The Daily News Tribune

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The Daily News Tribune
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) GateHouse Media
PublisherKirk A. Davis
EditorBrad Spiegel
Founded1863, as Waltham News Tribune
Ceased publicationAugust 31, 2010
Headquarters738A Main Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02451
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Circulation 4,931 daily in 2007 [1]
Website dailynewstribune.com

The Daily News Tribune (formerly called the News-Tribune and the Waltham Evening News) was an afternoon daily newspaper in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States, covering that city and the neighboring city of Newton.

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In its last years, the Tribune was managed and printed by The MetroWest Daily News , and owned by Community Newspaper Company, a division of GateHouse Media. In 2010, the Tribune printed its last daily edition, and was replaced by a weekly newspaper called the Waltham News Tribune. It no longer covers Newton.

History

By 1980, the News-Tribune was part of a five-paper chain, Transcript Newspapers Inc., that included the Daily Transcript of Dedham and three weekly newspapers in West Roxbury-Roslindale (neighborhoods of Boston), Newton and Needham (suburbs west of Boston). [2]

Between August 1984 and March 1986, the company was sold four times: to Gillett Communications in 1984; then to Thomson Newspapers that December; in April 1985 to William Dean Singleton (head of MediaNews Group) [3] -- and eventually, in 1986, to Harte-Hanks, which combined it with the Middlesex News to form News-Transcript Group. [4]

News-Transcript, a chain of three dailies and several weekly newspapers stretching from Boston west to Framingham, Massachusetts, remained a Harte-Hanks property until 1994, when the company continued its divestment of print properties by selling the Massachusetts papers to Fidelity Investments' Community Newspaper Company, already the publisher of dozens of weeklies in the Boston suburbs. [5]

A 1999 fire destroyed the News-Tribune office at 99 Moody Street, Waltham, but the paper continued to publish, initially settling in CNC's Needham headquarters before returning to a new office in Waltham. [6]

CNC changed the newspaper's name, in 1999, to The Daily News Tribune, to emphasize the paper's connections its sister papers.

In 2000, Fidelity sold CNC to the publisher of the Boston Herald . [7] The new owner instituted a content-sharing arrangement between CNC and the Herald, resulting in a regular stream of Daily News stories appearing in the Boston newspaper.

That arrangement continued for a time after the Herald sold CNC to Liberty Group Publishing (later renamed GateHouse Media) in 2006. [8]

After converting The Daily News Transcript to a weekly newspaper in 2009, GateHouse made a similar move with its Waltham property in August 2010, adopting a semiweekly printing schedule for the renamed Waltham News Tribune, and focusing that paper's coverage on its home city. GateHouse continued to cover Newton via the Newton Tab, a weekly newspaper that CNC had owned since 1992. [9]

One year later, in July 2011, the Waltham News Tribune printed its final Tuesday edition, converting to once-a-week publication on Fridays. [10]

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