Concord Monitor
Daily newspaper in capital city of New Hampshire, US
Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Newspapers of New England |
Publisher | Steve Leone |
Founded | 1864 |
Headquarters | 1 Monitor Drive, Concord, New Hampshire 03302, U.S. |
OCLC number | 10828908 |
Website | concordmonitor.com |
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 a Pulitzer Prize winning paper, when photographer Preston Gannaway was honored for feature photography. [1]
History
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 the Republican Press Association which also published a paper named the Independent Statesman . [2] 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 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 . [3]
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. [ citation needed ]
Its 2004 circulation was 22,000 daily, 23,000 Sundays. More recent figures put the daily circulation around 20,000. [4]
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 . [5] Brown retired in 2009 and was replaced by Aaron Julien, George W. Wilson's son-in-law. [6] John Winn Miller, former publisher of The Olympian of Olympia, Wash., was named the Monitor' s publisher in 2010. [7]
In early 2013, Mark Travis, who had spent more than two decades at the paper as a reporter and editor, succeeded Miller as publisher. [8] In June 2013, Travis also became editor. [9] Travis left his dual roles at the paper in February 2014, with David Sangiorgio stepping in as acting publisher. [10] Heather McKernan replaced Sangiorgio as publisher in May 2017; she also continued to hold the title of publisher at the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript in Peterborough , another NNE-owned newspaper. [11]
Awards and honors
Photographer Preston Gannaway won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in April 2008, shortly after departing from the Monitor . [1] Gannaway was honored for her work on a project called "Remember Me" chronicling a local woman's death. [12]
It was the first time a newspaper in New Hampshire 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 . [13]
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 the award in 2008.
In 1999, the Columbia Journalism Review said that the Monitor was the best small paper in America [14] and Time magazine has named it one of "America's best newspapers". [15]
Notable people
- Jo Becker , former writer, and current New York Times reporter
- William E. Chandler , U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Navy , owner and editor of the Monitor for 40 years [16]
- Kate Davidson , former reporter and current Morning Money newsletter writer for Politico
- Preston Gannaway , a photographer awarded a 2008 Pulitzer Prize for her work while at the Monitor
- Dan Habib , former photo editor and current documentary filmmaker
- Sarah Koenig , former writer, current public radio personality, producer of This American Life and executive producer and host of the podcast Serial (podcast) .
- James M. Langley , former editor and U.S. ambassador to Pakistan
- George H. Moses , former editor, later a United States Senator from New Hampshire [17]
- Steven Pearlstein , former writer, and current Washington Post columnist
- Edward Nathan Pearson , former city editor of the Concord Evening Monitor and New Hampshire Secretary of State from 1899 to 1915
- Mike Pride , editor emeritus and later administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes from 2014 to 2017
- Margot Sanger-Katz , former reporter and current New York Times health policy reporter
Prices
The Concord Monitor prices are: $1.50 daily, $3.00 Sunday.
See also
References
- 1 2 "Preston Gannaway of Concord (NH) Monitor" . www.pulitzer.org .
- ↑ Willey, George Franklyn (1903). State Builders; An Illustrated Historical and Biographical Record of the State of New Hampshire at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century . Manchester NH: New Hampshire Pub. Corp. pp. 203 . OCLC 7566342 .
- ↑ "William Dwight, 92, Holyoke Publisher". Obituary. Union-News , Springfield, Mass., June 5, 1996.
- ↑ Nationwide Advertising.com: Concord Monitor , figures for an undetermined date, accessed February 5, 2007.
- ↑ "AllBusiness: Unexpected Error Condition" . Archived from the original on 6 March 2011 . Retrieved 25 October 2008 .
- ↑ " 'Monitor' group president retires," Concord Monitor, January 8, 2009" . Archived from the original on 21 May 2013 . Retrieved 12 October 2011 .
- ↑ " 'Monitor' gets new publisher" . Concord Monitor . 24 August 2010.
- ↑ "Mark Travis, former Monitor reporter and editor, to take on publisher role in January" . Concord Monitor . Retrieved 9 September 2015 .
- ↑ "A (partial) retirement and a restructuring at the top" . Concord Monitor . Retrieved 9 September 2015 .
- ↑ " 'Monitor' publisher Mark Travis leaving for internet startup" . Concord Monitor . 25 February 2014. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021.
- ↑ Brooks, David (19 April 2017). " 'Monitor' names new publisher" . Concord Monitor . Retrieved 27 April 2020 .
- ↑ Remember me [ dead link ]
- ↑ "NH news, sports, opinion & photos – Concord Monitor" . concordmonitor.com . Archived from the original on 10 April 2008 . Retrieved 9 September 2015 .
- ↑ "San Antonio Attorneys" . San Antonio Attorneys .
- ↑ Concord Monitor: History Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine , Retrieved February 5, 2007.
- ↑ "William Eaton Chandler, 28 December 1835 - 30 November 1917" . Naval History and Heritage Command . Retrieved 28 May 2022 .
- ↑ "GEORGE H. MOSES, 75, EX-SENATOR, DEAD; Member of Upper House From New Hampshire for 14 Years --Led Fight on League" . The New York Times . 21 December 1944. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 8 October 2019 .
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