on a legal case involving child molestation,[6] an accusation disputed by the newspaper's editor at the time, Jim Therrien.[7]