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40-712: Published as a daily since 1882, after four years of heavy losses the newspaper ceased publication in January 1993; at the time it was one of the longest running Massachusetts papers to fold, two decades longer than the Boston Post . Long owned by the Dwight family, the T-T 's last owner was Newspapers of New England , which had been founded by the Dwights as a holding company for the T-T and other newspapers it had acquired. With

80-540: A Pulitzer Prize winning paper, when photographer Preston Gannaway was honored for feature photography. After publishing seven days a week for decades, starting in March 2024, it ceased print publication on Sundays. The Monitor has been published continuously since 1864, under a variety of names, including the Evening Monitor , and owners. In the late 19th century it was owned by a publishing company called

120-504: A "Holyoke Union-News " edition) or Holyoke's substantial and growing immigrant population, which diluted the market for an English-language newspaper. In a newspaper interview, the T-T 's then-publisher blamed economics: "You're wrestling with a market that has decreased substantially over the last two decades", said Murray D. Schwartz, publisher of the Transcript-Telegram . "It has really lost its downtown core. It's really

160-477: A precious right inherent in our way of life". Though their success would be limited, and the Transcript-Telegram itself would not send journalists to China, Dwight's work would prove influential in the discontinuation of this policy. William Dwight, Jr., stayed on as publisher only until 1981, when the company board, made up largely of his family including brother-in-law George W. Wilson, fired him. William Jr. later blamed his out-of-towner replacements for

200-713: A time Dwight would be instrumental in the national discourse of American foreign news coverage. On April 26, 1956 Dwight assumed the post of president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association , which he held until 1958. As president of that publishing organization, Dwight would publicly challenge the policy of the President Eisenhower 's Secretary of State John Foster Dulles , who had barred American journalists from covering events inside Communist China. Working with counterparts of other news organizations to rally against

240-698: A traditional story of what has happened to American cities." Out of 69 workers at the newspaper on the day it closed, the company laid off 36. The remainder took jobs at four weekly newspapers, published at the Transcript-Telegram building, intended to take the daily's place. Microfilm copies of the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram can be found at the Holyoke History Room of the Holyoke Public Library as well as Mount Holyoke College . Immediately after

280-449: A year prior to the daily's demise. The free tabloids immediately proved unprofitable, however, and the company pulled the plug on the experiment only three months later. The Holyoke Transcript-Telegram published its final edition April 23, 1993. With the weekly T-T gone, Holyoke was in "a virtual news blackout", according to journalist Carolyn Ryan, "with only a gossip sheet called Hello, Holyoke remaining for local media". Indeed, it

320-645: Is they added enormous expense to the newspaper and it was not covered by the income." In 1988 the T-T was named "best newspaper in New England" by the New England Newspaper Publishers Association, but in the years 1988 to 1992 the newspaper was said to have lost $ 1 million as advertising and circulation declined. Some observers blamed competition with the Union-News of Springfield (which would later publish

360-713: Is true that Hello, Holyoke' s coverage was almost exclusively local news and opinion, with no reporting of world or national news or sports or financial coverage. That vacuum went unfilled until two years later, when Justin Prisendorf established the Holyoke Sun . The Sun proved to have staying power and continues to publish today. Hello, Holyoke ceased publication in 2006. Since 2001 the 10,000-circulation Sun has been owned by Turley Publications . [REDACTED] Media related to Holyoke Transcript-Telegram at Wikimedia Commons Boston Post The Boston Post

400-639: The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette . His later purchases of the Concord Monitor and Valley News in New Hampshire would lead to the establishment of Newspapers of New England , the company that eventually decided to close the T-T . Following Minnie's death in 1957, her son William became publisher of the T-T , a title he held until his son, William Jr., took the reins in 1975. William Sr. stayed on as chairman of

440-590: The Associated Press and other journalistic bodies to pressure the Secretary of State. In a widely-quoted April 1957 speech he would go on to say "[a]rguments based on the evils of the Peiping [Beijing] Regime have been advanced to bolster the decision to keep us from finding out for ourselves what is taking place over there. They should not prevail over the majestic principle of the people's right to know,

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480-678: The Boston Morning Post of 1839. Concord Monitor The Concord Monitor is the daily newspaper for Concord , the state capital of New Hampshire . It also covers surrounding towns in Merrimack County , most of Belknap County , as well as portions of Grafton , Rockingham and Hillsborough counties. The Monitor has several times been named as one of the best small papers in America and in April 2008, became

520-610: The Monitor from Langley 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 . The Monitor has been flagship of this chain — now encompassing four dailies and three weeklies in New Hampshire and Massachusetts — since 1993, when

