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{{Short description|Daily newspaper in Massachusetts and New Hampshire}}
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{{Infobox newspaper
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = The Eagle-Tribune
| name = The Eagle-Tribune
| image = [[File:Sunday Eagle-Tribune front page.jpg|200px|border]]
| image = [[File:Sunday Eagle-Tribune front page.jpg|200px|border]]
| caption = December 18, 2011 cover of the<br>''Sunday Eagle-Tribune''
| caption = December 18, 2011 cover of the<br />''Sunday Eagle-Tribune''
| type = [[Daily newspaper]]
| type = [[Daily newspaper]]
| format = [[Broadsheet]]
| format = [[Broadsheet]]
| foundation = 1868, as ''Lawrence Daily Eagle''
| foundation = 1868, as ''Lawrence Daily Eagle''
| ceased publication =
| ceased publication =
| price =
| price =
| owners = [[Community Newspaper Holdings]], Inc.
| owners = [[Community Newspaper Holdings]], Inc.
| publisher = Karen Andreas
| publisher = Jim Falzone
| editor = Tracey Dee Rauh
| editor = Tracey Dee Rauh
| language =
| language =
| political =
| political =
| circulation = 35,397 daily<br />36,904 Sundays in 2012<ref name=circ>{{cite web |url=http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/newsform.asp|title=FAS-FAX Report: Circulation Averages for the Six Months Ended March 31, 2012 |location=Arlington Heights, Ill.|publisher=[[Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America)|Audit Bureau of Circulations]] |accessdate=May 21, 2012}}</ref>
| circulation = 35,397 daily<br />36,904 Sundays
| circulation_date = 2012
| circulation_ref = <ref name=circ>{{cite web |url=http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/newsform.asp|title=FAS-FAX Report: Circulation Averages for the Six Months Ended March 31, 2012 |location=Arlington Heights, Ill.|publisher=[[Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America)|Audit Bureau of Circulations]] |accessdate=May 21, 2012}}</ref>
| headquarters = 100 Turnpike Street,<br />[[North Andover, Massachusetts|North Andover]], Massachusetts 01845, United States
| headquarters = 100 Turnpike Street,<br />[[North Andover, Massachusetts|North Andover]], Massachusetts 01845, United States
| oclc =
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| ISSN = 1084-4708
| ISSN = 1084-4708
| website = {{URL|www.eagletribune.com}}
| website = {{URL|eagletribune.com}}
}}
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== Awards ==
== Awards ==
Despite being a small-town publication, ''The Eagle-Tribune'' has run some extremely notable stories publicizing scandals inside and outside politics. During the late 1980s, ''The Eagle-Tribune'' ran nearly 200 articles on [[Michael Dukakis#Prison furlough program issue|Michael Dukakis]] and the Massachusetts prison [[furlough]] program, with a special focus on [[Willie Horton]]. The series was widely credited for ending furlough for first-degree murderers in Massachusetts, and was awarded a [[Pulitzer Prize]].<ref>[http://www.pulitzer.org/cyear/1988w.html Pulitzer.org: Pulitzer Prize Winners, 1988], accessed July 8, 2007.</ref> During the 1990s, ''The Eagle Tribune'' ran a series of articles titled ''Cracking the Ice: Intrigue and Conflict in the World of Big-Time Hockey'', interviewing nearly 400 current and former players and officials, uncovering corruption inside the [[National Hockey League|NHL]], its [[National Hockey League Players' Association|players' association]], and [[Hockey Canada]], which would lead to the conviction, disbarment, and resignation from the [[Hockey Hall of Fame]] of former NHLPA president [[Alan Eagleson]]. The newspaper's sports editor, Russ Conway, who led the investigation, was a nominated finalist for the [[1992 Pulitzer Prize]] in Beat Reporting for his work and earned the [[Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award]] in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|last=The Pulitzer Prizes|date=|title=1992 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Beat Reporting|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/russ-conway|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-19|website=www.pulitzer.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=1992 Pulitzer Prizes|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1992|url-status=live|access-date=November 19, 2021|website=The Pulitzer Prizes}}</ref> The newspaper’s staff was also a nominated finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting in 1996, for coverage of the [[Malden Mills]] fire and its impact on the community.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Finalist: Staff of The Eagle-Tribune of Lawrence, Mass.|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-83|url-status=live|access-date=November 19, 2011|website=The Pulitzer Prizes}}</ref> The paper won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for its coverage of the drowning deaths of four [[Lawrence, Massachusetts|Lawrence]] boys in the [[Merrimack River]].<ref>[https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-56], accessed March 11, 2019.</ref>
Despite being a small-town publication, ''The Eagle-Tribune'' has run some extremely notable stories publicizing scandals inside and outside politics. During the late 1980s, ''The Eagle-Tribune'' ran nearly 200 articles on [[Michael Dukakis#Prison furlough program issue|Michael Dukakis]] and the Massachusetts prison [[furlough]] program, with a special focus on [[Willie Horton]]. The series was widely credited for ending furlough for first-degree murderers in Massachusetts, and was awarded a [[Pulitzer Prize]].<ref>[http://www.pulitzer.org/cyear/1988w.html Pulitzer.org: Pulitzer Prize Winners, 1988], Retrieved July 8, 2007.</ref> During the 1990s, ''The Eagle Tribune'' ran a series of articles titled ''Cracking the Ice: Intrigue and Conflict in the World of Big-Time Hockey'', interviewing nearly 400 current and former players and officials, uncovering corruption inside the [[National Hockey League|NHL]], its [[National Hockey League Players' Association|players' association]], and [[Hockey Canada]], which would lead to the conviction, disbarment, and resignation from the [[Hockey Hall of Fame]] of former NHLPA president [[Alan Eagleson]]. The newspaper's sports editor, Russ Conway, who led the investigation, was a nominated finalist for the [[1992 Pulitzer Prize]] in Beat Reporting for his work and earned the [[Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award]] in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|last=The Pulitzer Prizes|date=|title=1992 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Beat Reporting|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/russ-conway|access-date=2021-11-19|website=www.pulitzer.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=1992 Pulitzer Prizes|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1992|access-date=November 19, 2021|website=The Pulitzer Prizes}}</ref> The newspaper’s staff was also a nominated finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting in 1996, for coverage of the [[Malden Mills]] fire and its impact on the community.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Finalist: Staff of The Eagle-Tribune of Lawrence, Mass.|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-83|access-date=November 19, 2011|website=The Pulitzer Prizes}}</ref> The paper won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for its coverage of the drowning deaths of four [[Lawrence, Massachusetts|Lawrence]] boys in the [[Merrimack River]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Staff of The Eagle-Tribune, Lawrence, MA |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-56 |website=www.pulitzer.org |publisher=[[Pulitzer Prize]] |access-date=8 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301034822/http://www.pulitzer.org:80/winners/staff-56 |archive-date=March 1, 2017 |language=en |date=2003 |url-status=live}}</ref>


