| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Newspapers |
| Founded | Late 1970s |
| Headquarters | Concord, New Hampshire |
Key people | Chuck Goodrich, president and CEO |
| Products | Concord Monitor and six other newspapers inNew England |
| Website | www |
Newspapers of New England, Inc. (NNE) is a privately ownedpublisher of ninedaily andweekly newspapers in the U.S. states ofMassachusetts andNew Hampshire.
The company'sflagship publication is theConcord Monitor, in New Hampshire's capital. Its largest circulation newspaper in Massachusetts is theDaily Hampshire Gazette ofNorthampton.
The company was founded in the late 1970s as a holding company for various properties owned by the Dwight family, longtime publishers of the (now defunct)Holyoke Transcript-Telegram. Under the leadership of publisher Minnie Dwight and her son, William, theT-T in 1955 boughtThe Recorder-Gazette ofGreenfield, Massachusetts. Minnie died two years later, and William bought theMonitor in 1961.[1] In 1960, theT-Tbought theEdwardsville Intelligencer in Illinois; the paper was sold in 1964.[2]
When son-in-law George W. Wilson, publisher of theMonitor, was named company president in the late 1970s, theT-T,Recorder andMonitor were placed under the umbrella of Newspapers of New England. The company added theValley News ofLebanon, New Hampshire, in 1981.[1]
In the 1980s, NNE added the weeklyMonadnock Ledger to its portfolio, but soon had to shed its original flagship: In January 1993, the 110-year-oldTranscript-Telegram was closed after four years of heavy losses.[3]
NNE remained the publisher of the Concord, Greenfield and Lebanon dailies, plus theLedger, until purchasing theDaily Hampshire Gazette in 2005.[4]
In December 2007, the company announced it would buy one of theGazette's main competitors, thealternative weeklyValley Advocate ofEasthampton, which had been founded in 1973. TheAdvocate was owned byTribune Company, which also publishes theHartford Courant andAdvocate weeklies inConnecticut.Advocate circulation at the time was given at 50,000.[5]
The following daily and weekly newspapers are published by Newspapers of New England: