List of defunct Massachusetts newspapers

This is a list of defunct newspapers in Massachusetts, including print and online.

List of defunct newspapers

Assonet

Newspapers published in Assonet, Massachusetts:

• Village Voice^{[ citation needed ]}

Boston

Newspapers published in Boston, Massachusetts:

• American Apollo ^[1]
• The American Herald ^[1]
• The American Journal, and Suffolk Intelligencer ^[1]

The Argus (Boston), 1791

• The Argus ^[1]
• Avatar
• The Boston Chronicle ^[1]
• Boston Courier, 1824–1915
• The Boston Daily Advertiser, 1862 ^[2]
• The Boston Evening-Post, 1735–1775 ^[1]
• Boston Evening Transcript, 1830–1941 ^[3]
• The Boston Evening-post: and the General Advertiser ^[1]
• The Boston Gazette ^[1]
• Boston Gazette, Commercial and Political ^[1]
• The Boston Journal   ^[4]
• The Boston News-Letter ^[1]
• The Boston Post, 1831–1956 ^[5]
• The Boston Post-Boy , 1734–1754, 1757–1775 ^[1]
• The Boston Post-boy & Advertiser ^[1]
• The Boston Price Current and Marine Intelligencer ^[1]
• The Boston Phoenix
• The Boston Record, 1884–1961 ^[6]
• The Boston Transcript
• Boston Traveler, 1845–1967 ^[7]
• The Boston Weekly Advertiser ^[1]
• The Boston Weekly News-letter ^[1]
• Boston Weekly News-letter ^[1]
• The Boston Weekly Post-boy ^[1]

The Censor (Boston), 1772

• The Censor ^[1]
• The Columbian Centinel ^[1]
• The Commercial Bulletin, 1859-1990 ^[8]
• The Constitutional Telegraph ^[1]
• Continental Journal, and Weekly Advertiser ^[1]
• The Courier ^[1]
• The Courier. Boston Evening Gazette and Universal Advertiser ^[1]
• The Courier. Boston Evening Gazette, and General Advertiser ^[1]
• The Courier and General Advertiser ^[1]
• Courier de Boston: affiches, announces, et avis ^{[1] [9] [10]}
• Editorial Humor
• The Evening Post; and the General Advertiser ^[1]
• The Exchange Advertiser ^[1]
• Federal Gazette and Daily Advertiser ^[1]
• Federal Gazette and General Advertiser ^[1]

Federal Orrery (Boston), 1794

• Federal Orrery ^[1]
• Green & Russells Boston Post-boy & Advertiser ^[1]
• The Herald of Freedom ^[1]
• The Independent Advertiser ^[1]
• Independent Chronicle ^[1]
• The Independent Ledger and the American Advertiser ^[1]
• J. Russell's Gazette, Commercial and Political ^[1]
• The Liberator, 1831–1865, abolitionist ^[1]
• The Massachusetts Centinel ^[1]
• The Massachusetts Centinel: and the Republican Journal ^[1]
• The Massachusetts Gazette ^[1]
• The Massachusetts Gazette. And Boston News-letter ^[1]
• The Massachusetts Gazette, and the Boston Post-boy and Advertiser ^[1]
• The Massachusetts Gazette; and the Boston Weekly News-letter ^[1]
• Massachusetts Mercury ^[1]
• Massachusetts Spy ^[1]
• The Mercury ^[1]
• The Morning Chronicle; and the General Advertiser ^[1]
• The New-England Chronicle ^[1]
• The New-England Courant ^[1]

New England Courant (Boston), 1721

New England Weekly Journal (Boston), 1727

• The New England Weekly Journal ^[1]
• Nocturnal Mail. ^[1]
• Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick
• Polar Star and Boston Daily Advertiser ^[1]
• Polar-Star: Boston Daily Advertiser ^[1]
• Russell's Gazette, Commercial and Political ^[1]
• Saturday Evening Herald, and the Washington Gazette ^[1]
• The Times, or, The Evening Entertainer ^[1]
• The Weekly News-letter ^[1]
• The Weekly Rehearsal ^[1]

Brookfield

Newspapers published in Brookfield, Massachusetts:

• The Moral and Political Telegraphie, or, Brookfield Advertiser ^[1]
• The Political Repository, or, Farmer's Journal ^[1]
• The Worcester County Intelligencer, or, Brookfield Advertiser ^[1]
• The Worcester Intelligencer, or, Brookfield Advertiser ^[1]

Cambridge

Newspapers published in Cambridge, Massachusetts:

New England Chronicle (Cambridge), January 4, 1776

• Cambridge Chronicle ^[11]
• The New-England Chronicle, or, The Essex Gazette ^[1]
• 'The Broadside ^{[12] [13]}

Charlestown

Newspapers published in Charlestown, Massachusetts:

• The American Recorder, and the Charlestown Advertiser ^[1]

Dedham

Newspapers published in Dedham, Massachusetts:

Columbian Minerva (Dedham), 1799

• Columbian Minerva ^[1]
• Minerva ^[1]

Greenfield

Newspapers published in Greenfield, Massachusetts:

• Greenfield Gazette ^[1]
• Greenfield Gazette. A Register of Genuine Federalism ^[1]
• Greenfield Gazette. An impartial Register of the Times ^[1]
• Greenfield Gazette, or, Massachusetts and Vermont Telegraphe ^[1]
• The Impartial Intelligencer ^[1]

Haverhill

Newspapers published in Haverhill, Massachusetts:

• Guardian of Freedom ^[1]
• Haverhill Federal Gazette ^[1]
• Impartial Herald ^[1]
• The Observer ^[1]

Holyoke

Newspapers published in Holyoke, Massachusetts:

• The Artisan ^[14]
• Courrier de Holyoke; French language. ^{[15] [16]}
• Der Beobachter; German language, merged into Neu England Rundschau. ^[17]
• Die Biene; German language. ^[18]
• Gwiazda ; Polish language. ^[19]
• Holyoke Democrat. ^{[20] [21]}
• Holyoke Free Press. ^{[22] [23]}
• Holyoke Journal; German language, merged into Neu England Rundschau. ^[17]
• Holyoke Transcript-Telegram ^[24]
• Holyoke Weekly Mirror ^{[25] [26]}
• L'Annexioniste; French language. ^[16]
• La Justice ; French language.
• La Nueva Era; Spanish language. ^[27]
• La Presse; French language. ^[16]
• La Vérité, French language. ^[16]
• Le Défenseur; French language. ^[16]
• Le Progrès, French language. ^[16]
• Le Ralliement; French language. ^{[28] [29]}
• Neu England Rundschau ; German language. ^{[17] [30]}
• Teutonia; German language. ^[17]
• Voice of Greece.; ^[a] Greek language. ^{[31] [32]}
• Zeitgeist; German language. ^[17]

Leominster

Newspapers published in Leominster, Massachusetts:

• Political Focus ^[1]
• The Rural Repository ^[1]
• The Telescope, or American Herald ^[1]

Leominster

Newspapers published in Lowell, Massachusetts:

• The Lowell Courier^{[ citation needed ]}

Nantucket

• The Nantucket Beacon (weekly)

New Bedford

Newspapers published in New Bedford, Massachusetts:

• Columbian Courier ^[1]
• The Medley, or, Newbedford Marine Journal ^[1]

Newburyport

Newspapers published in Newburyport, Massachusetts:

Essex Journal and Merrimack Packet (Newburyport), 1773

• The Essex Journal ^[1]
• The Essex Journal and Merrimack Packet, or, The Massachu-setts and New-Hampshire general Advertiser ^[1]
• The Essex Journal and New-Hampshire Packet ^[1]
• The Essex Journal and the Massachusetts and New-Hampshire General Advertiser ^[1]
• The Essex Journal, or, New-Hampshire Packet ^[1]
• The Essex Journal, or, The Massachusetts and New-Hampshire general Advertiser ^[1]
• The Essex Journal, or, The New-Hampshire Packet and the weekly Advertiser ^[1]
• Impartial Herald ^[1]
• The Morning Star ^[1]
• The Newburyport Herald and Country Gazette ^[1]
• Political Gazette ^[1]

Northampton

Newspapers published in Northampton, Massachusetts:

• Hampshire Gazette ^[1]
• Patriotic Gazette ^[1]

Pittsfield

Newspapers published in Pittsfield, Massachusetts:

Berkshire Chronicle (Pittsfield), 1788

• Berkshire Chronicle ^[1]
• Berkshire Chronicle, and the Massachusetts Intelligencer ^[1]
• The Sun ^[1]

Plymouth

Newspapers published in Plymouth, Massachusetts:

• The Plymouth Journal, and the Massachusetts Advertiser ^[1]
• Plymouth Rock and County Advertiser ^[33]

Provincetown

Newspapers published in Provincetown, Massachusetts:

• Provincetown Advocate ^{[34] [35]}

Salem

Newspapers published in Salem, Massachusetts:

• The American Gazette, or, The Constitutional Journal ^[1]
• The Essex Gazette ^[1]
• The Impartial Register ^[1]
• The Salem Gazette ^[1]
• The Salem Gazette, and General Advertiser ^[1]
• The Salem Gazette, or, Newbury and Marblehead Advertiser ^[1]
• The Salem Impartial Register ^[1]
• The Salem Mercury ^[1]
• The Salem Mercury: Political, Commercial, and Moral ^[1]

Springfield

Newspapers published in Springfield, Massachusetts:

Federal Spy (Springfield), 1792

• Federal Spy ^[1]
• The Federal Spy and Springfield Advertiser ^[1]
• Hampshire and Berkshire Chronicle ^[1]
• The Hampshire Chronicle ^[1]
• The Hampshire Herald ^[1]
• The Hampshire Herald, or, The Weekly Advertiser ^[1]
• The Massachusetts Gazette, or, The General Advertiser ^[1]
• The Massachusetts Gazette, or, The Springfield and North-ampton weekly Advertiser ^[1]

Stockbridge

Newspapers published in Stockbridge, Massachusetts:

Western Star (Stockbridge), 1789

• Andrews's Western Star ^[1]
• The Western Star ^[1]

Taunton

Newspapers published in Taunton, Massachusetts:

• The Taunton Democrat ^[36]
• Union Gazette and Democrat ^[37]
• Taunton Weekly Gazette ^[38]
• The Household Gazette ^[39]

Watertown

Newspapers published in Watertown, Massachusetts:

• The Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal ^[1]

Worcester

Newspapers published in Worcester, Massachusetts:

• American Herald, and the Worcerster Recorder ^[1]
• Haswell's Massachusetts Spy, or, American Oracle of Liberty ^[1]
• The Independent Gazetteer ^[1]
• The Massachusetts Spy, or, American Oracle of Liberty ^[1]
• Thomas's Massachusetts Spy, or, the Worcester Gazette ^[1]
• Worcester Evening Gazette ^{[40] [41]}
• Worcester Telegram ^[42]
• The Worcester Transcript

See also

• List of current newspapers in Massachusetts

Notes

1. Not to be confused with other publications and broadcasting of that name, published by the New England Greek-American Publishing Company, of South Holyoke.

