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org">Boston News-Letter</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Boston_News_Letter,_first_issue,_April_17,_1704.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Boston_News_Letter%2C_first_issue%2C_April_17%2C_1704.jpg/250px-Boston_News_Letter%2C_first_issue%2C_April_17%2C_1704.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="383" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Boston_News_Letter%2C_first_issue%2C_April_17%2C_1704.jpg/375px-Boston_News_Letter%2C_first_issue%2C_April_17%2C_1704.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Boston_News_Letter%2C_first_issue%2C_April_17%2C_1704.jpg/500px-Boston_News_Letter%2C_first_issue%2C_April_17%2C_1704.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2025" data-file-height="3103" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><i>The Boston News-Letter</i>, first issue <a href="/wiki/File:Boston_News_Letter,_first_issue,_pg_2,_April_17,_1704.jpg" title="File:Boston News Letter, first issue, pg 2, April 17, 1704.jpg"><br />(See also: Page 2)</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Weekly Newspaper</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Format</th><td class="infobox-data">Broadsheet</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Editor</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/John_Campbell_(editor)" title="John Campbell (editor)">John Campbell</a> (1704–1722)<br /><a href="/wiki/Bartholomew_Green_(printer,_born_1699)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bartholomew Green (printer, born 1699)">Bartholomew Green, Jr.</a> (1722–1732)<br /><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Green_Draper" title="Margaret Green Draper">Margaret Green Draper</a> (1774–1776)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">April 24, 1704<span class="noprint">; 320 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">April 24, 1704</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political alignment</th><td class="infobox-data">British Crown</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Ceased publication</span></th><td class="infobox-data">February 29, 1776<span class="noprint">; 248 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend">February 29, 1776</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston, Massachusetts">Boston, Massachusetts</a> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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It was heavily subsidized by the British government, with a limited circulation. All copies were approved by the Royal governor before publication.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The colonies’ first newspaper was <i><a href="/wiki/Publick_Occurrences_Both_Forreign_and_Domestick" title="Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick">Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick</a></i>, which published its first and only issue on September 25, 1690. The <i><a href="/wiki/Weekly_Jamaica_Courant" title="Weekly Jamaica Courant">Weekly Jamaica Courant</a></i> followed in <a href="/wiki/Kingston,_Jamaica" title="Kingston, Jamaica">Kingston, Jamaica</a> from 1718.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1726 the <i><a href="/wiki/Boston_Gazette" title="Boston Gazette">Boston Gazette</a></i> began publishing with <a href="/wiki/Bartholomew_Green_(printer,_born_1699)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bartholomew Green (printer, born 1699)">Bartholomew Green, Jr.</a>, as printer. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Boston_News-Letter&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>News-Letter</i>’s first editor was <a href="/wiki/John_Campbell_(editor)" title="John Campbell (editor)">John Campbell</a>, a bookseller and postmaster of Boston. Campbell had been actively writing and sending "newsletters" of European occurrences to New England governors for a year or more and thought it would save trouble to print them for all. The <i>News-Letter</i> was originally issued weekly as a half sheet, a single page printed on both sides, 8 by 12 inches (200 mm × 300 mm), dated "From Monday, April 17, to Monday, April 24, 1704." The printer was <a href="/wiki/Bartholomew_Green_(printer,_born_1666)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bartholomew Green (printer, born 1666)">Bartholomew Green</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ea_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ea-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During its early years, the <i>News-Letter</i> was filled primarily with news from London journals describing English politics and the details of European wars. As the only newspaper in the colonies at the time, it also reported on the sensational death of <a href="/wiki/Blackbeard" title="Blackbeard">Blackbeard</a> the pirate in hand-to-hand combat in 1718.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1707, John Allen took care of printing the paper.