Cape Cod Publishing Company, based in
Orleans, Massachusetts
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, United States, was a publisher of
weekly newspaper
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s in the 1990s. It was created by
Fidelity Investments
Fidelity Investments, commonly referred to as Fidelity, earlier as Fidelity Management & Research or FMR, is an American multinational financial services corporation based in Boston, Massachusetts. The company was established in 1946 and is on ...
as a holding company for newspapers acquired on
Cape Cod
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, and eventually folded into Fidelity's
Community Newspaper Company
Community Newspaper Company, or CNC, was the largest publisher of weekly newspapers in eastern Massachusetts in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century. It also published several daily newspapers in Greater Boston.
The company's propertie ...
. CNC is now owned by
GateHouse Media.
History
Four years before Cape Cod Publishing was formed,
Fidelity Investments
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had provided some financing in Cape publisher Barry Paster's successful bid for
North Shore Weeklies. The
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papers eventually became the first component of Fidelity's newspaper chain, which came to be known as
Community Newspaper Company
Community Newspaper Company, or CNC, was the largest publisher of weekly newspapers in eastern Massachusetts in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century. It also published several daily newspapers in Greater Boston.
The company's propertie ...
.
In 1990, Paster sold his original paper, ''The Register'' of
Yarmouth—to Fidelity, which also picked up ''The Cape Codder'' of
Orleans, a twice-weekly covering the