| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Gannett |
| Publisher | Rick Emanuel |
| Editor | Jennifer Reed |
| Founded | The Ontario Gazette and Western Chronicle, originally published in Geneva, New York, in 1796 |
| Headquarters | 73 Buffalo Street, Canandaigua,New York 14424,United States |
| Circulation | 5,779 (as of 2018)[1] |
| OCLC number | 10768064 |
| Website | MPNnow.com |
TheDaily Messenger is an Americandaily newspaper published weekday afternoons and on Sundays (as theSunday Messenger) inCanandaigua, New York. It is owned byGannett.
In addition to the city of Canandaigua, theDaily Messenger covers all ofOntario County, and its associatedweekly newspapers coverMonroe andWayne counties. Together, the Messenger Post Newspapers cover the eastern portion of theRochester metropolitan area.
The paper was founded in Canandaigua as theweeklyGenesee Messenger in 1806, adopting the nameOntario Messenger in 1810.[2] A merger withThe Ontario Repository in 1862 yielded a combined weekly calledThe Ontario Repository and Messenger.[3] When the paper converted to daily publication in 1906, it took the nameThe Ontario Messenger and Repository. In the 1910s this was shortened toThe Daily Messenger.[4]
Although theMessenger name began in 1806, its history throughThe Repository was much longer. That paper incorporated theOntario Freeman (1803), theWestern Repository and Genesee Advertiser (1803) andThe Ontario Gazette and Western Chronicle, originally published inGeneva, New York, in 1796. In the 1910s theDaily Messenger billed itself as the "oldest newspaper west of Hudson River".
Newspapers in the Messenger Post Newspapers chain share their Canandaigua headquarters building, the MPNnow.com website, their publisher and executive editor, and their business office functions. Messenger Post papers include:
Apart from Messenger Post, the parent company GateHouse Media also owns two other nearby weeklies in theGenesee Valley,The Chronicle-Express ofPenn Yan and theGenesee Country Express ofDansville, and several properties in theSouthern Tier, including theSteuben Courier ofBath and three dailies,The Leader ofCorning,The Evening Tribune ofHornell and theWellsville Daily Reporter inWellsville.
GateHouse, which owns hundreds of daily and weekly newspapers fromCalifornia toMassachusetts, has its corporate offices in Fairport, which is in the Messenger Post coverage area.