The ''Concord Monitor'' is the daily newspaper for
Concord
Concord may refer to:
Meaning "agreement"
* Pact or treaty, frequently between nations (indicating a condition of harmony)
* Harmony, in music
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, the state capital of
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the nor ...
. It also covers surrounding towns in
Merrimack County, most of
Belknap County, as well as portions of
Grafton,
Rockingham and
Hillsborough counties. The ''Monitor'' has several times been named as one of the best small papers in America and in April 2008, became a
Pulitzer Prize winning paper, when photographer
Preston Gannaway
Preston Gannaway, an American photojournalist, won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2008.
Biography and career
Gannaway, a native of North Carolina, grew up in an artistic family. Both her mother and her great-grandmother were artis ...
was honored for feature photography.
History
The ''Monitor'' has been published continuously since 1864, under a variety of names, including the ''Evening Monitor'', and owners. In the late 19th century it was owned by a publishing company called the Republican Press Association which also published a paper named the ''Independent Statesman''. Its masthead calls it the ''Concord Monitor and New Hampshire Patriot'', although the ''Monitor'' name is the only one in widespread use.
James M. Langley, who had acquired both publications in the 1920s, was responsible for the merger.
William Dwight, publisher of the ''
Holyoke Transcript-Telegram
The ''Holyoke Transcript-Telegram'', or ''T‑T'', was an afternoon daily newspaper covering the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States, and adjacent portions of Hampden County and Hampshire County.
Published as a daily since 1882, afte ...
'' in
Massachusetts
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, bought the ''Monitor'' from Langley in 1961, becoming its publisher. When he retired in 1975, his son-in-law George W. Wilson took over both the ''Monitor'' and
Newspapers of New England
Newspapers of New England, Inc. (NNE) is a privately owned publisher of nine daily and weekly newspapers in the U.S. states of Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
The company's flagship publication is the ''Concord Monitor'', in New Hampshire's cap ...
Inc., the holding company of Dwight's newspapers in Concord,
Holyoke
Holyoke is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, that lies between the western bank of the Connecticut River and the Mount Tom Range. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 38,238. Located north of Springfield ...
and
Greenfield, Massachusetts
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.
The ''Monitor'' has been flagship of this chain — now encompassing four dailies and three weeklies in New Hampshire and
Massachusetts
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— since 1993, when the ''Transcript-Telegram'' folded.
Its 2004 circulation was 22,000 daily, 23,000 Sundays. More recent figures put the daily circulation around 20,000.
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figures for an undetermined date, accessed February 5, 2007.
In 2005, George W. Wilson retired as president of Newspapers of New England. Tom Brown became president of NNE, and Geordie Wilson, George W. Wilson's son, became publisher of the ''Monitor''. Brown retired in 2009 and was replaced by Aaron Julien, George W. Wilson's son-in-law. John Winn Miller, former publisher of ''The Olympian'' of Olympia, Wash., was named the ''Monitors publisher in 2010.
In early 2013, Mark Travis, who had spent more than two decades at the paper as a reporter and editor, succeeded Miller as publisher. In June 2013, Travis also became editor. Travis left his dual roles at the paper in February 2014, with David Sangiorgio stepping in as acting publisher. Heather McKernan replaced Sangiorgio as publisher in May 2017; she also continued to hold the title of publisher at the ''
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
The ''Monadnock Ledger-Transcript'' is a twice-weekly newspaper based in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and covering the Monadnock Region. It was formed in September 2006, when the 50-year-old ''Monadnock Ledger'' bought the 150-year-old ''Peterboro ...
'' in
Peterborough
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, another NNE-owned newspaper.
Awards and honors
Photographer Preston Gannaway won the 2008
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography is one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It recognizes a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or phot ...
in April 2008, shortly after departing from the ''Monitor''.
Gannaway was honored for her work on a project called "Remember Me" chronicling a local woman's death.
It was the first time a newspaper in New Hampshire was awarded the prize. The ''Monitor'' stood out as the smallest paper to win an award that year, with its circulation just a fraction of the next smallest, the ''
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel''.
While 2008 was the first year the ''Monitor'' or one of its staff won a Pulitzer, the paper has a number of alums who have been honored, including
Jo Becker
Jo Becker is an American journalist and author and a three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. She works as an investigative reporter for ''The New York Times''.
Work
Becker worked for the '' St. Petersburg Times'', the ''Concord Monitor'' an ...
of ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
'' and
Steven Pearlstein
Steven Pearlstein is an American columnist who wrote on business and the economy in a column published twice weekly in ''The Washington Post''. His tenure at the WaPo ended on March 3, 2021. Pearlstein received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Commentar ...
of ''
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...
,'' both of whom also won the award in 2008.
