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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Newspapers of New England |
| Publisher | Michael Rifanburg |
| Editor | Jeffrey Good |
| Founded | September 6, 1786 |
| Headquarters | 115 Conz Street, Northampton, Massachusetts 01060 United States |
| Circulation | 15,572 daily 16,978 Saturday (2011) |
| Website | www |
The Daily Hampshire Gazette is a six-day morning daily newspaper based in Northampton, Massachusetts, and covering all of Hampshire County and southern towns of Franklin County, Massachusetts. The newspaper prints Monday through Saturday, with the latter labeled "Weekend Edition".
Newspapers of New England, based in Concord, New Hampshire, owns both the Gazette and its main daily competitor to the north, The Recorder of Greenfield, Massachusetts. The Gazette also competes in its own coverage area with The Republican, a regional daily in Springfield.
In addition to the daily newspaper, Gazette newsrooms publish two weekly newspapers serving Northampton's suburbs, based in the newspaper's satellite news bureau. NNE also owns one regional weekly:
First published September 6, 1786—with a news item about Shays' Rebellion—the Gazette is one of oldest newspapers in the country, and had been owned by the DeRose family since 1929 before being sold for an undisclosed amount of money in 2005. The paper was sold to Newspapers of New England, said then-publisher and co-owner Peter L. DeRose, because there were no younger members of the family willing to take over the business.
DeRose, who stayed on as publisher for another year under the new owners, became co-publisher upon the death of his father, Charles N. DeRose, in 1970. Charles' mother, Harriet Williams DeRose, had purchased the Gazette in 1929. Peter and his brother Charles W. DeRose were credited with moving the newspaper's offices to a modern building just outside downtown Northampton on Conz Street; paying and treating Gazette employees well; and being a pioneer in establishing an Internet presence, now known as gazettenet.com.
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