560-477: The Post to his son, Richard . Upon Edwin's death in 1924, Richard inherited the paper. Under the younger Grozier, The Boston Post grew into one of the largest newspapers in the country. At its height in the 1930s, it had a circulation of well over a million readers. At the same time, Richard Grozier suffered an emotional breakdown from the death of his wife in childbirth from which he never recovered. Throughout

600-507: The Transcript-Telegram folded. Its 2004 circulation was 22,000 daily, 23,000 Sundays. More recent figures put the daily circulation around 20,000. In 2005, George W. Wilson retired as president of Newspapers of New England. Tom Brown became president of NNE, and Geordie Wilson, George W. Wilson's son, became publisher of the Monitor . Brown retired in 2009 and was replaced by Aaron Julien, George W. Wilson's son-in-law. John Winn Miller, former publisher of The Olympian of Olympia, Wash.,

640-570: The 1940s, facing increasing competition from the Hearst -run papers in Boston and New York and from radio and television news, the paper began a decline from which it never recovered. When it ceased publishing in October 1956, its daily circulation was 230,000. From 1904 through 1916, "Sunday Magazine" was a regular syndicated supplement to Sunday editions of newspapers in various cities across

680-786: The Republican Press Association which also published a paper named the Independent Statesman . Its masthead calls it the Concord Monitor and New Hampshire Patriot , although the Monitor name is the only one in widespread use. James M. Langley , who had acquired both publications in the 1920s, was responsible for the merger. William Dwight, publisher of the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram in Massachusetts , bought

720-658: The State Department's policies, on February 6, 1957, Dwight would publish an open telegram to Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon , later reprinted in Congressional testimony, positing four principles that the organization saw as key to American journalism: 1. Newspaper or magazine writers who are American citizens and employed by American publications and newsgathering services to gather and write news or express opinion on facts should be accorded by our Government freedom to travel for that purpose in any country in

760-711: The United Kingdom met in Holyoke to see the first newsprint papers commercially made from bagasse , produced by the Chemical Paper Company, and used as paper stock in a special edition of the Transcript-Telegram . Before the end of the decade, Dwight presided over a number of national affiliates, including as a director and vice chairman of the Associated Press , and chairman of the Newspaper Advertising Bureau. Indeed for

800-558: The United States, including The Boston Post , The Philadelphia Press , New-York Tribune , Chicago Tribune , St. Louis Republic , Detroit Free Press , and Minneapolis Journal . The supplement in Boston was initially titled "Sunday Magazine of the Boston Sunday Post"; later, as "Boston Sunday Post Sunday Magazine". The regular 20-page periodical has a magazine-like format that is essentially identical to

840-575: The board until 1982, succeeded in that capacity by his son Donald R. Dwight . During the time that he was the Transcript-Telegram's publisher, William Dwight Jr. would give the paper a platform on the international stage. In 1950, the New York Times would report that representatives from Argentina, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Australia, India, Pakistan, China, South Africa, and

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880-420: The daily newspaper's demise, Newspapers of New England reopened the T-T as a group of four free-circulation, tabloid -format weekly newspapers —a weekly Transcript-Telegram in Holyoke, and In South Hadley-Granby , In Chicopee and In Westfield , covering four of the largest cities and towns in the old daily T-T circulation area. The Chicopee and Westfield weeklies had actually been established about

920-600: The departure of the T-T , Holyoke lost its only newspaper of record . Daily newspaper readers in the city turned to newspapers in nearby cities, which increased their coverage of Holyoke: the Union-News of Springfield , now called The Republican ; and the Daily Hampshire Gazette of Northampton . Founded as the Hampden Freeman , the debut issue of Holyoke's first newspaper was printed by proprietor William L. Morgan on September 1, 1849, when

960-495: The editorship. This name would prove short-lived and by January 7, 1854 following some period of intermittent publication, the paper was again renamed the Holyoke Weekly Mirror , changing hands under the proprietorship of Lilley & Pratt, and leaving its Whig allegiance, in favor of a stated non-partisanship. Within the decade, the paper's ownership would again change to Wheelock & Pratt, with Myron C. Pratt as

1000-402: The eventual sole proprietor by 1858. The Holyoke Transcript first published under that name on April 11, 1863, with the ownership of Henry M. Burt and Charles M. Lyman (Burt & Lyman). By 1870 Burt's partnership had been assumed by Edwin L. Kirtland, and by 1872 Lyman had sold his share to William S. Loomis. In 1881, one William G. Dwight, having just graduated from Amherst College , joined

1040-516: The locale was still known as Ireland Depot. The first editor of the then-weekly paper, a young lawyer named William B. C. Pearsons , would go on to serve as the city's first mayor a quarter century later, and in his earliest editorials would describe the New City project of the Associates as the "infant giant of Western Massachusetts, destined to eclipse Lowell". Identified by its name, the paper