In the late 1980s through the 1990s, ''The Eagle-Tribune'' was consistently named New England Newspaper of the Year and earned a reputation for quality journalism.<ref name="obit">"Irving E. Rogers Jr., 68; Publisher of Eagle-Tribune". Obituary. ''Telegram & Gazette'' (Worcester, Mass.), May 22, 1998.</ref>
In the late 1980s through the 1990s, ''The Eagle-Tribune'' was consistently named New England Newspaper of the Year and earned a reputation for quality journalism.<ref name="obit">"Irving E. Rogers Jr., 68; Publisher of Eagle-Tribune". Obituary. ''Telegram & Gazette'' (Worcester, Mass.), May 22, 1998.</ref>


== History ==
== History ==
Before its 2005 sale to CNHI, ''The Eagle-Tribune'' and its predecessors had been owned by the Rogers family for more than 100 years, dating back to the purchase of the ''Lawrence Daily Eagle'' (founded as a morning paper in 1868) and ''Evening Tribune'' (founded in Lawrence in 1890) by ''Eagle'' reporter Alexander H. Rogers in 1898.<ref name="about">[http://plus.eagletribune.com/ze/info/companyhistory.htm EagleTribune.com: About Us], accessed July 8, 2007.</ref>
Before its 2005 sale to CNHI, ''The Eagle-Tribune'' and its predecessors had been owned by the Rogers family for more than 100 years, dating back to the purchase of the ''Lawrence Daily Eagle'' (founded as a morning paper in 1868) and ''Evening Tribune'' (founded in Lawrence in 1890) by ''Eagle'' reporter Alexander H. Rogers in 1898.<ref name="about">[http://plus.eagletribune.com/ze/info/companyhistory.htm EagleTribune.com: About Us], Retrieved July 8, 2007.</ref>


