Everything about The Eagle-tribune totally explained
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 hasn't included "Lawrence" in its nameplate since the late
1980s.
Awards
During the late 1980s,
The Eagle-Tribune ran nearly 200 articles on
Michael Dukakis and the Massachusetts prison
furlough program. The series was widely credited for ending furlough for first-degree murderers in Massachusetts, and was awarded a
Pulitzer Prize. The paper won another Pulitzer in
2003 for its coverage of the drowning deaths of four
Lawrence boys in the
Merrimack River.
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.
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.
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.
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 has since retired.
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.
March 2006 brought the daily paper's conversion from an afternoon to a morning newspaper. Since some home delivery subscribers may not get their paper until 8-830am (after they leave for work), those people still believe it's an afternoon paper.
Subsidiaries
As part of the
Lawrence Eagle-Tribune's push into the suburbs -- a move which has left some bitterness in the city
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 twice-weekly
Derry News in
Derry and five other towns.
Since then, the four dailies and the weeklies have made several cost-saving consolidations, cutting down to one printing facility and combining their advertising staffs. In
2005, the company employed 700 and reached 341,000 readers in 55 communities, according a spokesman.
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