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North Shore Weeklies Inc., based in Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA, was a newspaper publisher on Massachusetts' North Shore and one of the original subsidiaries of Community Newspaper Company (CNC), now the largest publisher of weeklies in Massachusetts. William S. Wasserman Jr. founded the company in 1958, running it independently until selling in 1986 to a group underwritten by Fidelity Investments, which founded CNC. North Shore Weeklies was dissolved in 1996; most of its newspapers are still part of CNC, now a division of GateHouse Media. == Wasserman == Under Wasserman, who began the company with his purchase of the ''Amesbury News'' in 1958, the company gradually expanded until it included nine weekly newspapers down the seacoast toward Boston. In the 12 months ending August 31, 1986, the company made US$7.6 million in revenues and turned a profit.〔Adams, Jane Meredith. "North Shore Weeklies Inc. Is Sold". ''The Boston Globe'', page 69, October 9, 1986.〕 After selling the papers, Wasserman gave US$700,000 out of the proceeds in bonuses to his staff, distributed based on how long they had worked for the company. Some employees were given as much as US$20,000.〔 But Wasserman could be a severe businessman, too. For 2½ years in the 1980s, he competed for readers in two North Shore towns with former employee Joseph Fenton, who bought an independent newspaper in Ipswich—home of North Shore Weeklies' main offices, at the time—in 1981. A year later, Fenton started a new paper in Georgetown, and Wasserman responded by following him there, with the ''Georgetown Record''. Both publishers said they were being unfairly targeted by the other.〔Richard, Ray. "A War? It's News in Georgetown". ''The Boston Globe'', page 1, November 12, 1982.〕 In 1983, Wasserman emerged the winner of the "Georgetown Newspaper War", purchasing Fenton's ''Ipswich Today'' and ''Georgetown Weekly''.〔"New England Briefs: 2 North Shore Weeklies Purchased by Publisher". ''The Boston Globe'', page 1, October 18, 1983.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「North Shore Weeklies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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