Editing Concord Monitor

{{Short description|Daily newspaper in New Hampshire, US}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name                = Concord Monitor
| image               = Concord Monitor logo.png
| caption             = 
| type                = [[Daily newspaper]]
| format              = [[Broadsheet]]
| foundation          = 1864
| ceased publication  = 
| price               = 
| owners              = [[Newspapers of New England]]
| general manager     = 
| publisher            = Steve Leone
| language            = 
| political           = 
| headquarters        = 1 Monitor Drive, [[Concord, New Hampshire]] 03302, U.S.
| ISSN                = 
| oclc                = 10828908
| website             = [http://www.concordmonitor.com concordmonitor.com]
}}

The '''''Concord Monitor''''' is the daily newspaper for [[Concord, New Hampshire|Concord]], the state capital of [[New Hampshire]]. It also covers surrounding towns in [[Merrimack County, New Hampshire|Merrimack County]], most of [[Belknap County, New Hampshire|Belknap County]], as well as portions of [[Grafton County, New Hampshire|Grafton]], [[Rockingham County, New Hampshire|Rockingham]] and [[Hillsborough County, New Hampshire|Hillsborough]] counties. The ''Monitor'' has several times been named as one of the best small papers in America and in April 2008, became a [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning paper, when photographer [[Preston Gannaway]] was honored for feature photography.<ref name="pulitzer.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/preston-gannaway|title=Preston Gannaway of Concord (NH) Monitor|website=www.pulitzer.org}}</ref>

After publishing seven days a week for decades, starting in March 2024, it ceased print publication on Sundays.<ref>[https://www.concordmonitor.com/Concord-Monitor-53977648 Concord Monitor: "Starting in March, one less printed paper plus more digital features " 12 Feb. 2024]</ref>

==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>

==Awards and honors==
Photographer Preston Gannaway won the 2008 [[Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography]] in April 2008, shortly after departing from the ''Monitor''.<ref name="pulitzer.org"/> Gannaway was honored for her work on a project called "Remember Me" chronicling a local woman's death.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

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]]''.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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 <ref>{{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}}</ref> and ''[[Time magazine|Time]]'' magazine has named it one of "America's best newspapers".<ref>[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.</ref>

==Notable people==
*[[Jo Becker]], former writer, and current ''New York Times'' reporter
*[[William E. Chandler]], U.S. Senator and [[United States Secretary of the Navy|Secretary of the Navy]], owner and editor of the ''Monitor'' for 40 years<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[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<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[Steven Pearlstein]], former writer, and current ''[[The Washington Post|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 (writer)|Mike Pride]], editor emeritus and later administrator of the [[Pulitzer Prize]]s from 2014 to 2017
*Margot Sanger-Katz, former reporter and current ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' health policy reporter

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

==See also==

{{portal|New Hampshire}}
*[[New Hampshire State House press]]
* ''[[Foster's Daily Democrat]]''
* ''[[New Hampshire Union Leader]]''
* ''[[Telegraph of Nashua]]''
* ''[[The Portsmouth Herald]]''

==References==
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==External links==
*{{official website|http://www.concordmonitor.com }}

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