References

1. "Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress: Massachusetts". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
2. Foner, Eric (2010). The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. 4364: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN   978-0-393-06618-0.
3. "About Boston evening transcript. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1872-1941 « Chronicling America « Library of Congress (loc.gov)".
4. Holzer, Harold (February 2015). President Lincoln Assassinated. 445: Library of America. ISBN   978-1598533736.
5. "About Boston post. [volume] ([Boston, Mass.]) 1842-1956 « Chronicling America « Library of Congress (loc.gov)".
6. "About Daily record. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1929–1961 « Chronicling America « Library of Congress (loc.gov)".
7. "About The Boston traveler. (Boston [Mass.]) 1914–1967 « Chronicling America « Library of Congress (loc.gov)".
8. "About The commercial bulletin. (Boston, Mass.) 1859-1990 « Chronicling America « Library of Congress". Chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. 1990-03-23. Retrieved 2018-07-10.
9. Thomas, Isaiah (1874). History of printing in America, 2nd ed . Retrieved 2010-10-21.
10. Brigham, Clarence S. (April 1915). "Bibliography of American newspapers, 1690–1820: part 3: Maryland to Massachusetts (Boston)". Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. 25 (1): 128–293. Retrieved 2010-10-21.
11. "'It's devastating.' As Boston-area weeklies close, towns ponder civic life without local news". Boston Globe. 2022. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
12. "The Broadside (Vol. 6, no. 19), November 8, 1967 (Cover: Arlo Guthrie)". flickr. 5 July 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
13. "The Broadside, November 8, 1967–November 21, 1967". credo.library.umass.edu. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
14. "Item details for The Artisan". U.S. Department of Labor Libraries. OCLC: 39719472; Vol. 1 no. 1 (Apr. 15, 1908) - v. 13, no. 34 (Nov. 26, 1920)
15. "Courrier d'Holyoke, parait le Jeudi de chaque semaine". Courrier de Holyoke. Vol. I, no. 11. December 17, 1874.
16. The Franco-American Centennial Committee; Potvin, Vivian Rainault; Potvin, William H. (June 1973). The Franco-Americans Honor Holyoke's Historic Hundredth; Souvenir Program. Holyoke, Mass.: LaJustice Publishing Company. p. 21.
17. Arndt, Karl J. R.; Olson, May E. (1961). German-American Newspapers and Periodicals, 1732–1955; history and bibliography. Heidelberg: Quelle & Meyer Publishers. pp. 207–208.
18. Elliott Shore; Ken Fones-Wolk; James P. Danky; James Philip Danky, eds. (1992). The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. p. 216.
19. Wepsiec, Jan (1968). Polish American Serial Publications, 1842-1966. pp. 59, 160. OCLC   433340.
20. Warner, Charles F.; Johnson, Clifton, eds. (1891). Picturesque Hampden. Picturesque Massachusetts Series. Vol. Part II - West. Northampton, Mass.: Picturesque Publishing Company. p. 148. OCLC   70679168.
21. The New England Business Directory and Gazetteer. Sampson & Murdoch Company. 1922.
22. "[The Holyoke Free Press]". Beardstown Semi-Weekly Illinoian. Beardstown, Ill. October 27, 1893. p. 1. The Holyoke Free Press, Massachusetts, has abandoned the Democratic Party, and come out squarely for the Republican Party and protection, on account of the present depression, which it attributes to the Democratic victory.
23. "Newspaper Suspends". The American Printer. January 20, 1918. p. 53. Holyoke's weekly newspapers are reduced by one with the suspension of the Holyoke Free Press, until further notice.
24. Fiedler, Tom. "What Happens When a Community Loses its Newspaper?". CommonWealth magazine, Boston, Mass., November 3, 2011.
25. "About Holyoke weekly mirror". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
26. Copeland, Alfred Minot, ed. (1902). "The Press of Holyoke". "Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, Massachusetts. Vol. III. The Century Memorial Publishing Company. pp. 455–461. OCLC   5692695963.
27. Dias, Sandra (August 5, 1991). "New paper speaks another language" (PDF). Holyoke Transcript-Telegram. Holyoke, Mass. p. B1. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 9, 2010 – via Springfield Technical Community College (STCC).
28. Edwin Alden (1886). The Edwin Alden Co's American Newspaper Catalogue, Including Lists of All Newspapers and Magazines Published in the United States and the Canadas. Vol. X. Cincinnati, O.: E. Alden & Company Advertising. p. 147.
29. Sulte, Benjamin; David, Laurent-Olivier; Fryer, C. E. (1908). A History of Quebec. Vol. 2. Canada History Company. p. 843. [Gabriel Marchand, son of would-be Quebec Premier Félix-Gabriel Marchand]...founded a French paper called Le Ralliement, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, which he conducted successfully for about two years, when he returned to Canada to act as secretary to his father, who was at that time Speaker of the Quebec Legislative Assembly.
30. "Two German-Language Papers Near Their End". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. June 26, 1942. p. 7. Holyoke, June—The final issues of the New England Rundschau; a German language paper which has circulated in Western Massachusetts for the past 59 years, and the Staats-Zeitung, a similar paper circulating in Connecticut, are being published this week. They have been published by the Wisly Printing company. Victor Wisly said today that economic forces have worked adversely against the continuance of publication
31. N.W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory. 1922. p. 424.
32. "Weddings: Angelopoulos—Christopoulos". Norwich Morning Bulletin. Norwich, Conn. May 17, 1920. p. 6. ...in the presence of nearly 200 guests who came from Holyoke, Mass., New York, Danielson[ , Conn.], Newar, N. J., Attleboro and Woburn, Mass...The couple were attended by Christ Bress, editor of the Greek weekly newspaper, The Voice of Greece, of Holyoke, Mass., who was best man
33. Plymouth Rock and County Advertiser. Library of Congress. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
34. "Provincetown Advocate (Provincetown, Mass.) 1870-Current". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
35. "After 131 years, a hometown newspaper prints its last issue". Portsmouth Herald. April 15, 2000. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
36. "The Taunton Democrat ([Taunton, Mass.]) 1850-1861". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
37. "Union Gazette and Democrat (Taunton, Mass.) 1862-1874". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
38. "Taunton Weekly Gazette (Taunton, Mass.) 1874-1878". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
39. "The Household Gazette (Taunton, Mass.) 187?-1893". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
40. "Worcester Evening Gazette" (Catalog Record). Library of Congress. Retrieved 3 May 2018. Worcester, Mass. : S.B. Bartholomew & Co., 1866–1869
41. "The Evening gazette; 100 years—a consistent story" (Catalog Record). Library of Congress. 22 June 1966. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
42. "Worcester Telegram" (Catalog Record). Library of Congress. Retrieved 3 May 2018. Worcester, Mass. : Telegram Newspaper Co., 1888–1989

