{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Daily News Transcript | image = | caption = | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = 1870, as ''Dedham Transcript'' | ceased_publication = September 25, 2009 | price = US$0.50 daily | owners = GateHouse Media | publisher = Kirk A. Davis | editor = Richard K. Lodge | language = | political_position = | circulation = 3,947 Daily | circulation_date = 2007 | circulation_ref = <ref name="YVnS7" /> | headquarters = 1091 Washington Street, Norwood, Massachusetts 02062 {{USA}} | ISSN = | website = [http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/ dailynewstranscript.com] }} '''''The Daily News Transcript''''' (formerly known as the '''''Dedham Transcript''''' and the '''''Neponset Valley Daily News''''') was a five-day (Monday through Friday) afternoon daily newspaper in Norwood, Massachusetts, U.S., covering the Neponset Valley of Norfolk County, Massachusetts. The ''Transcript'' was originally published in Dedham, and also covered Walpole and Westwood.
In its final years, the ''Transcript'' was managed and printed by ''The MetroWest Daily News''. Both were owned by Community Newspaper Company, a division of GateHouse Media.
== History == In the mid-1800s, the Transcript was published by John Cox, Jr., and edited by Samuel H. Cox.<ref name="V6n1W" />{{Efn|John Cox lived on Church Street.{{Sfn|Clarke|1903|p=11}}}}
By 1980, the ''Transcript''—then called the ''Daily Transcript''—was the flagship of a five-paper chain, Transcript Newspapers Inc., that included the ''News-Tribune'' of Waltham and three weekly newspapers in West Roxbury-Roslindale (neighborhoods of Boston), Newton and Needham (suburbs west of Boston).<ref name="Strike" />
Between August 1984 and March 1986, the company was sold four times: to Gillett Communications in 1984; then to Thomson Newspapers that December; in April 1985 to William Dean Singleton (head of MediaNews Group)<ref name="Tl0Sc" />—and eventually, in 1986, to Harte-Hanks, which combined it with the ''Middlesex News'' to form News-Transcript Group.<ref name="kU523" />
News-Transcript, a chain of three dailies and several weekly newspapers stretching from Boston west to Framingham, Massachusetts, remained a Harte-Hanks property until 1994, when the company continued its divestment of print properties by selling the Massachusetts papers to Fidelity Investments' Community Newspaper Company, already the publisher of dozens of weeklies in the Boston suburbs.<ref name="Nu1UP" />
CNC changed the newspaper's name, in 1999, to ''Neponset Valley Daily News'', to emphasize the paper's connections with its home region and its sister papers. This name was changed again shortly after, to ''Daily News Transcript''.
In 2000, Fidelity sold CNC to the publisher of the ''Boston Herald''.<ref name="udAoR" /> 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 even after the ''Herald'' sold CNC to Liberty Group Publishing (later renamed GateHouse Media) in 2006.<ref name="Wcdpe" /><ref name="kyktL" />
On August 20, 2009, GateHouse Media announced the Daily News Transcript would be ending publication in October 2009. The company plans to continue to cover the towns in the Transcript's coverage area with weekly papers, including a new one called the Dedham Transcript.<ref name="KfN6m" />
The last edition of the Daily News Transcript was published on September 25, 2009.<ref name="yfayr" /><ref name="jVDKu" /><ref name="ATjDS" /> After being merged with the Norwood Bulletin, it is now published as the Transcript and Bulletin.