Rogers passed the role of publisher to his son, Irving E. Rogers Sr., in 1942; he passed it along to his son, Irving Jr., 40 years later.<ref name="obit" /> After his death in 1998, the fourth and last generation of Rogers owners took over, in the person of Irving E. "Chip" Rogers III.
Rogers passed the role of publisher to his son, Irving E. Rogers Sr., in 1942; he passed it along to his son, Irving Jr., 40 years later.<ref name="obit" /> After his death in 1998, the fourth and last generation of Rogers owners took over, in the person of Irving E. "Chip" Rogers III.
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During the first Irving Rogers' tenure, the ''Lawrence Eagle-Tribune'' was founded in 1959 by finally merging the company's two newspapers into one afternoon paper. Irving Rogers Sr. was also the publisher who moved the company to new headquarters in North Andover.<ref name="about" />
During the first Irving Rogers' tenure, the ''Lawrence Eagle-Tribune'' was founded in 1959 by finally merging the company's two newspapers into one afternoon paper. Irving Rogers Sr. was also the publisher who moved the company to new headquarters in North Andover.<ref name="about" />


During Rogers family ownership, the paper dropped "Lawrence" from its nameplate.
During Rogers family ownership, the paper dropped "Lawrence" from its nameplate.


Former Lawrence Mayor John J. Buckley, in 1990, lauded ''The Eagle-Tribune'' for helping the city bounce back from the closure of several mills in the 1950s. He said the paper championed economic redevelopment in its editorials and news articles, and persuaded companies such as [[Avco]], [[Honeywell]] and [[Raytheon]] to open plants in Lawrence.<ref>Handley, Ann. "Lawrence Eagle-Tribune Celebrates 100 Years". ''The Boston Globe'', September 23, 1990.</ref>
Former Lawrence Mayor John J. Buckley, in 1990, lauded ''The Eagle-Tribune'' for helping the city bounce back from the closure of several mills in the 1950s. He said the paper championed economic redevelopment in its editorials and news articles, and persuaded companies such as [[Avco]], [[Honeywell]] and [[Raytheon]] to open plants in Lawrence.<ref>Handley, Ann. "Lawrence Eagle-Tribune Celebrates 100 Years". ''The Boston Globe'', September 23, 1990.</ref>
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== Subsidiaries ==
== Subsidiaries ==
As part of ''The Eagle-Tribune''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> push into the suburbs—a move which has left some bitterness in the city<ref name="press" /> – the paper has acquired several [[weekly newspaper]]s within and bordering its coverage area.
As part of ''The Eagle-Tribune''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> push into the suburbs—a move which has left some bitterness in the city<ref name="press" /> – the paper has acquired several [[weekly newspaper]]s within and bordering its coverage area.


Weeklies published within the paper's circulation area by '''Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company''' include the ''Andover Townsman'', circulating 6,900 copies per week in [[Andover, Massachusetts|Andover]]; the ''[[Haverhill Gazette]]'', 6,400 in [[Haverhill, Massachusetts|Haverhill]]; and ''Town Crossings'', 14,700 in [[Boxford, Massachusetts|Boxford]] and [[North Andover, Massachusetts|North Andover]].<ref name="ads">[http://plus.salemnews.com/ze/info/pdfs/2007retail.pdf The Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company: Advertising Rates 2007], accessed July 8, 2007.</ref>
Weeklies published within the paper's circulation area by '''Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company''' include the ''Andover Townsman'', circulating 6,900 copies per week in [[Andover, Massachusetts|Andover]]; the ''[[Haverhill Gazette]]'', 6,400 in [[Haverhill, Massachusetts|Haverhill]]; and ''Town Crossings'', 14,700 in [[Boxford, Massachusetts|Boxford]] and [[North Andover, Massachusetts|North Andover]].<ref name="ads">[http://plus.salemnews.com/ze/info/pdfs/2007retail.pdf The Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company: Advertising Rates 2007], Retrieved July 8, 2007.</ref>