<sup id="cite_ref-loc_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loc-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1722 the editorship passed to Green, who focused more on domestic events. After his death in 1732, his son-in-law John Draper, also a printer, took the paper's helm. He enlarged the paper to four pages and filled it with news from throughout the colonies. He conducted the paper until his death in 1762, at which time his son, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Draper" title="Richard Draper">Richard Draper</a>, became the editor. Richard died in 1774, and his widow, <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Green_Draper" title="Margaret Green Draper">Margaret Green Draper</a>, published the <i>News-Letter</i> for the rest of its existence.<sup id="cite_ref-ea_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ea-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1768, as the controversies between the American colonies and Britain were mounting, Richard Draper merged <i>The Massachusetts Gazette</i> with <i>The Boston Post-Boy</i>, which began functioning as a <a href="/wiki/Tory" title="Tory">Tory</a> newspaper that gave voice to the Loyalist views. At this time the royal colonial government directed Draper to include the inscription "Published by Authority" in the <i>Gazette'</i>s heading.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Richard Draper had been an ardent <a href="/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution)" title="Loyalist (American Revolution)">loyalist</a> and firmly supported Britain during the controversies among the colonies during the 1770s. His widow had shared his feelings, and when the young man she installed as editor, Robert Boyle, showed sympathy with the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">Revolution</a>, she replaced him with <a href="/wiki/John_Howe_(loyalist)" title="John Howe (loyalist)">John Howe</a>. Howe served as Mrs. Draper's editor until the British evacuated Boston on March 17, 1776, taking John Howe and Margaret Draper with them. With the British withdrawal, the <i>News-Letter</i> ceased to exist. The British government gave Margaret Draper a life pension.<sup id="cite_ref-ea_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ea-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Varying_titles">Varying titles</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Boston_News-Letter&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Varying titles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Boston news-letter</i>. April 24, 1704 – December 29, 1726.</li> <li><i>The Weekly news-letter</i>. January 5, 1727 – October 29, 1730.</li> <li><i>The Boston weekly news-letter</i>. November 5, 1730 – August 25, 1757.</li> <li><i>The Boston news-letter</i>. September 1, 1757 – March 18, 1762.</li> <li><i>The Boston news-letter, and New-England chronicle</i>. March 25, 1762 – March 31, 1763.</li> <li><i>The Massachusetts gazette</i>. And <i>Boston news-letter</i>. April 7, 1763 – May 19, 1768.</li> <li><i>Boston weekly news-letter</i>. May 26, 1768 – September 21, 1769.</li> <li><i>The Massachusetts gazette; and the Boston weekly news-letter</i>. 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"Density Dependence in the Evolution of Populations of Newspaper Organizations". <i>American Sociological Review</i>. <b>54</b> (4): 528. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2095875">10.2307/2095875</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2095875">2095875</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Sociological+Review&rft.atitle=Density+Dependence+in+the+Evolution+of+Populations+of+Newspaper+Organizations&rft.volume=54&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=528&rft.date=1989-08&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F2095875&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F2095875%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Carrol&rft.aufirst=Glenn+R&rft.au=Hannan%2C+Michael+T.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Boston+News-Letter" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.americanantiquarian.org/caribbeana/items/show/3">"Weekly Jamaica Courant"</a>. 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(1920). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Boston News Letter"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Encyclopedia_Americana_(1920)/Boston_News_Letter">"Boston News Letter" </a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia_Americana" title="Encyclopedia Americana">Encyclopedia Americana</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Boston+News+Letter&rft.btitle=Encyclopedia+Americana&rft.date=1920&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Boston+News-Letter" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeonard1999" class="citation journal cs1">Leonard, Thomas (September 1, 1999). "Recovering "Wretched Stuff" and the Franklin's Synergy". <i>New England Quarterly</i>. <b>72</b> (3). 