DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE

The '''Daily Hampshire Gazette''' is a six-day morning daily newspaper based in Northampton, Massachusetts, and covering all of Hampshire County and southern towns of Franklin County, Massachusetts. The newspaper prints Monday through Saturday, with the latter labeled "Weekend Edition".
In addition to its main office just south of downtown Northampton, the ''Gazette'' maintains news bureaux in Amherst and Easthampton, Massachusetts.

Contents

Sisters and competitors

History

References

External links

Sisters and competitors

Newspapers of New England, based in Concord, New Hampshire, owns both the ''Gazette'' and its main daily competitor to the north, ''The Recorder'' of Greenfield, Massachusetts. The ''Gazette'' also competes in its own coverage area with ''The Republican'', a regional daily in Springfield.
In addition to the daily newspaper, ''Gazette'' newsrooms publish two weekly newspapers serving Northampton's suburbs, based in the newspaper's two satellite news bureaux:^[2]

★ The '''Amherst Bulletin''', published every Friday, covers several towns east of Northampton: Amherst, Deerfield, Hadley, Leverett, Pelham, Shutesbury and Sunderland, Massachusetts.

★ '''The Summit''', a Thursday tabloid, is delivered free to each home in Easthampton, Southampton and Westhampton, Massachusetts.

History

First published September 6, 1786 -- with a news item about Shays' Rebellion -- the ''Gazette'' is one of oldest newspapers in the country, and had been owned by the DeRose family since 1929 before being sold for an undisclosed amount of money in 2005. The paper was sold to Newspapers of New England, said then-publisher and co-owner Peter L. DeRose, because there were no younger members of the family willing to take over the business.^[3]
DeRose, who stayed on as publisher for another year under the new owners, became co-publisher upon the death of his father, Charles N. DeRose, in 1970. Charles' mother, Harriet Williams DeRose, had purchased the ''Gazette'' in 1929. Peter and his brother Charles W. DeRose were credited with moving the newspaper's offices to a modern building just outside downtown Northampton on Conz Street; paying and treating ''Gazette'' employees well; and being a pioneer in establishing an Internet presence, now known as gazettenet.com.^[4]
Originally an afternoon newspaper, the ''Gazette'' responded to shifting readership demographics by moving its publication time earlier in the day, although it long resisted making the switch to early morning delivery on weekdays (the Saturday edition converted to morning distribution in the early 1970s). By the time of the Newspapers of New England sale, the ''Gazette'' was available at downtown newsstands as early as 11:30 a.m., although subscribers still had to wait until after mid-afternoon for delivery by schoolchildren. Under the new management, however, the ''Gazette'' opted to make the change to six-day morning publication in September 2006, partly to compete better with the rival Springfield ''Republican''.^[5]

References

1. Audit Bureau of Circulations "e-Circ" data, accessed December 8, 2006.
2. Daily Hampshire Gazette Advertising Rates, January 1, 2007. Accessed February 5, 2007.
3. Contrada, Fred. "'Hamp Gazette Sale Set." ''The Republican'', Springfield, Mass. September 28, 2005.
4. Contrada, Fred. "Publisher Leaves Gazette." ''The Republican'', Springfield, Mass. November 24, 2006.
5. Shanahan, Edward. "Gazette Morning Paper". Downstreet.net, June 13, 2006. Accessed January 27, 2007.

External links

★ Gazettenet.com -- ''Daily Hampshire Gazette'' Website

★ ''Amherst Bulletin'' Website

★ ''The Summit'' Website