CONCORD MONITOR

The '''Concord Monitor''' is the daily newspaper for Concord, the state capital of New Hampshire. It also covers substantial portions of surrounding Merrimack and Belknap counties in New Hampshire's Lakes Region. In 1999 the ''Columbia Journalism Review'' said that the ''Monitor'' was the best small paper in America.[1]
Its website includes blogs by editor Mike Pride and editorial page editor Ari Richter (the latter concerning the upcoming 2008 New Hampshire primary). As the capital's newspaper, the ''Monitor'' is known for its coverage of state government and politics, including the "Capital Beat" column by Eric Moskowitz and Sarah Liebowitz.

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History

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References

External links

History

The ''Monitor'' has been published continuously since 1864, under a variety of names and owners. Its masthead calls it the ''Concord Monitor and New Hampshire Patriot'', although the ''Monitor'' name is the only one in widespread use.
William Dwight, publisher of the ''Holyoke Transcript-Telegram'' in Massachusetts, bought the ''Monitor'' in 1961, becoming its publisher. When he retired in 1975, his son-in-law George W. Wilson took over both the ''Monitor'' and Newspapers of New England Inc., the holding company of Dwight's newspapers in Concord, Holyoke and Greenfield, Massachusetts.^[2]
The ''Monitor'' has been flagship of this chain -- now encompassing four dailies and three weeklies in New Hampshire and Massachusetts -- since 1993, when the ''Transcript-Telegram'' folded.
''Time'' magazine has named it one of "America's best newspapers".^[3]
Its 2004 circulation was 22,000 daily, 23,000 Sundays. More recent figures put the daily circulation around 20,000.

See also

★ New Hampshire State House press

References

1. Nationwide Advertising.com: Concord Monitor, figures for an undetermined date, accessed February 5, 2007.
2. "William Dwight, 92, Holyoke Publisher". Obituary. ''Union-News'', Springfield, Mass., June 5, 1996.
3. Concord Monitor: History, accessed February 5, 2007.

External links

★ ''Concord Monitor'' Online

★ Editor Mike Pride's Blog