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Shaw. Colonial Newspaper Advertising: A Step toward Freedom of the Press. <i>The Business History Review</i>, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Autumn, 1959), pp. 409–420</li> <li>Thomas S. Martin. The Long and the Short of It: A Newspaper Exchange on the Massachusetts Charters, 1772. <i>The William and Mary Quarterly</i>, Third Series, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Jan. 1986), pp. 99–110</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Boston_News-Letter&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/newspaper/index.html">Article on <i>The Boston News-Letter</i></a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.americanantiquarian.org/newspapers8.htm">American Antiquarian Society's images of <i>The Boston News-Letter</i></a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2013/05/advertising-in-america/">"Advertising in America"</a>. <i>The Beehive (blog)</i>. 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Massachusetts">Barnstable County</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Barnstable_Patriot" title="The Barnstable Patriot">The Barnstable Patriot</a></i> (1830–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cape_Cod_Times" title="Cape Cod Times">Cape Cod Times</a></i> (1936–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Berkshire_County,_Massachusetts" title="Berkshire County, Massachusetts">Berkshire County</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Berkshire_Eagle" title="The Berkshire Eagle">The Berkshire Eagle</a></i> (1892–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Bristol_County,_Massachusetts" title="Bristol County, Massachusetts">Bristol County</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Taunton_Daily_Gazette" title="Taunton Daily Gazette">Taunton Daily Gazette</a></i> (1848–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Standard-Times_(New_Bedford)" title="The Standard-Times (New Bedford)">The Standard-Times</a></i> (1850–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Herald_News" title="The Herald News">The Herald News</a></i> (1892–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sun_Chronicle" title="The Sun Chronicle">The Sun Chronicle</a></i> (1971–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Advocate_(Fairhaven)" title="The Advocate (Fairhaven)">The Advocate</a></i> (1979–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Dukes_County,_Massachusetts" title="Dukes County, Massachusetts">Dukes County</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Vineyard_Gazette" title="Vineyard Gazette">Vineyard Gazette</a></i> (1846–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Martha%27s_Vineyard_Times" title="The Martha's Vineyard Times">The Martha's Vineyard Times</a></i> (1984–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Essex_County,_Massachusetts" title="Essex County, Massachusetts">Essex County</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Andover,_Massachusetts" title="North Andover, Massachusetts">North Andover</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Haverhill_Gazette" title="Haverhill Gazette">Haverhill Gazette</a></i> (1821–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Eagle-Tribune" title="The Eagle-Tribune">The Eagle-Tribune</a></i> (1868–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Salem_Gazette" title="Salem Gazette">Salem Gazette</a></i> (1790–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Item_(Lynn)" title="The Daily Item (Lynn)">The Daily Item</a></i> (1876–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Salem_News" title="The Salem News">The Salem News</a></i> (1880–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_News_of_Newburyport" title="The Daily News of Newburyport">The Daily News of Newburyport</a></i> (1887–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gloucester_Daily_Times" title="Gloucester Daily Times">Gloucester Daily Times</a></i> (1888–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Jewish_Journal_(Boston_North)" title="The Jewish Journal (Boston North)">The Jewish Journal</a></i> (1976–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rumbo_(newspaper)" title="Rumbo (newspaper)">Rumbo</a></i> (1996–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Franklin_County,_Massachusetts" title="Franklin County, Massachusetts">Franklin County</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Recorder_(Massachusetts_newspaper)" title="The Recorder (Massachusetts newspaper)">The Recorder</a></i> (1792–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hampden_County,_Massachusetts" title="Hampden County, Massachusetts">Hampden County</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Republican_(Springfield,_Massachusetts)" title="The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts)">The Republican</a></i> (1824–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Westfield_News" title="The Westfield News">The Westfield News</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hampshire_County,_Massachusetts" title="Hampshire County, Massachusetts">Hampshire County</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Amherst,_Massachusetts" title="Amherst, Massachusetts">Amherst</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Massachusetts_Daily_Collegian" title="The Massachusetts Daily Collegian">The Massachusetts Daily Collegian</a></i> (1890–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/El_Sol_Latino" title="El Sol Latino">El Sol Latino</a></i> (2004–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Hampshire_Gazette" title="Daily Hampshire Gazette">Daily Hampshire