''The Greenfield Recorder'' is an American

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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

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. As the Greenfield area's only

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, ''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