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''The Salem News'' (formerly the ''Salem Evening News'') is an American daily newspaper serving southern Essex County, Massachusetts. Although the paper is named for the city of Salem, its offices are now in nearby Beverly, Massachusetts. The newspaper is published Monday through Saturday afternoons by Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. In addition to its home cities, the ''News'' covers most of southern Essex County, northeast of Boston. The paper formerly published separate editions in Beverly and Peabody. The paper's circulation has been consistently over 30,000 for years, giving it some 63,000 readers every day.〔(SalemNews.com: FAQ ), accessed July 8, 2007.〕 == 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 Dow Jones & Company and owner of two of the ''Evening News'' Ottaway, which still owns the ''Cape Cod Times'' and ''The Standard-Times'' in southeastern Massachusetts, seven years later sold its Essex County holdings, including the Salem paper, to their top competitor. ''The Eagle-Tribune'' of North Andover 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.〔Gatlin, Greg. "Buyers of N. Shore Papers Ax Top Editors". ''Boston Herald'', May 30, 2002.〕 The ''Eagle-Tribune'' chain was itself bought for an undisclosed amount of money by Community Newspaper Holdings, an Alabama company, in 2005.〔"Eagle-Tribune Chain Sold to Ala. Newspaper Group". ''The Patriot Ledger'' (Quincy, Mass.), July 28, 2005.〕 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「The Salem News」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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