Editing Concord Monitor (section)

==History==
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''.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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, Massachusetts|Holyoke]] and [[Greenfield, Massachusetts]].<ref>"William Dwight, 92, Holyoke Publisher". Obituary. ''Union-News'', Springfield, Mass., June 5, 1996.</ref>

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.<ref name="circ">[http://www.nationwideadvertising.com/adinconnewha.html Nationwide Advertising.com: Concord Monitor], figures for an undetermined date, accessed February 5, 2007.</ref>

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''.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> Brown retired in 2009 and was replaced by Aaron Julien, George W. Wilson's son-in-law.<ref>{{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}}</ref> John Winn Miller, former publisher of ''The Olympian'' of Olympia, Wash., was named the ''Monitor'''s publisher in 2010.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/monitor-gets-new-publisher|title= 'Monitor' gets new publisher|work=Concord Monitor|date= August 24, 2010}}</ref>

In early 2013, Mark Travis, who had spent more than two decades at the paper as a reporter and editor, succeeded Miller as publisher.<ref>{{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}}</ref>  In June 2013, Travis also became editor.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Travis left his dual roles at the paper in February 2014, with David Sangiorgio stepping in as acting publisher.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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, New Hampshire|Peterborough]], another NNE-owned newspaper.<ref>{{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}}</ref>