Gazette</a></i> (1786–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Middlesex_County,_Massachusetts" title="Middlesex County, Massachusetts">Middlesex County</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Harvard_Crimson" title="The Harvard Crimson">The Harvard Crimson</a></i> (1873–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tech_(newspaper)" title="The Tech (newspaper)">The Tech</a></i> (1881–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Spare_Change_News" title="Spare Change News">Spare Change News</a></i> (1992–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Watertown,_Massachusetts" title="Watertown, Massachusetts">Watertown</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hairenik" title="Hairenik">Hairenik</a></i> (1899–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Baikar" title="Baikar">Baikar</a></i> (1922–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Armenian_Mirror-Spectator" title="The Armenian Mirror-Spectator">The Armenian Mirror-Spectator</a></i> (1939–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Weekly" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenian Weekly">Armenian Weekly</a></i> (1969–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Stoneham_Independent" title="Stoneham Independent">Stoneham Independent</a></i> (1870–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sun_(Lowell)" title="The Sun (Lowell)">The Sun</a></i> (1878–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wakefield_Daily_Item" title="The Wakefield Daily Item">The Wakefield Daily Item</a></i> (1894–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_MetroWest_Daily_News" title="The MetroWest Daily News">The MetroWest Daily News</a></i> (1897–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Times_Chronicle" title="Daily Times Chronicle">Daily Times Chronicle</a></i> (1901–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tufts_Daily" title="The Tufts Daily">The Tufts Daily</a></i> (1980–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nantucket" title="Nantucket">Nantucket County</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Inquirer_and_Mirror" title="The Inquirer and Mirror">The Inquirer and Mirror</a></i> (1821–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Norfolk_County,_Massachusetts" title="Norfolk County, Massachusetts">Norfolk County</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Pilot_(Massachusetts_newspaper)" title="The Pilot (Massachusetts newspaper)">The Pilot</a></i> (1829–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Patriot_Ledger" title="The Patriot Ledger">The Patriot Ledger</a></i> (1837–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wellesley_Townsman" title="The Wellesley Townsman">The Wellesley Townsman</a></i> (1906–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Medfield_Press" title="The Medfield Press">The Medfield Press</a></i> (1922–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Westwood_Press" title="The Westwood Press">The Westwood Press</a></i> (1987–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Plymouth_County,_Massachusetts" title="Plymouth County, Massachusetts">Plymouth County</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Old_Colony_Memorial_(newspaper)" title="Old Colony Memorial (newspaper)">Old Colony Memorial</a></i> (1822–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Middleboro_Gazette" title="Middleboro Gazette">Middleboro Gazette</a></i> (1852–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Enterprise_(Brockton)" title="The Enterprise (Brockton)">The Enterprise</a></i> (1881–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wanderer_(Massachusetts_newspaper)" title="The Wanderer (Massachusetts newspaper)">The Wanderer</a></i> (1992–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Suffolk_County,_Massachusetts" title="Suffolk County, Massachusetts">Suffolk County</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Boston_Herald" title="Boston Herald">Boston Herald</a></i> (1846–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Boston_Globe" title="The Boston Globe">The Boston Globe</a></i> (1872–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Christian_Science_Monitor" title="The Christian Science Monitor">The Christian Science Monitor</a></i> (1908–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Huntington_News" title="The Huntington News">The Huntington News</a></i> (1926–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Suffolk_Journal" title="The Suffolk Journal">The Suffolk Journal</a></i> (1936–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Berkeley_Beacon" title="The Berkeley Beacon">The Berkeley Beacon</a></i> (1947–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bay_State_Banner" title="Bay State Banner">Bay State Banner</a></i> (1965–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Free_Press" title="The Daily Free Press">The Daily Free Press</a></i> (1970–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sampan_(newspaper)" title="Sampan (newspaper)">Sampan</a></i> (1972–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/World_Journal" title="World Journal">World Journal</a></i> (1976–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boston_Business_Journal" title="Boston Business Journal">Boston