Bordering ''The Eagle-Tribune''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> circulation area in southern [[New Hampshire]], the company publishes the ''Carriage Towne News'' in [[Exeter, New Hampshire|Exeter]] and nine other towns; and the weekly ''Derry News'' in [[Derry, New Hampshire|Derry]] and five other towns.<ref name="ads" />
Bordering ''The Eagle-Tribune''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> circulation area in southern [[New Hampshire]], the company publishes the ''Carriage Towne News'' in [[Exeter, New Hampshire|Exeter]] and nine other towns; and the weekly ''Derry News'' in [[Derry, New Hampshire|Derry]] and five other towns.<ref name="ads" />
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Since then, the four dailies and the weeklies have made several cost-saving consolidations, cutting down to one printing facility and combining advertising staffs. In 2005, the company employed 700 and reached 341,000 readers in 55 communities, according to a spokesman.<ref name="press" /> In September 2008, the company laid off 52 employees in a cost-cutting move.
Since then, the four dailies and the weeklies have made several cost-saving consolidations, cutting down to one printing facility and combining advertising staffs. In 2005, the company employed 700 and reached 341,000 readers in 55 communities, according to a spokesman.<ref name="press" /> In September 2008, the company laid off 52 employees in a cost-cutting move.


With its acquisition of the Eagle-Tribune, CNHI also assumed a 49 percent stake in Costa-Eagle Radio Ventures Ltd. and its three radio stations, WCCM, [[WCCM (AM)|WCEC]] (formerly [[WHAV]]) and [[WNNW]]. Continuing its deemphasis of its home town, the company moved WCCM, a long-time Lawrence radio station to a smaller signal in Haverhill and then to its smallest signal in Salem, N.H. The former owners of the Eagle-Tribune created Cambridge Acquisitions, Inc. during the fall of 1994 to hold the minority stake, according to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Corporations Division.<ref>http://corp.sec.state.ma.us/corp/corpsearch/CorpSearchEntityList.asp?ReadFromDB=True&UpdateAllowed=</ref> In April 2017, the [[WUBG (AM)|WCCM]] call letters were moved to a station in Methuen, with the Salem station becoming [[WMVX (AM)|WMVX]].
With its acquisition of the Eagle-Tribune, CNHI also assumed a 49 percent stake in Costa-Eagle Radio Ventures Ltd. and its three radio stations, WCCM, [[WCCM (AM)|WCEC]] (formerly [[WHAV]]) and [[WNNW]]. Continuing its deemphasis of its home town, the company moved WCCM, a long-time Lawrence radio station to a smaller signal in Haverhill and then to its smallest signal in [[Salem, New Hampshire]]. The former owners of the Eagle-Tribune created Cambridge Acquisitions, Inc. during the fall of 1994 to hold the minority stake, according to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Corporations Division.<ref>[http://corp.sec.state.ma.us/corp/corpsearch/CorpSearchEntityList.asp?ReadFromDB=True&UpdateAllowed= Entity list] {{dead link|date=July 2023}}</ref> In April 2017, the [[WUBG (AM)|WCCM]] call letters were moved to a station in Methuen, with the Salem station becoming [[WMVX (AM)|WMVX]].


==Notable writers==
==Notable writers==
* [[Russ Conway (journalist)|Russ Conway]]<ref name="Farber">{{cite web|url=https://www.si.com/vault/1996/02/19/210076/man-on-a-mission-russ-conways-investigative-work-may-bring-down-a-hockey-power-broker|title=Man on a mission: Russ-Conway's investigative work may bring down a hockey power broker|last=Farber|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Farber|date=1996-02-19|website=Sports Illustrated Vault|access-date=2018-11-03}}</ref>
* [[Russ Conway (journalist)|Russ Conway]]<ref name="Farber">{{cite web|url=https://www.si.com/vault/1996/02/19/210076/man-on-a-mission-russ-conways-investigative-work-may-bring-down-a-hockey-power-broker|title=Man on a mission: Russ-Conway's investigative work may bring down a hockey power broker|last=Farber|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Farber|date=1996-02-19|website=Sports Illustrated Vault|access-date=2018-11-03}}</ref>