In 1999, the ''
Columbia Journalism Review
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'' said that the ''Monitor'' was the best small paper in America and ''
Time
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, ...
'' magazine has named it one of "America's best newspapers".
Notable people
*
Jo Becker
Jo Becker is an American journalist and author and a three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. She works as an investigative reporter for ''The New York Times''.
Work
Becker worked for the '' St. Petersburg Times'', the ''Concord Monitor'' an ...
, former writer, and current ''New York Times'' reporter
*
William E. Chandler
William Eaton Chandler (December 28, 1835November 30, 1917), also known as Bill Chandler, was a lawyer who served as United States Secretary of the Navy and as a U.S. Senator from New Hampshire. In the 1880s, he was a member of the Republican "H ...
, U.S. Senator and
Secretary of the Navy
The secretary of the Navy (or SECNAV) is a statutory officer () and the head (chief executive officer) of the Department of the Navy, a military department (component organization) within the United States Department of Defense.
By law, the se ...
, owner and editor of the ''Monitor'' for 40 years
*
Kate Davidson Kate Davidson is an economics news reporter.
Career
, she is a reporter covering business and economics for Oregon Public Broadcasting. Previously she was a contributor to American Public Media's radio program ''Marketplace.''
Davidson covered t ...
, former reporter and current Morning Money newsletter writer for
Politico
''Politico'' (stylized in all caps), known originally as ''The Politico'', is an American, German-owned political journalism newspaper company based in Arlington County, Virginia, that covers politics and policy in the United States and intern ...
*
Preston Gannaway
Preston Gannaway, an American photojournalist, won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2008.
Biography and career
Gannaway, a native of North Carolina, grew up in an artistic family. Both her mother and her great-grandmother were artis ...
, a photographer awarded a 2008
Pulitzer Prize for her work while at the ''Monitor''
*
Dan Habib, former photo editor and current documentary filmmaker
*
Sarah Koenig
Sarah Koenig (; born July 9, 1969 in New York City) is an American journalist, public radio personality, former producer of the television and radio program ''This American Life'', and the host and executive producer of the podcast '' Serial''.
...
, former writer, current public radio personality, producer of ''
This American Life
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'' and executive producer and host of the podcast ''
Serial (podcast)
''Serial'' is an investigative journalism podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig, narrating a nonfiction story over serial (radio and television), multiple episodes. The series was co-created and is co-produced by Koenig and Julie Snyder and developed ...
''.
*
James M. Langley, former editor and U.S. ambassador to
Pakistan
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*
George H. Moses
George Higgins Moses (February 9, 1869December 20, 1944) was a U.S. diplomat and political figure. He served as a United States senator from New Hampshire and was chosen as the Senate's President pro tempore.
Biography
George H. Moses was bor ...
, former editor, later a United States Senator from New Hampshire
*
Steven Pearlstein
Steven Pearlstein is an American columnist who wrote on business and the economy in a column published twice weekly in ''The Washington Post''. His tenure at the WaPo ended on March 3, 2021. Pearlstein received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Commentar ...
, former writer, and current ''
Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large na ...
'' columnist
*
Edward Nathan Pearson
Edward Nathan Pearson (September 7, 1859 – January 26, 1924) was the New Hampshire Secretary of State from 1899 to 1915.
Biography
He was born in West Boscawen, New Hampshire, September 7, 1859, the son of John Couch and Elizabeth S. (Colby ...
, former city editor of the ''Concord Evening Monitor'' and
New Hampshire Secretary of State
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from 1899 to 1915
*
Mike Pride, editor emeritus and later administrator of the
Pulitzer Prizes from 2014 to 2017
*
Margot Sanger-Katz, former reporter and current ''
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' health policy reporter
Prices
The ''Concord Monitor'' prices are: $1.50 daily, $3.00 Sunday.
See also
*
New Hampshire State House press
* ''
Foster's Daily Democrat
''Foster's Daily Democrat'' is a six-day (Monday–Saturday) morning broadsheet newspaper published in Dover, New Hampshire, United States, covering southeast New Hampshire and southwest Maine.
In addition to its Dover headquarters, ''Foster's'' ...
''
* ''
New Hampshire Union Leader
The ''New Hampshire Union Leader'' is a daily newspaper from Manchester, the largest city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. On Sundays, it publishes as the ''New Hampshire Sunday News.''
Founded in 1863, the paper was best known for the cons ...
''
* ''
Telegraph of Nashua
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''
* ''
The Portsmouth Herald
''The Portsmouth Herald'' (and ''Seacoast Weekend'') is a six-day daily newspaper serving greater Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Its coverage area also includes the municipalities of Greenland, New Castle, Newington and Rye, New Hampshire; and Eli ...
''
References
External links
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Publications established in 1864
Concord, New Hampshire
Newspapers published in New Hampshire
1864 establishments in New Hampshire