Further reading

• Mary F. Ayer; Albert Matthews (1907), Check-list of Boston newspapers, 1704-1780, Colonial Society of Massachusetts
• "Historical Newspapers", The Official Website of the Executive Office of Administration and Finance, The State of Massachusetts Government
• Van Ness Ingram, John (1912). A Check List of American Eighteenth Century Newspapers in the Library of Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved 2010-10-21.
• O. M. Dickerson (1951). "British Control of American Newspapers on the Eve of the Revolution". The New England Quarterly. 24 (4): 453–468. doi:10.2307/361338. JSTOR   361338.
• Charles E. Clark (1991). "Boston and the Nurturing of Newspapers: Dimensions of the Cradle, 1690-1741". The New England Quarterly. 64 (2): 243–271. doi:10.2307/366123. JSTOR   366123.

External links

• Boston Public Library. "Newspapers".
• Boston Public Library. "Newspaper Directories". Archived from the original on May 8, 2013. (Includes links to online versions of historic directories such as Pettingill's, Rowell's, Hubbard's, etc.)
• Joseph P. Healey Library. "Massachusetts Newspapers". Library Research Guides. University of Massachusetts Boston.
• Northeastern University Libraries. "Journalism Research at Northeastern University Libraries: News". Subject Guides. Boston, MA: Northeastern University. Archived from the original on 2012-07-04.
• "Massachusetts newspapers". NewsLink.org. (Location?): (Publisher?).
• Harvard Library. "Guide to Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes: US Newspaper Sources By State: Massachusetts". Research Guides. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.
• "Directory of New England Newspapers". New England Newspaper and Press Association. Archived from the original on 2012-07-19.
• "US Newspaper Directory: Massachusetts", Chronicling America, Washington DC: US Library of Congress