1080-459: The newspaper's decline, according to CommonWealth magazine: The new crew had grand journalistic visions, and forgot the Transcript 's local roots, residents say. The publisher sent one reporter to China , another to Poland to cover the labor Solidarity movement. "They saw it as a more metropolitan type daily, a more sophisticated newspaper", said William Dwight, Jr., ... "The result

1120-544: The north who style themselves the Free Soil Party...As men, we extend the hand of friendship to our Democratic readers (and we have a very large number), and wish them all success in private and personal enterprises, but as partisans, we throw the gauntlet in their midst, and in our strength defy them." On January 15, 1853, the paper would be rechristened the Holyoke Freeman with Azro B. F. Hildreth assuming

1160-477: The paper's staff; within a year's time he would assume the shares of Kirtland. Initially a weekly, the story of the daily T-T as it was known in the 20th century began in many ways with William G. Dwight, who oversaw the transfer to daily publishing which began on October 9, 1882. Loomis and Dwight would oversee the conversion of the weekly, by then called the Holyoke Transcript , into a daily but it

1200-469: The selectmen with the request that the canes be presented in a ceremony to the town's oldest living man. The custom was expanded to include a community's oldest women in 1930. More than 500 towns in New England still carry on the Boston Post Cane tradition with the original canes they were awarded in 1909. According to H. W. Fowler , the first recorded instance of the term O. K. was made in

1240-552: The title of publisher at the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript in Peterborough , another NNE-owned newspaper. Photographer Preston Gannaway won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in April 2008, shortly after departing from the Monitor . Gannaway was honored for her work on a project called "Remember Me" chronicling a local woman's death. It was the first time a newspaper in New Hampshire

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1280-583: The versions that accompanied other major newspapers in the early 1900s, featuring the same cover illustration, articles, short stories, serials , and advertisements. In 1909, under the ownership of Edwin Grozier, The Boston Post engaged in its most famous publicity stunt. The paper had 700 ornate, ebony-shafted, gold-capped canes made and contacted the selectmen in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island towns. The Boston Post Canes were given to

1320-507: The world with which the United States is not at war. 2. Passports issued to American citizens who are engaged in gathering and writing news or expressing opinion for American publications should not be restricted so as to ban travel in any country with which this Nation is not at war. 3. Penalties of fine or imprisonment or revocation of the right to travel should not be imposed upon American newspaper or magazine writers, who, at their own risk, choose to pursue their profession in any country in

1360-586: The world with which this Nation is not a[t] war. 4. We respectfully recommend consideration by the President and the Congress of the foregoing principles in connection with the visit of American writers to Red China for the purpose of gather and reporting facts for the information of the American people. With the administration unwavering in its policy, Dwight would continue to work with his contemporaries at

1400-479: Was Dwight who would stay with the publication for 4 more decades after Loomis sold his shares in 1888 to pursue expansion of the Holyoke Street Railway . By 1926 Dwight completed acquisition of the rival Holyoke Telegram daily, lending the combined newspaper the name it would keep until 1993. Dwight died in 1930, and his wife, Minnie Dwight, became publisher. Their son, also named William Dwight,

1440-565: Was a daily newspaper in New England for over a hundred years before its final shutdown in 1956. The Post was founded in November 1831 by two prominent Boston businessmen, Charles G. Greene and William Beals. Edwin Grozier bought the paper in 1891. Within two decades, he had built it into easily the largest paper in Boston and New England. Grozier suffered a total physical breakdown in 1920, and turned over day-to-day control of

1480-528: Was awarded the prize. The Monitor stood out as the smallest paper to win an award that year, with its circulation just a fraction of the next smallest, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel . While 2008 was the first year the Monitor or one of its staff won a Pulitzer, the paper has a number of alums who have been honored, including Jo Becker of The New York Times and Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post , both of whom also won

1520-530: Was named managing editor but he also explored other investments. He founded WHYN radio with Charles DeRose, owner of the Daily Hampshire Gazette . The two also founded WHYN-TV , the Springfield area's second television station, in 1953. They sold the WHYN properties in 1967. Another of William Dwight's purchases would have a profound impact on the T-T 's future. In 1955 he bought and became co-publisher of

1560-534: Was named the Monitor' s publisher in 2010. In early 2013, Mark Travis, who had spent more than two decades at the paper as a reporter and editor, succeeded Miller as publisher. In June 2013, Travis also became editor. Travis left his dual roles at the paper in February 2014, with David Sangiorgio stepping in as acting publisher. Heather McKernan replaced Sangiorgio as publisher in May 2017; she also continued to hold

1600-400: Was staunchly abolitionist , with its views explained with brevity in an editorial on March 23, 1850— "To our Whig friends we offer our kindest wishes and zealous support, and we shall sustain, as well as we may, the principles of the great and national Whig party. We are opposed to the extension of slavery into the new territories, and we are as much opposed to the policy of certain leaders at

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