* Hector Longo
* Hector Longo
* Rob Fucci
* Raymond N. Maynard


== References ==
== References ==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
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* {{Official website|www.eagletribune.com}}
* {{Official website|www.eagletribune.com}}
* [http://www.cnhi.com/ Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.]
* [http://www.cnhi.com/ Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.]
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The Eagle-Tribune
December 18, 2011 cover of the
Sunday Eagle-Tribune
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.
PublisherJim Falzone
EditorTracey Dee Rauh
Founded1868, as Lawrence Daily Eagle
Headquarters100 Turnpike Street,
North Andover, Massachusetts 01845, United States
Circulation35,397 daily
36,904 Sundays (as of 2012)[1]
ISSN1084-4708
Websiteeagletribune.com

The Eagle-Tribune (and Sunday Eagle-Tribune) is a seven-day morning daily newspaper covering the Merrimack Valley and Essex County, Massachusetts, and southern New Hampshire. It is the largest-circulation daily newspaper owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc., and the lead property in a regional chain of four dailies and several weekly newspapers in Essex County and southern New Hampshire.

Although The Eagle-Tribune is historically tied to Lawrence, Massachusetts, the largest city in its circulation area, it has been based since the 1960s in suburban North Andover, Massachusetts, and has not included "Lawrence" in its nameplate since the late 1980s.[2]

Awards

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Despite being a small-town publication, The Eagle-Tribune has run some extremely notable stories publicizing scandals inside and outside politics. During the late 1980s, The Eagle-Tribune ran nearly 200 articles on Michael Dukakis and the Massachusetts prison furlough program, with a special focus on Willie Horton. The series was widely credited for ending furlough for first-degree murderers in Massachusetts, and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.[3] During the 1990s, The Eagle Tribune ran a series of articles titled Cracking the Ice: Intrigue and Conflict in the World of Big-Time Hockey, interviewing nearly 400 current and former players and officials, uncovering corruption inside the NHL, its players' association, and Hockey Canada, which would lead to the conviction, disbarment, and resignation from the Hockey Hall of Fame of former NHLPA president Alan Eagleson. The newspaper's sports editor, Russ Conway, who led the investigation, was a nominated finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Beat Reporting for his work and earned the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1999.[4][5] The newspaper’s staff was also a nominated finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting in 1996, for coverage of the Malden Mills fire and its impact on the community.[6] The paper won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for its coverage of the drowning deaths of four Lawrence boys in the Merrimack River.[7]

In the late 1980s through the 1990s, The Eagle-Tribune was consistently named New England Newspaper of the Year and earned a reputation for quality journalism.[8]

History

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Before its 2005 sale to CNHI, The Eagle-Tribune and its predecessors had been owned by the Rogers family for more than 100 years, dating back to the purchase of the Lawrence Daily Eagle (founded as a morning paper in 1868) and Evening Tribune (founded in Lawrence in 1890) by Eagle reporter Alexander H. Rogers in 1898.[9]

Rogers passed the role of publisher to his son, Irving E. Rogers Sr., in 1942; he passed it along to his son, Irving Jr., 40 years later.[8] After his death in 1998, the fourth and last generation of Rogers owners took over, in the person of Irving E. "Chip" Rogers III.

During the first Irving Rogers' tenure, the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune was founded in 1959 by finally merging the company's two newspapers into one afternoon paper. Irving Rogers Sr. was also the publisher who moved the company to new headquarters in North Andover.[9]

During Rogers family ownership, the paper dropped "Lawrence" from its nameplate.

Former Lawrence Mayor John J. Buckley, in 1990, lauded The Eagle-Tribune for helping the city bounce back from the closure of several mills in the 1950s. He said the paper championed economic redevelopment in its editorials and news articles, and persuaded companies such as Avco, Honeywell and Raytheon to open plants in Lawrence.[10]

In 2005, the Rogers family, which had owned The Eagle-Tribune for generations, sold the newspaper and its subsidiaries—including three other Massachusetts dailies and several weeklies—to Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. of Alabama, for an undisclosed amount of money. Rogers initially stayed on as publisher, but was replaced as publisher later that year.[11]

The paper went through a minor labor dispute in January 2006, after several staff members attempted to start a union. As part of a move to beef up The Eagle-Tribune's presence in New Hampshire, the paper reassigned several staff members to a satellite bureau in Derry, New Hampshire – days after a union vote. Some of the workers said they were being punished for being on a union organizing committee; they said other members of the committee were switched to less desirable night beats. Spokesmen for CNHI said the moves were unrelated to the union vote, which failed.[12]

March 2006 brought the daily paper's conversion from an afternoon to a morning newspaper.

