| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Woburn Daily Times Inc. |
| Publisher | Peter M Haggerty |
| Editor | James D Haggerty lll |
| Founded | 1901 |
| Headquarters | 1 Arrow Drive,Woburn, Massachusetts 01801 United States |
| Circulation | 11,195 (as of 2007)[1] |
| Website | homenewshere.com |
TheDaily Times Chronicle is a family-owned five-day (Monday through Friday)daily newspaper published inWoburn, Massachusetts, with separate daily editions and associatedweekly newspapers covering several towns alongMassachusetts Route 128 in easternMiddlesex County.
The newspaper was formerly known as theWoburn Daily Times andReading Chronicle. It also publishesThe Stoneham Independent,Tewksbury Town Crier andWilmington Town Crier.
Printed on non-holiday weekdays only, theDaily Times Chronicle looks different in each of the towns it covers, with separate editions, editors and reporters forBurlington,Reading,Winchester and Woburn.[2]
One of the paper's quirks is that it does not publish unsignededitorials on its opinion page, and that it publishesletters to the editor on its local news pages.
Sports lead off theDaily Times Chronicle's second of two sections, which often also includes a society news page. Sports coverage, as with news coverage, is intensely local, often with no or only one regional or national story—written by theAssociated Press—on the front page.
Woburn's Haggerty family—specifically, James D. Haggerty, Paul L. Haggerty and James D. Haggerty Jr.-- owned and served as editors and publishers of the paper since it was founded as theWoburn Daily Times in 1901 through 1980. In 1967, the Haggertys bought theReading Chronicle, and in 1981 merged the weeklyChronicle into theDaily Times to create the current newspaper. The newspaper's main office and printing plant is located at 1 Arrow Drive in Woburn, although it retains a news bureau, the formerChronicle office, on Main Street in Reading. Since 1980 the newspaper has been owned and operated by the grandsons of James D. Haggerty including Peter Haggerty, Publisher; Richard P. Haggerty, General Manager; James D. Haggerty III, Editor; and Mark Haggerty, Business Manager.
TheDaily Times was headquartered from 1921 to 1987 at 23-25 Montvale Avenue in downtown Woburn. That building was targeted by an arsonist January 19, 1985, who set 12 fires in the press room, causing $200,000 in damage.[3]
The building was sold to Peterson School of Steam Engineering after the newspaper moved to its Arrow Drive plant.[4]
Since 1987 the company has operated out of a 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m2) building located 1 Arrow Drive in Woburn.
In addition to the five local editions of the daily newspaper, Woburn Daily Times Inc. publishes three weekly newspapers in adjoining towns and a weekly supplement,Middlesex East, that runs in both the daily and the weeklies, as well asThe Lynnfield Villager andNorth Reading Transcript, which are owned separately. The three weeklies owned by Woburn Daily Times Inc. are:
TheDaily Times Chronicle competes with several newspapers for readers. Aside fromThe Boston Globe, which attracts many readers who prefer a regional view, Wakefield readers have a hometown daily,The Wakefield Daily Item; andThe Sun ofLowell competes in Tewksbury. Several weekly newspapers owned byCommunity Newspaper Company also compete with the locally owned Daily Times company. These titles include theBurlington Union,Reading Advocate,Stoneham Sun,Wakefield Observer,Winchester Star andWoburn Advocate.
