Valley News

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Valley News
Valley News logo.svg
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Newspapers of New England
PublisherDan McClory
EditorMatt Clary
Founded1952
Headquarters24 Interchange Drive,
West Lebanon, New Hampshire
ISSN 1072-6179
Website vnews.com

The Valley News is a six-day morning daily newspaper based in Lebanon, New Hampshire, covering the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont, in the United States.

Contents

Although the newspaper's offices are in Lebanon, its mailing address is a post office box in nearby White River Junction, Vermont. The newspaper covers communities on both sides of the Connecticut River, which forms the state line. [1] The paper's circulation is 16,522. [2] [3] The current editor is Matt Clary. [4]

The paper was founded in 1952 by Allan Churchill Butler. [5] Shortly thereafter he sold the paper to James D. Ewing and Walter Paine. [6] Paine would serve as editor and publisher of the paper for twenty-four years. [7] In 2012, the Valley News, the Nashua Telegraph , and PolitiFact established "PolitiFact '12 NH," a fact-checking effort focused on the candidates in the 2012 United States presidential election. At the time, Jeffrey Good was the Valley News' editor. [8]

Newspapers of New England, a private company based in Concord, New Hampshire, bought the Valley News in 1981 and has owned it since. [9]

Until the end of 2023, the Valley News was published seven days a week. The Sunday Valley News was last published December 31, 2023. Starting on January 6, 2023, a Weekend edition was published on Saturday. It included the recurring items from both Saturday and Sunday, e.g., the daily comics for Saturday and the usual Sunday comics.

Editorial positions

The Valley News has editorialized in support of same-sex marriage. [10]

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References

  1. Valley News Rate Card No. 45, September 1, 2006. Accessed February 5, 2007.
  2. "White River Junction Valley". mondotimes. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
  3. "Valley news". ISSN   1072-6179 . Retrieved 2018-10-28.
  4. Staff Report (June 15, 2021). "'Valley News' names new editor". Valley News. Retrieved February 2, 2022.
  5. Ghiglione, Loren; Bagdikian, Ben H. (1973), Evaluating the Press, Southbridge, Massachusetts: New England Daily Newspaper Survey, OCLC   859534
  6. Interview with James D. Ewing by Mike Richard (PDF), Lewiston, Maine: The Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College, August 16, 1999, archived by WebCite here
  7. Paine, Walter (2006), Cousin John: The Story of a Boy and a Small Smart Pig , Southbridge, Massachusetts: Bunker Hill Publishing, p.  (Author bio on dust jacket), ISBN   978-1-59373-057-4, OCLC   122930106
  8. "Who Needs Perspective When You Have NOW?". National Journal. June 27, 2011.
  9. "William Dwight, 92, Holyoke publisher". Obituary. Union-News, Springfield, Mass., June 5, 1996.
  10. Mello, Michael (2004), Legalizing Gay Marriage, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, p. 67, ISBN   978-1-59213-079-5, OCLC   53896741