| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | GateHouse Media |
| Publisher | Kirk A. Davis |
| Editor | Richard K. Lodge |
| Founded | 1870, asDedham Transcript |
| Ceased publication | September 25, 2009 |
| Headquarters | 1091 Washington Street,Norwood, Massachusetts 02062 United States |
| Circulation | 3,947 Daily (as of 2007)[1] |
| Price | US$0.50 daily |
| Website | dailynewstranscript.com |
The Daily News Transcript (formerly known as theDedham Transcript and theNeponset Valley Daily News) was a five-day (Monday through Friday) afternoondaily newspaper inNorwood, Massachusetts,U.S., covering theNeponset Valley ofNorfolk County, Massachusetts. TheTranscript was originally published inDedham, and also coveredWalpole andWestwood.
In its final years, theTranscript was managed and printed byThe MetroWest Daily News. Both were owned byCommunity Newspaper Company, a division ofGateHouse Media.
In the mid-1800s, the Transcript was published by John Cox, Jr., and edited by Samuel H. Cox.[2][a]
By 1980, theTranscript—then called theDaily Transcript—was the flagship of a five-paper chain, Transcript Newspapers Inc., that included theNews-Tribune ofWaltham and threeweekly newspapers inWest Roxbury-Roslindale (neighborhoods ofBoston),Newton andNeedham (suburbs west of Boston).[4]
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)[5]—and eventually, in 1986, toHarte-Hanks, which combined it with theMiddlesex News to formNews-Transcript Group.[6]
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.[7]
CNC changed the newspaper's name, in 1999, toNeponset Valley Daily News, to emphasize the paper's connections with its home region and its sister papers. This name was changed again shortly after, toDaily News Transcript.
In 2000, Fidelity sold CNC to the publisher of theBoston Herald.[8] 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 even after theHerald sold CNC to Liberty Group Publishing (later renamedGateHouse Media) in 2006.[9][10]
On August 20, 2009, GateHouse Media announced the Daily News Transcript would be ending publication in October 2009. The company plans to continue to cover the towns in the Transcript's coverage area with weekly papers, including a new one called the Dedham Transcript.[11]
The last edition of the Daily News Transcript was published on September 25, 2009.[12][13][14] After being merged with the Norwood Bulletin, it is now published as the Transcript and Bulletin.
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