Business Journal</a></i> (1981–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bay_Windows" title="Bay Windows">Bay Windows</a></i> (1983–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dorchester_Reporter" title="Dorchester Reporter">Dorchester Reporter</a></i> (1983–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/West_Ender_Newsletter" title="West Ender Newsletter">West Ender Newsletter</a></i> (1985–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Metro_International" title="Metro International">Metro</a></i> (1995–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/DigBoston" title="DigBoston">DigBoston</a></i> (1999–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/El_Planeta" title="El Planeta">El Planeta</a></i> (2004–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Revere_Journal" title="Revere Journal">Revere Journal</a></i> (1881–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Winthrop_Sun_Transcript" title="Winthrop Sun Transcript">Winthrop Sun Transcript</a></i> (1956–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Worcester_County,_Massachusetts" title="Worcester County, Massachusetts">Worcester County</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Milford,_Massachusetts" title="Milford, Massachusetts">Milford</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Milford_Daily_News" title="The Milford Daily News">The Milford Daily News</a></i> (1887–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Country_Gazette" title="The Country Gazette">The Country Gazette</a></i> (1981–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Sentinel_%26_Enterprise" title="Sentinel & Enterprise">Sentinel & Enterprise</a></i> (1838–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Telegram_%26_Gazette" title="Telegram & Gazette">Telegram & Gazette</a></i> (1866–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Gardner_News" title="The Gardner News">The Gardner News</a></i> (1869–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Southbridge_Evening_News" class="mw-redirect" title="Southbridge Evening News">Southbridge Evening News</a></i> (1923–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Athol_Daily_News" title="Athol Daily News">Athol Daily News</a></i> (1934–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fifty_Plus_Advocate" title="Fifty Plus Advocate">Fifty Plus Advocate</a></i> (1975–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blackstone_Valley_Tribune" title="Blackstone Valley Tribune">Blackstone Valley Tribune</a></i> (2008–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_defunct_Massachusetts_newspapers" title="List of defunct Massachusetts newspapers">Defunct</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Boston News-Letter</a></i> (1704–1776)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boston_Gazette" title="Boston Gazette">Boston Gazette</a></i> (1719–1798)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New-England_Courant" title="The New-England Courant">The New-England Courant</a></i> (1721–1726)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Weekly_Rehearsal" title="The Weekly Rehearsal">The Weekly Rehearsal</a></i> (1731–1735)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boston_Post-Boy" title="Boston Post-Boy">Boston Post-Boy</a></i> (1734–1754)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boston_Evening-Post" title="Boston Evening-Post">Boston Evening-Post</a></i> (1735–1775)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/American_Magazine_and_Historical_Chronicle" title="American Magazine and Historical Chronicle">American Magazine and Historical Chronicle</a></i> (1743–1746)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent_Advertiser" title="The Independent Advertiser">The Independent Advertiser</a></i> (1748–?)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boston_Weekly_Advertiser" title="Boston Weekly Advertiser">Boston Weekly Advertiser</a></i> (1757–1775)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boston_Chronicle" title="Boston Chronicle">Boston Chronicle</a></i> (1767–1770)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Independent_Chronicle" title="Independent Chronicle">Independent Chronicle</a></i> (1768–1840)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Spy" title="Massachusetts Spy">Massachusetts Spy</a></i> (1770–1776)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Independent_Ledger_and_the_American_Advertiser" title="Independent Ledger and the American Advertiser">Independent Ledger and the American Advertiser</a></i> (1778–1786)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/American_Herald" title="American Herald">American Herald</a></i> (1784–1790)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Herald_of_Freedom_(Boston_newspaper)" title="Herald of Freedom (Boston newspaper)">Herald of Freedom</a></i> (1788–1791)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Columbian_Centinel" title="Columbian Centinel">Columbian Centinel</a></i> (1790–1840)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/American_Apollo" title="American Apollo">American Apollo</a></i> (1792–1794)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Telegraphe" 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