The Recorder (Massachusetts newspaper)

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The Greenfield Recorder
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Newspapers of New England
PublisherShawn Palmer
EditorDan Crowley
FoundedFebruary 1, 1792 (1792-02-01), as The Impartial Intelligencer
Headquarters14 Hope Street,
Greenfield, Massachusetts 01301, United States
Circulation 7,228(as of 2022) [1]
OCLC number 13663298
Website recorder.com

The Greenfield Recorder is an American daily newspaper published Monday through Saturday mornings in Greenfield, Massachusetts, covering all of Franklin County, Massachusetts. It is owned by Newspapers of New England, which also owns its neighbor to the south, the Daily Hampshire Gazette of Northampton, Massachusetts.

As the Greenfield area's only newspaper of record, The Recorder is the primary source of local news in Franklin County. [2] Originally published in 1792, the paper is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States, and the second oldest daily in Massachusetts after the Daily Hampshire Gazette. [3] [4]

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References

  1. Publishers Statement of Ownership. Statement of Ownership 2022 (Report). 2022.
  2. Recorder 2006 Rate Card, accessed January 27, 2007.
  3. "About". The Impartial Intelligencer. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
  4. "The Oldest Newspaper in Each New England State". New England Historical Society. 2018-08-18. Retrieved 2019-10-20.