''The Salem News'' (formerly the ''Salem Evening News'') is an American

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serving southern

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. Although the paper is named for the city of Salem, its offices are now in nearby Danvers, Massachusetts. The newspaper is published Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings by Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company, a subsidiary of CNHI. In addition to its home cities, the ''News'' covers most of southern Essex County, northeast of

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. The paper formerly published separate editions in Beverly and Peabody. The paper's circulation has been inconsistently over 30,000 for years, giving it some 63,000 readers every day.

History

In 1995, the assets of the long-independent ''Salem Evening News'' was bought for US$16.5 million by Ottaway Community Newspapers, a division of

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and owner of two of the ''Evening News'''s chief daily competitors, the evening ''Beverly Times'' (9,000 circulation) and ''Peabody Times'' (3,000 circulation). The ''Evening News'' had a circulation around 36,000 at the time of the sale. Ottaway's Essex County Newspapers division, which also published the '' Gloucester Daily Times'' and ''

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'', moved its headquarters to the ''Evening News'''s Beverly offices. It merged the Salem and Peabody papers into the Beverly Times, and renamed the Beverly paper the Salem News in order to gain a non-union work force. Before this, the Salem News headquarters had been on the corner Washington and Front Street in Salem. Ottaway, which still owns the '' Cape Cod Times'' and '' The Standard-Times'' in southeastern

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, seven years later sold its Essex County holdings, including the Salem paper, to their top competitor. ''

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bought the North Shore chain in 2002, paying US$70 million for the Gloucester, Newburyport and Salem papers. ''Eagle-Tribune'' executives touted the creation of a regional news organization; they also laid off some 45 staffers at the Essex County papers, including the editors of the Newburyport and Salem papers. The ''Eagle-Tribune'' chain was itself bought for an undisclosed amount of money by Community Newspaper Holdings (now CNHI), an

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company, in 2005."Eagle-Tribune Chain Sold to Ala. Newspaper Group". ''The Patriot Ledger'' (Quincy, Mass.), July 28, 2005.

Prices

''The Salem News'' prices are: $1 Monday–Saturday.

References

External links

''Salem News'' homepage

Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company

Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
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