| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | New England Newspapers Inc. |
| Editor | Unfilled |
| Founded | September 7, 1843 (1843-09-07), asThe Weekly Transcript |
| Ceased publication | January 2014 |
| Headquarters | 85 Main Street, Suite 2, North Adams,Massachusetts 01247, United States |
| Circulation | 4,808 weekdays 5,619 Saturdays in 2012[1] |
| OCLC number | 22536703 |
| Website | thetranscript.com |
TheNorth Adams Transcript, prior to being merged intoThe Berkshire Eagle in 2014, was an Americandaily newspaper published Mondays through Saturdays inNorth Adams, Massachusetts. It was one of four Massachusetts newspapers owned byMediaNews Group ofColorado.[2] Under the ownership of MediaNews Group and later Digital First Media, it was part of the New England Newspapers group. The group also included the Berkshire Eagle and Advocate Weekly, as well as three Vermont newspapers — the Bennington Banner, Brattleboro Reformer and Manchester Journal. The Advocate Weekly was shut down in January 2014.
Branded as "The Voice of the Northern Berkshires Since 1843," theTranscript covered North Adams andAdams,Cheshire,Clarksburg,Florida,Hancock,Lanesborough,New Ashford, andWilliamstown, Massachusetts; andPownal andStamford, Vermont.[3]
In 1896, theTranscript was bought by the Hardman family; 80 years later, co-publishers (and brothers) James Jr. and Robert Hardman sold it toThe Boston Globe, which turned it over toIngersoll Publications Inc. in 1979. Then, in 1989, Ingersoll sold the paper to theAmerican Publishing Company (later Hollinger International).[4]
TheTranscript in 1975 was named the best small daily newspaper inNew England.[5]
MediaNews Group, through its subsidiary Garden State Newspapers, acquired the paper from Hollinger in 1996 as part of a 10-newspaper trade involving properties from four other states. The purchase allowed MediaNews to deepen its ties toWestern Massachusetts, where it had already boughtThe Berkshire Eagle the year before.[6]
JournalistDaniel Pearl got his start at theTranscript in the late 1980s before going toThe Wall Street Journal in 1990.
The Transcript was absorbed into the Berkshire Eagle in January 2014.
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