The ''Daily Messenger'' is an American

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published weekday afternoons and on Sundays (as the ''Sunday Messenger'') in

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. It is owned by

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. In addition to the city of Canandaigua, the ''Daily Messenger'' covers all of Ontario County, and its associated

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and Wayne counties. Together, the Messenger Post Newspapers cover the eastern portion of the Rochester metropolitan area.

History

The paper was founded in Canandaigua as the weekly ''Genesee Messenger'' in 1806, adopting the name ''Ontario Messenger'' in 1810. A merger with ''The Ontario Repository'' in 1862 yielded a combined weekly called ''The Ontario Repository and Messenger''. When the paper converted to daily publication in 1906, it took the name ''The Ontario Messenger and Repository''. In the 1910s this was shortened to ''The Daily Messenger''. Although the ''Messenger'' name began in 1806, its history through ''The Repository'' was much longer. That paper incorporated the ''Ontario Freeman'' (1803), the ''Western Repository and Genesee Advertiser'' (1803) and ''The Ontario Gazette and Western Chronicle'', originally published in

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, in 1796. In the 1910s the ''Daily Messenger'' billed itself as the "oldest newspaper west of Hudson River".

Sister newspapers

Newspapers in the Messenger Post Newspapers chain share their Canandaigua headquarters building, the MPNnow.com website, their publisher and executive editor, and their business office functions. Messenger Post papers include: * ''The Post, serving Chili, Gates, Greece'' of Monroe County * ''The Post, serving Irondequoit, Penfield, Webster'' of Monroe County * ''The Post, serving Brighton, East Rochester, Fairport, Henrietta, Pittsford'' of Monroe County * ''The Post, serving Farmington, Victor'' of Ontario County * ''Wayne Post'' of Wayne County Apart from Messenger Post, the parent company GateHouse Media also owns two other nearby weeklies in the Genesee Valley, ''The Chronicle-Express'' of Penn Yan and the '' Genesee Country Express'' of Dansville, and several properties in the

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, including the ''Steuben Courier'' of

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and three dailies, '' The Leader'' of Corning, '' The Evening Tribune'' of Hornell and the '' Wellsville Daily Reporter'' in Wellsville. GateHouse, which owns hundreds of daily and weekly newspapers from

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, has its corporate offices in Fairport, which is in the Messenger Post coverage area.

References

External links

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