The ''Manchester Express'' was a

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Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The ...

New Hampshire New Hampshire is a U.S. state, 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 t ...

, United States. The paper began publication as ''The Manchester Daily Express'' on May 22, 2006, and was published five days a week until February 27, 2008. The paper was then published on a weekly basis. The January 4, 2009, issue was the final issue. Modeled on free daily commuter papers in larger cities, publisher Jody Reese wrote in a front-page article on the final day of daily production that the paper was unable to generate enough advertisement revenue to support daily publication. The paper also laid off two employees. The Manchester Express was owned by Quality of Life Publications, the parent company of

Hippo Press HippoPress is the publisher of the free weekly newspaper ''Hippo'', based in Manchester, New Hampshire. ''Hippo'', which is independently owned by Jody Reese, Jeff Rapsis and Dan Szczesny, started in January 2001. In 2004 it launched a second ed ...

, which also produces the free arts and entertainment weekly paper, ''The Hippo,'' and other local publications. The Express was printed at the presses of

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'' ...

. The paper had a circulation of 12,000 in 2006.

References

External links

Official website

Concord Monitor: Manchester's second daily paper debuts

Manchester Daily Express, Feb. 27, 2008. ''Daily Express changes to weekly schedule, tomorrow.''
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Manchester Daily Express, Jan. 4, 2009. ''Manchester Express publishes final edition.''
Manchester, New Hampshire Newspapers published in New Hampshire Hillsborough County, New Hampshire