| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. |
| Publisher | John Celestino |
| Editor | David Rogers |
| Founded | 1887 |
| Headquarters | 23 Liberty Street, Newburyport,Massachusetts 01950,United States[1] |
| Circulation | 9,649 daily (as of 2012)[2] |
| OCLC number | 22410213 |
| Website | newburyportnews.com |
The Daily News of Newburyport is an Americandaily newspaper covering northeasternEssex County, Massachusetts,USA. The newspaper is published Monday through Saturday mornings byNorth of Boston Media Group, a subsidiary ofCommunity Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Based inNewburyport, Massachusetts, the paper also covers several neighboring cities and towns:Amesbury,Georgetown,Merrimac,Newbury,Rowley,Salisbury andWest Newbury, Massachusetts, andSeabrook, New Hampshire.
Although it began as an independent daily in 1887, in the 21st century the paper has been part of a consolidation effort that has seen almost all theNorth Shore papers bought by one owner, CNHI.
Essex County Newspapers was founded by Philip Saltonstall Weld, a formerInternational Herald Tribune publisher who bought newspapers in Gloucester and Newburyport in 1952, later adding Beverly and Peabody titles. Weld was among the first small-daily publishers to endorse political candidates.[3]
By the 1980s, the chain was owned byOttaway Community Newspapers, a division ofDow Jones & Company, which also owned theCape Cod Times andThe Standard-Times ofNew Bedford. Ottaway addedThe Salem Evening News to its holdings, closing the eveningBeverly Times andPeabody Times, in 1995.[4]
The Eagle-Tribune ofNorth Andover, one of Essex County Newspapers' chief competitors, bought the North Shore chain in 2002, payingUS$70 million for theGloucester Daily Times,The Daily News of Newburyport andThe Salem Evening News.Eagle-Tribune executives touted the creation of a regional news organization; they also laid off some 45 staffers at the Essex County papers, including the editors of the Newburyport and Salem papers.[5]
TheEagle-Tribune chain, now the dominant daily news organization on the seacoast north ofBoston, was itself bought for an undisclosed amount of money byCommunity Newspaper Holdings, anAlabama company, in 2005.[6]
Richard K. Lodge was hired as managing editor in October 2016, after working as editor-in-chief for The MetroWest Daily News in Framingham, Massachusetts, since 2001. Lodge's title was changed to editor of The Daily News of Newburyport in December 2017. Lodge retired in December 2021, and was replaced as editor by Daily News reporter David Rogers.
The Daily News prices are: $1 Monday-Friday, $1.50 on Saturday. Digital subscriptions also are available.