Bennington Banner
{{Short description|Newspaper in Bennington, Vermont}}
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| name = The Bennington Banner
| image = Bennington Banner logo.png
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| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Broadsheet
| foundation = 1841
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| owners = Vermont News and Media LLC
| publisher = Jordan Brechenser
| editor = Managing Editor: Tim Wassberg
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| language = English
| political =
| headquarters = 423 Main Street
Bennington, Vermont 05201
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| website = {{URL|benningtonbanner.com}}
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The Bennington Banner is a daily newspaper published in Bennington, Vermont. The paper covers local, national, and world news. It is distributed throughout Southwestern Vermont and eastern New York (Rensselaer and Washington Counties). The paper is owned by Vermont News and Media LLC and is published Monday through Friday, plus a weekend edition.{{Cite web| title = About Us| work = The Berkshire Eagle| access-date = 2017-10-25| url = http://www.berkshireeagle.com/eagle-about-us.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180625111459/http://www.berkshireeagle.com/eagle-about-us.html| archive-date = 2018-06-25| url-status = dead}}
History
Vermont newspaperman and Republican politician, Frank E. Howe, bought two Bennington, Vermont, weeklies in 1902 and merged them to form the daily Bennington Banner, of which he was publisher and editor.
Around 1960–1961, the Bennington Banner was purchased by Lawrence Miller and his brother Donald, the sons of Kelton B. Miller, a politician and newspaperman in nearby Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Kelton's grandson, also named Kelton Miller, served as publisher of the Banner from 1977 until 1995, at which point it was purchased by MediaNews Group.{{Cite web|title=About Us|url=https://www.benningtonbanner.com/site/about.html|access-date=2021-01-16|website=Bennington Banner|language=en}}{{Cite web|agency=Associated Press|title=Former Bennington Banner publisher dies|url=https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/former-bennington-banner-publisher-dies/article_025e310f-c4ed-5cbc-ac88-486d3562b2d2.html|access-date=2021-01-16|website=Rutland Herald|date=12 May 2007 |language=en}}{{Cite news|last=Ap|date=1991-04-02|title=Lawrence K. Miller; Publisher, 83 (Published 1991)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/02/obituaries/lawrence-k-miller-publisher-83.html|access-date=2021-01-16|issn=0362-4331}}
Under MediaNews Group ownership, Jim Therrien served as managing editor of the Banner from 2006 to 2012.{{cite web |title=Jim Therrien, Author at VTDigger |url=https://vtdigger.org/author/jim-therrien/ |website=VTDigger|date=22 October 2018 }} MediaNews Group eventually combined with other entities and re-branded as Digital First Media.
In 2016, the Banner and other newspapers in the New England Newspapers Inc. portfolio were purchased from Digital First Media by a group of Berkshire County, Massachusetts-based investors. In May 2021 the New England Newspapers sold Bennington Banner, Brattleboro Reformer and Manchester Journal to Vermont News and Media LLC
''Freedom from Fear'' painting
A copy of the Bennington Banner is shown in Norman Rockwell's painting
Freedom from Fear, one of the paintings in his Four Freedoms series.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}
Controversy
In early 2007 the Bennington Banner came under fire from The O'Reilly Factor for allegedly not taking an editorial stance on a legal case involving child molestation,BillOreilly.com: [http://www.billoreilly.com/pg/jsp/general/mediadef.jsp "Hall of Shame"] an accusation disputed by the newspaper's editor at the time, Jim Therrien.{{Cite web| title = The O'Reilly Treatment | url = http://www.benningtonbanner.com/columnists/ci_5028977| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070820020128/https://www.benningtonbanner.com/columnists/ci_5028977/| archive-date = 2007-08-20| url-status = dead }}
References
External links
- [http://www.benningtonbanner.com/ The Bennington Banner, Official Site]
- [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn95066012/ Historic Newspaper Pages (1903–1922) on Chronicling America]
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Category:Newspapers published in Vermont
Category:MediaNews Group publications