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The ''Brattleboro Reformer'' is the third-largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Vermont. With a weekday circulation of just over 10,000,〔(Official website )〕 it is behind the ''Burlington Free Press'' and the ''Rutland Herald'', respectively. It publishes six days a week, Monday through Saturday, with its ''Weekend Reformer'' having the largest readership; the offices of the paper are in Brattleboro, Vermont and it has a market penetration (weekday sales per 100 households) of 62.8 in its home zip code. The ''Reformer'' covers all of Windham County, Vermont, as well as some towns in neighboring Cheshire County, New Hampshire. It has been owned by the Denver-based MediaNews Group since 1995, and is run by New England Newspapers, a MediaNews Group subsidiary. It is the only newspaper in the United States called "Reformer."〔(States Newspaper List )〕 ==History from 19th to mid-20th century== The ''Reformer'' published its first issue, under the name ''Windham County Reformer'', in 1876. Publisher Charles N. Davenport, a prominent lawyer and supporter of the Democratic Party, founded the paper in part due to dissatisfaction with what he saw as a Republican bias in the coverage by the ''Vermont Phoenix'', the main political paper in the state. The presidential campaign at the time, between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden prompted the ''Vermont Record and Farmer'', the third paper in the state, to describe the new paper as dedicated to "Tilden and reform." While local historians believe that the original conception of the paper was for it to last only for the duration of the 1876 campaign, Davenport's son, Charles H., ran the paper for twenty-five years after which it was passed on to editors unconnected with the Davenport family. The paper went from a weekly to twice-weekly publication schedule in 1897. While the paper had financial troubles for many years, it managed to maintain a continuous publication schedule. In 1903, it was bought by the Vermont Printing Company, and its new editors turned the paper away from its partisan Democrat emphasis. The ''Phoenix'' and ''Reformer'' were merged in 1913 under the management of the Brattleboro Publishing Company, with the ''Phoenix'' serving as the ''Reformers weekly companion and the ''Reformer'' going to a daily publication schedule. The ''Phoenix'' weekly was discontinued in 1955. The 1913 merger was considered by some to be the "true" founding date of the paper; according to an article in the March 4, 1925 issue, "Daily Reformer Now 15 Years Old": :The Brattleboro Daily Reformer celebrated yesterday its 15th anniversary as a daily. As a weekly publication The Reformer dates back to the dim and distant date of 1876, but its debut as a daily – with that word ‘Daily’ in emphatic black-face letter-spaced Gothic type on its first page – came on Monday, March 3, 1913. Records at the Brooks Memorial Library, the main library of Brattleboro, list the publication history of the paper in 2006 as :''Windham County Reformer'', 1876-1897 :''Semi-weekly Windham County Reformer'', 1897-1901 :''Windham County Reformer'', 1901-1912, :''Brattleboro Daily Reformer (after merger with Vermont Phoenix)'', 1913-1955 :''Brattleboro Daily Reformer and Vermont Phoenix'', 1955-1973 :''Brattleboro Reformer'', 1973-present Much of the historical information in this section comes from a special 1981 section of the ''Reformer'', published on the occasion of the paper's moving from downtown Brattleboro to its headquarters on Black Mountain Road. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brattleboro Reformer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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