Traverse City Record-Eagle

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Traverse City Record-Eagle
TypeDaily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) CNHI
PublisherPaul J. Heidbreder
EditorRebecca Pierce
Founded1858 as the Grand Traverse Herald [1]
Headquarters120 West Front Street, Traverse City, Michigan 49685, United States
Circulation 17,209 Daily
21,846 Sunday(as of 2022) [2]
Website record-eagle.com

The Traverse City Record-Eagle is a daily morning newspaper based in Traverse City, Michigan. It calls itself "Northern Michigan's Newspaper" [3] and is the newspaper of record for Grand Traverse County.

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History

The newspaper was owned by Dow Jones & Company, also publishers of the Wall Street Journal . On August 28, 2006, Dow Jones announced they were putting the Record-Eagle up for sale, and the paper eventually was purchased by CNHI.

The circulation area of the Record-Eagle covers much of northern Michigan, with a particular emphasis on counties adjacent to Greater Traverse City. In all it services 13 counties -- namely Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Crawford, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Manistee, Missaukee, Otsego and Wexford counties, and limited portions of neighboring counties -- in the northwest lower peninsula. [1]

Associated publications of The Record-Eagle include: community weekly North Coast; the monthly tabloid Grand Traverse Scene; a monthly real estate guide; and specialty sections throughout the year. [1]

While the economy of Michigan as a whole has been characterized as stagnant or declining, the Traverse City area demonstrated significant population growth in the 2000s.

The Traverse City area's economy centers on four-season recreation, retirement living, tourism, higher education, and Native American gaming, and the newspaper covers these concerns. Their editorial board often writes aggressively on environmental issues, with a particular emphasis on the ecology of the Great Lakes, anti-development in the region and liberal political issues.

In October 2005, the Michigan Press Association named the Record-Eagle the "Newspaper of the Year" for newspapers with daily circulations between 15,001 and 40,000. In 2005, the Record-Eagle told the Media Management Center (Northwestern University) that its daily circulation was 29,341. [4]

In 2006, Suburban Newspapers of America named the Record-Eagle's flagship Web site, Record-Eagle.com, the Best Community News Site in its class (newspapers with circulation under 40,000), and also awarded the site Best Site Architecture and Design.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Traverse City Record-Eagle About Us. Archived 2010-10-10 at the Library of Congress Web Archives
  2. "2022-2023 Michigan Press Association Member Directory". Michigan Press Association. 2022-02-01. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  3. Record-Eagle home page.
  4. Readership Institute | Readership | Traverse City Record-Eagle (MI)

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