Subsidiaries

[edit]

As part of The Eagle-Tribune's push into the suburbs—a move which has left some bitterness in the city[2] – the paper has acquired several weekly newspapers within and bordering its coverage area.

Weeklies published within the paper's circulation area by Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company include the Andover Townsman, circulating 6,900 copies per week in Andover; the Haverhill Gazette, 6,400 in Haverhill; and Town Crossings, 14,700 in Boxford and North Andover.[13]

Bordering The Eagle-Tribune's circulation area in southern New Hampshire, the company publishes the Carriage Towne News in Exeter and nine other towns; and the weekly Derry News in Derry and five other towns.[13]

In 2002, the paper made its largest acquisition, scooping up some of its chief daily competitors for US$64 million. The purchase of the Essex County Newspapers chain from Ottaway Community Newspapers, a division of Dow Jones & Company, brought three neighboring afternoon dailies into the fold: the Gloucester Daily Times, The Daily News of Newburyport and The Salem Evening News. Eagle-Tribune executives touted the creation of a regional news organization; they also laid off some 45 staffers at the Essex County papers, including some editors of the Newburyport and Salem papers.[14]

Since then, the four dailies and the weeklies have made several cost-saving consolidations, cutting down to one printing facility and combining advertising staffs. In 2005, the company employed 700 and reached 341,000 readers in 55 communities, according to a spokesman.[2] In September 2008, the company laid off 52 employees in a cost-cutting move.

With its acquisition of the Eagle-Tribune, CNHI also assumed a 49 percent stake in Costa-Eagle Radio Ventures Ltd. and its three radio stations, WCCM, WCEC (formerly WHAV) and WNNW. Continuing its deemphasis of its home town, the company moved WCCM, a long-time Lawrence radio station to a smaller signal in Haverhill and then to its smallest signal in Salem, New Hampshire. The former owners of the Eagle-Tribune created Cambridge Acquisitions, Inc. during the fall of 1994 to hold the minority stake, according to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Corporations Division.[15] In April 2017, the WCCM call letters were moved to a station in Methuen, with the Salem station becoming WMVX.

Notable writers

[edit]

References

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  1. ^ "FAS-FAX Report: Circulation Averages for the Six Months Ended March 31, 2012". Arlington Heights, Ill.: Audit Bureau of Circulations. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c Crane, Joyce Pellino. "The Eagle-Tribune Presses On." The Boston Globe, September 22, 2005.
  3. ^ Pulitzer.org: Pulitzer Prize Winners, 1988, Retrieved July 8, 2007.
  4. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes. "1992 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Beat Reporting". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
  5. ^ "1992 Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
  6. ^ "Finalist: Staff of The Eagle-Tribune of Lawrence, Mass". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
  7. ^ "Staff of The Eagle-Tribune, Lawrence, MA". www.pulitzer.org. Pulitzer Prize. 2003. Archived from the original on March 1, 2017. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
  8. ^ a b "Irving E. Rogers Jr., 68; Publisher of Eagle-Tribune". Obituary. Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, Mass.), May 22, 1998.
  9. ^ a b EagleTribune.com: About Us, Retrieved July 8, 2007.
  10. ^ Handley, Ann. "Lawrence Eagle-Tribune Celebrates 100 Years". The Boston Globe, September 23, 1990.
  11. ^ "Eagle-Tribune Chain Sold to Ala. Newspaper Group". The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.), July 28, 2005.
  12. ^ Fitzgerald, Jay. "Paper's Labor Pains?" Boston Herald, February 17, 2006.
  13. ^ a b The Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company: Advertising Rates 2007, Retrieved July 8, 2007.
  14. ^ Gatlin, Greg. "Buyers of N. Shore Papers Ax Top Editors". Boston Herald, May 30, 2002.
  15. ^ Entity list [dead link‍]
  16. ^ Farber, Michael (February 19, 1996). "Man on a mission: Russ-Conway's investigative work may bring down a hockey power broker". Sports Illustrated Vault. Retrieved November 3, 2018.
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