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''The Patriot Ledger'' is a daily newspaper in
Quincy, Massachusetts Quincy ( ) is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest city in the county. Quincy is part of the Greater Boston area as one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in ...
, that serves the South Shore. It publishes Monday through Saturday.


History

The paper was founded on , as the weekly ''Quincy Patriot'' by John Adams Green and Edmund Butler Osborne. ''The Quincy Patriot'' was the hometown paper of President
John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams (; July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825. During his long diploma ...
, a frequent writer of letters to the editor after he left the White House and became a congressman. The longest-running family ownership began in 1852 when George Washington Prescott went to work for the paper as a carrier. He later bought the newspaper. In 1890, Prescott started ''The Quincy Daily Ledger'', continuing The Patriot as a weekly. In 1916, the weekly and daily were merged into ''The Quincy Patriot Ledger''. The paper later expanded to serve communities throughout the South Shore. In the 1950s, the paper became a pioneer in newspaper production. Early experimentation led to development of the first practical
photo-typesetting Phototypesetting is a method of setting type which uses photography to make columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper. It has been made obsolete by the popularity of the personal computer and desktop publishing which gave rise to digita ...
machine. Newspaper executives from throughout the world visited the paper to learn about the new process. ''The Patriot Ledger'' was also among the first papers in the nation to establish zoned editions for local news and advertising, exchanging journalists with foreign countries, transmitting news copy and page layouts by facsimile, using a front-end computer editing system, installing a two-way radio system for spot news coverage, pioneering the use of 35-millimeter photography and setting up a "little merchants" carrier system. In 1979, G.W. Prescott Publishing Co. bought the Memorial Press Group and the Old Colony Memorial of Plymouth, Mass. ''The Patriot Ledger'' moved from its longtime editorial and business office location in downtown Quincy to the Crown Colony Office Park in South Quincy in 1988, then moved to 2 Adams Place on the Quincy-Braintree line. The newspaper was sold in 1997 to Newspaper Media LLC, which also owned ''The Enterprise'' in Brockton. It was bought by GateHouse Media in 2006. In September 2013, an affiliate of the principal shareholder of GateHouse Media, Fortress Investment Group, purchased the
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. Among the eight daily and 25 weekly publications included in the sale were the Cape Cod Times, the Standard Times of New Bedford and the Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald. GateHouse managed all of those publications. In November 2013, GateHouse emerged from
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bankruptcy proceedings, less than two months after filing to restructure $1.2 billion of debt. In November 2019, GateHouse merged with the Gannett newspaper chain, publisher of USA Today and 100 other newspapers. Now operating under the Gannett name, the company owns more than 500 newspapers across 39 states, one of every six in the country. GateHouse CEO Mike Reed continued in that position with the combined companies. Mark Oliveiri is the publisher of ''The Patriot Ledger'' and its sister publication, ''The Enterprise'' of Brockton, and Lisa Strattan is the executive editor.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Patriot Ledger Mass media in Norfolk County, Massachusetts Newspapers published in Massachusetts Newspapers established in 1837 Quincy, Massachusetts Gannett publications 1837 establishments in Massachusetts