DAILY TIMES CHRONICLE

The '''Daily Times Chronicle''' is an independent five-day (Monday through Friday) daily newspaper published in Woburn, Massachusetts, with separate daily editions and associated weekly newspapers covering several towns along Massachusetts Route 128 in eastern Middlesex County.
The newspaper was formerly known as the '''Woburn Daily Times''' and '''Reading Chronicle'''. It also publishes ''The Stoneham Independent'', ''Tewksbury Town Crier'' and ''Wilmington Town Crier''.

Contents

Today's paper

History

Sisters and competitors

References

External link

Today's paper

Published on non-holiday weekdays only, the ''Daily Times Chronicle'' looks different in each of the towns it covers, with separate editions, editors and reporters for Burlington, Reading, Wakefield, Winchester and Woburn.^[2]
While most other Massachusetts newspapers, have gone to desktop publishing, the ''Daily Times Chronicle'' still relies on paste up composition. Another of the paper's quirks is that it does not publish unsigned editorials on its opinion page, and that it publishes letters to the editor on its local news pages, not on the opinion page.
Sports lead off the ''Daily 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 the Associated Press -- on the front page.
Only the Woburn edition of the ''Daily Times Chronicle'' has an Internet presence, Woburnonline.com. That site is updated daily with four of yesterday's top local stories and yesterday's local sports news.

History

Woburn's Haggerty family -- specifically, James D. Haggerty, Paul L. Haggerty, James D. Haggerty Jr. and James D. Haggerty III -- have owned and served as editors and publishers of the paper since it was founded as the ''Woburn Daily Times'' in 1901. In the late 1970s, the Haggertys bought a competing paper, the ''Reading Chronicle'', and in the 1990s merged the weekly ''Chronicle'' into the ''Daily Times'' to create the current newspaper. The newspaper's main office and printing plant is in an office park in Woburn, although it retains a news bureau, the former ''Chronicle'' office, on Main Street in Reading.
The ''Daily Times'' was headquartered from 1921 to 1989 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]

Sisters and competitors

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 as ''The Lynnfield Villager'' and ''North Reading Transcript'', which are owned separately. The three weeklies owned by Woburn Daily Times Inc. are:

★ The Stoneham Independent, founded in 1870, published each Wednesday from an office on Main Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Average circulation was 4,000 in 2006.^[5]

★ The ''Tewksbury Town Crier'' and ''Wilmington Town Crier'', published each Wednesday in Tewksbury and Wilmington, Massachusetts.
The ''Daily Times Chronicle'' competes with several newspapers for readers. Aside from ''The Boston Globe'', which attracts many readers who prefer a regional view, Wakefield readers have a hometown daily, ''The Wakefield Daily Item''; and ''The Sun'' of Lowell competes in Tewksbury. Several weekly newspapers owned by Community Newspaper Company also compete with the locally owned Daily Times company. These titles include the ''Burlington Union'', ''Reading Advocate'', ''Stoneham Sun'', ''Wakefield Observer'', ''Winchester Star'' and ''Woburn Advocate''.

References

1. Self-reported figure from http://www.woburnonline.com/advertising.html, accessed January 26, 2007.
2. Daily Times Chronicle: Advertising Information, accessed January 26, 2007.
3. Murphy, Jeremiah V. "12 Fires Set at Woburn Paper but Presses to Roll Tomorrow." ''The Boston Globe'', January 20, 1985.
4. "Cushman & Wakefield Broker Cambridge Space." Brief. ''The Boston Globe'', October 8, 1989.
5. Stoneham Independent Rate Card for 2007, accessed January 26, 2007.

External link

★ ''The Stoneham Independent'' Website

★ Woburnonline -- ''Daily Times Chronicle'' Website