Concord Monitor

The Monitor has been published continuously since 1864, under a variety of names, including the Evening Monitor, and owners. In the late 19th century it was owned by a publishing company called the Republican Press Association which also published a paper named the Independent Statesman.{{cite book| last = Willey| first = George Franklyn| title = State Builders; An Illustrated Historical and Biographical Record of the State of New Hampshire at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century| pages = [https://archive.org/details/statebuildersan01compgoog/page/n228 203]| publisher = New Hampshire Pub. Corp| location = Manchester NH| year = 1903| url = https://archive.org/details/statebuildersan01compgoog |oclc=7566342}} Its masthead calls it the Concord Monitor and New Hampshire Patriot, although the Monitor name is the only one in widespread use. James M. Langley, who had acquired both publications in the 1920s, was responsible for the merger.

William Dwight, publisher of the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram in Massachusetts, bought the Monitor from Langley in 1961, becoming its publisher. When he retired in 1975, his son-in-law George W. Wilson took over both the Monitor and Newspapers of New England Inc., the holding company of Dwight's newspapers in Concord, Holyoke and Greenfield, Massachusetts."William Dwight, 92, Holyoke Publisher". Obituary. Union-News, Springfield, Mass., June 5, 1996.

The Monitor has been flagship of this chain — now encompassing four dailies and three weeklies in New Hampshire and Massachusetts — since 1993, when the Transcript-Telegram folded.{{Citation needed|date=August 2017}}

Its 2004 circulation was 22,000 daily, 23,000 Sundays. More recent figures put the daily circulation around 20,000.[http://www.nationwideadvertising.com/adinconnewha.html Nationwide Advertising.com: Concord Monitor], figures for an undetermined date, accessed February 5, 2007.

In 2005, George W. Wilson retired as president of Newspapers of New England. Tom Brown became president of NNE, and Geordie Wilson, George W. Wilson's son, became publisher of the Monitor.{{Cite web |url=http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services-miscellaneous-business/4679383-1.html |title=AllBusiness: Unexpected Error Condition |access-date=2008-10-25 |archive-date=2011-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110306005423/http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services-miscellaneous-business/4679383-1.html |url-status=dead }} Brown retired in 2009 and was replaced by Aaron Julien, George W. Wilson's son-in-law.{{cite web|url=http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/monitor-group-president-retires|title='Monitor' group president retires," Concord Monitor, January 8, 2009.|access-date=October 12, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521202224/http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/monitor-group-president-retires|archive-date=May 21, 2013|url-status=dead}} John Winn Miller, former publisher of The Olympian of Olympia, Wash., was named the Monitor's publisher in 2010.{{cite news|url=http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/monitor-gets-new-publisher|title= 'Monitor' gets new publisher|work=Concord Monitor|date= August 24, 2010}}

In early 2013, Mark Travis, who had spent more than two decades at the paper as a reporter and editor, succeeded Miller as publisher.{{cite web|url=http://www.concordmonitor.com/news/work/business/3367886-95/monitor-travis-publisher-news|title=Mark Travis, former Monitor reporter and editor, to take on publisher role in January|work=Concord Monitor|access-date=9 September 2015}} In June 2013, Travis also became editor.{{cite web|url=http://www.concordmonitor.com/home/6975916-95/a-partial-retirement-and-a-restructuring-at-the-top|title=A (partial) retirement and a restructuring at the top|work=Concord Monitor|access-date=9 September 2015}} Travis left his dual roles at the paper in February 2014, with David Sangiorgio stepping in as acting publisher.{{Cite news |date=2014-02-25 |title='Monitor' publisher Mark Travis leaving for internet startup |work=Concord Monitor |url=https://www.concordmonitor.com/Archive/2014/02/travisannounce-cmbiz-022414 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507031900/https://www.concordmonitor.com/Archive/2014/02/travisannounce-cmbiz-022414 |archive-date=2021-05-07}} Heather McKernan replaced Sangiorgio as publisher in May 2017; she also continued to hold the title of publisher at the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript in Peterborough, another NNE-owned newspaper.{{Cite news|last=Brooks|first=David|url=https://www.concordmonitor.com/publisher-monitor-newspapers-new-england-9378372|title='Monitor' names new publisher|date=April 19, 2017|work=Concord Monitor|access-date=April 27, 2020}}

Photographer Preston Gannaway won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in April 2008, shortly after departing from the Monitor. Gannaway was honored for her work on a project called "Remember Me" chronicling a local woman's death.{{Cite web |url=http://www.conmon.com/slideshow/REMEMBERME/ |title=Remember me |access-date=10 April 2008 |archive-date=12 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080412035335/http://www.conmon.com/slideshow/REMEMBERME/ |url-status=dead }}

It was the first time a newspaper in New Hampshire was awarded the prize. The Monitor stood out as the smallest paper to win an award that year, with its circulation just a fraction of the next smallest, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.{{cite web|url=http://concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080407/BREAK/225705999/1030|title=NH news, sports, opinion & photos – Concord Monitor|work=concordmonitor.com|access-date=9 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410165828/http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080407%2FBREAK%2F225705999%2F1030|archive-date=10 April 2008|url-status=dead}}

While 2008 was the first year the Monitor or one of its staff won a Pulitzer, the paper has a number of alums who have been honored, including Jo Becker of The New York Times and Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post, both of whom also won the award in 2008.

In 1999, the Columbia Journalism Review said that the Monitor was the best small paper in America {{cite web|url=https://attorneyrandyturner.tumblr.com/post/169269254927/san-antonio-personal-injury-lawyers-on-your-side|title=San Antonio Attorneys|website=San Antonio Attorneys}} and Time magazine has named it one of "America's best newspapers".[http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/misc?Url=/sections/services/history.pbs Concord Monitor: History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183240/http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/misc?Url=%2Fsections%2Fservices%2Fhistory.pbs |date=2016-03-03 }}, Retrieved February 5, 2007.

• Jo Becker, former writer, and current New York Times reporter
• William E. Chandler, U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Navy, owner and editor of the Monitor for 40 years{{cite web |title=William Eaton Chandler, 28 December 1835 - 30 November 1917 |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/research-guides/z-files/zb-files/zb-files-c/chandler-william-eaton.html |access-date=28 May 2022 |website=Naval History and Heritage Command}}
• Kate Davidson, former reporter and current Morning Money newsletter writer for Politico
• Preston Gannaway, a photographer awarded a 2008 Pulitzer Prize for her work while at the Monitor
• Dan Habib, former photo editor and current documentary filmmaker
• Sarah Koenig, former writer, current public radio personality, producer of This American Life and executive producer and host of the podcast Serial (podcast).
• James M. Langley, former editor and U.S. ambassador to Pakistan
• George H. Moses, former editor, later a United States Senator from New Hampshire{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1944/12/21/archives/george-h-moses-75-exsenator-dead-member-of-upper-house-from-new.html |title=GEORGE H. MOSES, 75, EX-SENATOR, DEAD; Member of Upper House From New Hampshire for 14 Years --Led Fight on League |date=1944-12-21 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-10-08 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
• Steven Pearlstein, former writer, and current Washington Post columnist
• Edward Nathan Pearson, former city editor of the Concord Evening Monitor and New Hampshire Secretary of State from 1899 to 1915
• Mike Pride, editor emeritus and later administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes from 2014 to 2017
• Margot Sanger-Katz, former reporter and current New York Times health policy reporter

The Concord Monitor prices are: $1.50 daily, $3.00 Sunday.

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