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''The MetroWest Daily News'' is an American daily newspaper published in Framingham, Massachusetts, serving the MetroWest region of suburban Boston. It is the flagship newspaper of Community Newspaper Company, a division of GateHouse Media. The newspaper covers several cities and towns in Norfolk and Worcester counties, but until 1998 it was named for Middlesex County (most recently as the ''Middlesex News'') or for the town of Framingham (through most of the mid-20th century, as the ''Framingham News''). == History == Originally a locally owned evening newspaper, the ''News'' was purchased by the Harte-Hanks newspaper chain as its first foray into Massachusetts journalism, in 1972.〔Ackerman, Jerry. "Fidelity Unit Buys 14 Newspapers". ''The Boston Globe'', November 23, 1994.〕 By 1986, the paper sold 49,000 copies daily and 55,000 on Sunday,〔Adams, Jane Meredith. "Harte-Hanks Acquires Transcript Group". ''The Boston Globe'', March 14, 1986.〕 and also published four Framingham-area weekly newspapers: the ''Town Crier'' papers in Sudbury, Wayland and Weston, and the ''Townsman'' in Wellesley. That year, Harte-Hanks added the ''Daily Transcript'' of Dedham and the ''News-Tribune'' of Waltham, and 17 weeklies, to its holdings, and merged its Massachusetts properties into a single organization that became known as News-Transcript Group.〔 Around that time, amid a review of the four local newspaper companies competing in the Framingham area, ''The Boston Globe'' gave the paper credit for wide-ranging coverage of foreign, national, local, sports, arts and lifestyle news, but Tab Communications publisher Russell Pergament said his daily competition left a niche for his community papers:〔Mehegan, David. "Suburban Newspapers Slug It Out for Ad Dollars". ''The Boston Globe'', p. 23, May 14, 1986.〕 The ''News'' weekly competitors were mostly bought out by Fidelity Investments in the early 1990s, and became sister papers in 1994, when Harte-Hanks decided to sell its newspapers and Fidelity's Community Newspaper Company announced it would buy the News-Transcript Group. Before purchasing News-Transcript, CNC's only daily was the ''News'' rival ''Enterprise-Sun'' of Marlborough. The ''News'' daily circulation at the time was given as 35,516, and 45,174 on Sunday.〔Devine, Matt. "Fidelity Buys 14 Papers, Including Middlesex News". ''The Patriot Ledger'' (Quincy, Mass.), p. 32, November 23, 1994.〕 In 2000, after adding more weeklies to its fold, Fidelity sold CNC to the publisher of the ''Boston Herald''.〔Jurkowitz, Mark. "Boston Herald to Buy Community Newspapers". ''The Boston Globe'', p. A1, September 29, 2000.〕 The new owner instituted a content-sharing arrangement between CNC and the ''Herald'', resulting in a regular stream of ''Daily News'' stories appearing in the Boston newspaper. That arrangement continued for a short while after the ''Herald'' sold CNC to Liberty Group Publishing (later renamed GateHouse Media) in 2006.〔Gatlin, Greg. "Herald to Sell Suburban Papers". ''Boston Herald'', May 6, 2006.〕 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「The MetroWest Daily News」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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