| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Gannett |
| Publisher | Lisa Stratton |
| Editor | Anne Brennan |
| Founded | 1887 (1887) |
| Headquarters | 197 Main Street,Milford,Massachusetts 01757,United States[1] |
| Circulation | 6,099 Daily 6,183 Sunday (as of 2012)[2] |
| OCLC number | 22144065 |
| Website | milforddailynews.com |
The Milford Daily News is an Americandaily newspaper coveringMilford, Massachusetts, and several nearby towns inNorfolk andWorcester counties.
The newspaper is managed and printed byThe MetroWest Daily News. Both are owned byGannett.
From 1977 to 1996, the newspaper was run byAlta Group Newspapers, a trust established by the Foster and Whitehouse families and managed byBank of Boston. The trust also ran daily newspapers inBiddeford, Maine, andLittle Falls, New York, as well as the family's charities.
To raise money for other obligations, the trust sold the papers in 1996 to CNC, then part ofFidelity Investments. CNC managers, upon their purchase of Alta, said they were most interested in the Milford property, which bordered the coverage area of two CNC dailies—theMiddlesex News and theDedham Transcript. Bill Elfers, CNC's CEO, called the Milford paper "an outstanding property"; it had made almostUS$5 million in revenues the previous year, accounting for the largest part of Alta'sUS$1 million annual profit.[3]
Terms of the deal were not made public. It was CNC's first foray into newspaper ownership outsideMassachusetts; at the time, some speculated that the company would quickly turn around and sell the New York and Maine dailies; Elfers denied these rumors,[3] but within a year, CNC had indeed unloaded theMaine andNew York papers.
In 2000, Fidelity sold CNC to the publisher of theBoston Herald.[4] 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.[5]