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== References == <references> <ref name="Strike">"[http://nl.newsbank.com/cgi-bin/ngate/BG?ext_docid=0EB974732BABEAC2&ext_hed=EMPLOYEES%20FIRED%20IN%20NEWSPAPER%20STRIKE&ext_theme=bg&pubcode=BG Employees Fired in Newspaper Strike]". ''The Boston Globe'', p. 1, July 26, 1980.</ref> <ref name="YVnS7">Audit Bureau of Circulations "e-Circ" data for six months ending March 31, 2007.</ref> <ref name="V6n1W">{{cite book | title = Mid-Century Memories of Dedham | first = Wm. Horatio | last = Clarke | location = Dedham Historical Society |year = 1903|page=11}}</ref> <ref name="Tl0Sc">Fox, Wendy. "[http://nl.newsbank.com/cgi-bin/ngate/BG?ext_docid=0EADEAE521380531&ext_hed=TRANSCRIPT%20NEWSPAPERS%20SOLD%20FOR%20THIRD%20TIME%20IN%208%20MONTHS&ext_theme=bg&pubcode=BG Transcript Newspapers Sold for Third Time in 8 Months]". ''The Boston Globe'', p. 32, April 23, 1985.</ref> <ref name="kU523">Adams, Jane Meredith. "[http://nl.newsbank.com/cgi-bin/ngate/BG?ext_docid=0EADED6DC64C2FAD&ext_hed=HARTE-HANKS%20ACQUIRES%20TRANSCRIPT%20GROUP&ext_theme=bg&pubcode=BG Harte-Hanks Acquires Transcript Group]". ''The Boston Globe'', March 14, 1986.</ref> <ref name="Nu1UP">Ackerman, Jerry. "[http://nl.newsbank.com/cgi-bin/ngate/BG?ext_docid=0EADE11656BE5A21&ext_hed=FIDELITY%20UNIT%20BUYS%2014%20NEWSPAPERS&ext_theme=bg&pubcode=BG Fidelity Unit Buys 14 Newspapers]". ''The Boston Globe'', November 23, 1994.</ref> <ref name="udAoR">Jurkowitz, Mark. "[http://nl.newsbank.com/cgi-bin/ngate/BG?ext_docid=0EADDE76491F67F6&ext_hed=BOSTON%20HERALD%20TO%20BUY%20COMMUNITY%20NEWSPAPERS&ext_theme=bg&pubcode=BG Boston Herald to Buy Community Newspapers]". ''The Boston Globe'', p. A1, September 29, 2000.</ref> <ref name="Wcdpe">Gatlin, Greg. "[https://archive.today/20120713114755/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/1032878251.html?dids=1032878251:1032878251&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=May+6,+2006&author=GREG+GATLIN&pub=Boston+Herald&edition=&startpage=002&desc=Herald+to+sell+suburban+papers;+Purcell+keeps+Hub+tabloid's+reins Herald to Sell Suburban Papers; Purcell Keeps Hub Tabloid's Reins]". ''Boston Herald'', May 6, 2006.</ref> <ref name="kyktL">{{cite news | author = Steve Bailey |author2=Robert Gavin | title = Herald's owner to sell suburban papers; deal is put at $225m | newspaper = The Boston Globe | date = May 6, 2006 | url = http://archive.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/05/06/heralds_owner_to_sell_suburban_papers_deal_is_put_at_225m/ | access-date = October 7, 2009}}</ref> <ref name="KfN6m">Colby, Edward B. "Transcript changing to weekly format". ''Daily News Transcript'', August 20, 2009.</ref> <ref name="yfayr">{{cite news | last = Cook | first = Matt | title = Daily News Transcript leaves legacy of local coverage | newspaper = Daily News Transcript | date = September 25, 2009 | url = http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/news/x1800826340/Daily-News-Transcript-leaves-legacy-of-local-coverage | access-date = October 7, 2009}}</ref> <ref name="jVDKu">{{cite news | last = Colby | first = Edward B. | title = Weeklies to pick up where daily left off | newspaper = Daily News Transcript | date = September 25, 2009 | url = http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/news/x1800826338/Weeklies-to-pick-up-where-daily-left-off | access-date = October 7, 2009}}</ref> <ref name="ATjDS">{{cite news | last = Fargo | first = Tom | title = Last call for Transcript Land | newspaper = Daily News Transcript | date = September 25, 2009 | url = http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/sports/x1991986055/Last-call-for-the-Transcript-Land | access-date = October 7, 2009}}</ref> </references>
== External links == * [http://www.dailynewstranscript.com ''The Daily News Transcript''] * [http://www.townonline.com Community Newspaper Company] * [http://www.gatehousemedia.com GateHouse Media]
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