- The Milford Daily News
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The Milford Daily News Type Daily newspaper Format Broadsheet Owner GateHouse Media Publisher Kirk A. Davis Editor Richard K. Lodge Founded 1887 Headquarters 159 South Main Street, Milford, Massachusetts 01757 
United StatesCirculation 8,628 daily, 7,589 Sunday in 2007[1] Official website milforddailynews.com The Milford Daily News is a daily newspaper covering Milford, Massachusetts, USA, and several nearby towns in Norfolk and Worcester counties.
The newspaper is managed and printed by The MetroWest Daily News. Both are owned by Community Newspaper Company, a division of GateHouse Media.
History
From 1977 to 1996, the newspaper was run by Alta Group Newspapers, a trust established by the Foster and Whitehouse families and managed by Bank of Boston. The trust also ran daily newspapers in Biddeford, Maine, and Little 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 of Fidelity 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 -- the Middlesex News and the Dedham Transcript. Bill Elfers, CNC's CEO, called the Milford paper "an outstanding property"; it had made almost US$5 million in revenues the previous year, accounting for the largest part of Alta's US$1 million annual profit.[2]
Terms of the deal were not made public. It was CNC's first foray into newspaper ownership outside Massachusetts; at the time, some speculated that the company would quickly turn around and sell the New York and Maine dailies; Elfers denied these rumors[2], but within a year, CNC had indeed unloaded the Maine and New York papers.
In 2000, Fidelity sold CNC to the publisher of the Boston Herald.[3] The new owner instituted a content-sharing arrangement between CNC and the Herald, resulting in a regular stream of Daily News stories appearing in the Boston newspaper.
That arrangement continued even after the Herald sold CNC to Liberty Group Publishing (later renamed GateHouse Media) in 2006.[4]
References
- ^ Audit Bureau of Circulations "e-Circ" data for six months ending March 31, 2007.
- ^ a b "Community Spreads Out, But Are the New Papers Keepers?" NewsInc., December 9, 1996. Accessed August 10, 2007.
- ^ Jurkowitz, Mark. "Boston Herald to Buy Community Newspapers". The Boston Globe, p. A1, September 29, 2000.
- ^ Gatlin, Greg. "Herald to Sell Suburban Papers". Boston Herald, May 6, 2006.
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Ownership history: Fidelity Investments, 1986–2001 • Herald Media, 2001–2006 • GateHouse Media, since 2006Major acquisitions: Alta Group Newspapers • Bay State Newspaper Company • Beacon Communications Corporation (and Enterprise-Sun) • Cape Cod Publishing Company • Community Weeklies • Mariner Group (from Capital Cities/ABC) • Memorial Press Group • News-Transcript Group (from Harte-Hanks) • Norfolk Newspaper Company • North Shore Weeklies • Suburban World Newspapers • Tab CommunicationsCNC newspapers: The Daily News Transcript • The Daily News Tribune • The MetroWest Daily News • The Milford Daily News • CNC WeekliesOther GateHouse Media Massachusetts daily newspapers: The Enterprise • The Herald News • The Patriot Ledger • Taunton Daily GazetteCategories:- Media in Worcester County, Massachusetts
- MetroWest
- Newspapers published in Massachusetts
- Milford, Massachusetts
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