| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | GateHouse Media |
| Publisher | Kirk A. Davis |
| Editor-in-chief | Richard K. Lodge |
| Editor | Brad Spiegel |
| Founded | 1863, asWaltham News Tribune |
| Ceased publication | August 31, 2010 |
| Headquarters | 738A Main Street,Waltham, Massachusetts 02451 United States |
| Circulation | 4,931 daily in 2007[1] |
| Website | dailynewstribune.com |
The Daily News Tribune (formerly called theNews-Tribune and theWaltham Evening News) was an afternoondaily newspaper inWaltham, Massachusetts,United States, covering that city and the neighboring city ofNewton.
In its last years, theTribune was managed and printed byThe MetroWest Daily News, and owned byCommunity Newspaper Company, a division ofGateHouse Media. In 2010, theTribune printed its last daily edition, and was replaced by a weekly newspaper called theWaltham News Tribune. It no longer covers Newton.
By 1980, theNews-Tribune was part of a five-paper chain, Transcript Newspapers Inc., that included theDaily Transcript ofDedham and threeweekly newspapers inWest Roxbury-Roslindale (neighborhoods ofBoston),Newton andNeedham (suburbs west of Boston).[2]
Between August 1984 and March 1986, the company was sold four times: toGillett Communications in 1984; then toThomson Newspapers that December; in April 1985 toWilliam Dean Singleton (head ofMediaNews Group)[3]—and eventually, in 1986, toHarte-Hanks, which combined it with theMiddlesex News to formNews-Transcript Group.[4]
News-Transcript, a chain of three dailies and several weekly newspapers stretching from Boston west toFramingham, Massachusetts, remained a Harte-Hanks property until 1994, when the company continued its divestment of print properties by selling the Massachusetts papers toFidelity Investments'Community Newspaper Company, already the publisher of dozens of weeklies in the Boston suburbs.[5]
A 1999 fire destroyed theNews-Tribune office at 99 Moody Street, Waltham, but the paper continued to publish, initially settling in CNC'sNeedham headquarters before returning to a new office in Waltham.[6]
CNC changed the newspaper's name, in 1999, toThe Daily News Tribune, to emphasize the paper's connections its sister papers.
In 2000, Fidelity sold CNC to the publisher of theBoston Herald.[7] The new owner instituted a content-sharing arrangement between CNC and theHerald, resulting in a regular stream ofDaily News stories appearing in the Boston newspaper.
That arrangement continued for a time after theHerald sold CNC to Liberty Group Publishing (later renamedGateHouse Media) in 2006.[8]
After convertingThe Daily News Transcript to a weekly newspaper in 2009, GateHouse made a similar move with its Waltham property in August 2010, adopting a semiweekly printing schedule for the renamedWaltham News Tribune, and focusing that paper's coverage on its home city. GateHouse continued to cover Newton via theNewton Tab, a weekly newspaper that CNC had owned since 1992.[9]
One year later, in July 2011, theWaltham News Tribune printed its final Tuesday edition, converting to once-a-week publication on Fridays.[10]