''The Greenfield Recorder'' is an American

daily newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...

published Monday through Saturday mornings in

Greenfield, Massachusetts Greenfield is a city in and the county seat of Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. Greenfield was first settled in 1686. The population was 17,768 at the 2020 census. Greenfield is home to Greenfield Community College, the Pioneer Val ...

, covering all of

Franklin County, Massachusetts Franklin County is a nongovernmental county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of the 2020 census, the population was 71,029, which makes it the least-populous county on the Massachusetts mainland, and the ...

. It is owned by

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 ...

, which also owns its neighbor to the south, the ''

Daily Hampshire Gazette The ''Daily Hampshire Gazette'' is a six-day morning daily newspaper based in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States, and covering all of Hampshire County, southern towns of Franklin County, and Holyoke. The newspaper prints Monday through S ...

'' of

Northampton, Massachusetts The city of Northampton is the county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of Northampton (including its outer villages, Florence and Leeds) was 29,571. Northampton is known as an acade ...

. As the Greenfield area's only

newspaper of record A newspaper of record is a major national newspaper with large circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered authoritative and independent; they are thus "newspapers of record by reputation" and include some of the o ...

, ''The Recorder'' is the primary source of local news in Franklin County. Originally published in 1792, the paper is the one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States, and the second oldest daily in Massachusetts after the ''Daily Hampshire Gazette''.

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* Mass media in Franklin County, Massachusetts Newspapers published in Massachusetts Publications established in 1792 Greenfield, Massachusetts 1792 establishments in Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-newspaper-stub