''The Daily News Transcript'' (formerly known as the ''Dedham Transcript'' and the ''Neponset Valley Daily News'') was a five-day (Monday through Friday) afternoon

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, covering the Neponset Valley of

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. The ''Transcript'' was originally published in Dedham, and also covered Walpole and Westwood. In its final years, the ''Transcript'' was managed and printed by ''

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''. Both were owned by

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, a division of GateHouse Media.

History

In the mid-1800s, the Transcript was published by John Cox, Jr., and edited by Samuel H. Cox. By 1980, the ''Transcript'' -- then called the ''Daily Transcript'' -- was the flagship of a five-paper chain, Transcript Newspapers Inc., that included the ''

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'' of

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and three

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s in

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(neighborhoods of

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and Needham ( suburbs west of Boston). Between August 1984 and March 1986, the company was sold four times: to

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in 1984; then to

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that December; in April 1985 to

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(head of

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) -- and eventually, in 1986, to

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, which combined it with the ''Middlesex News'' to form

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. News-Transcript, a chain of three dailies and several weekly newspapers stretching from Boston west to

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, remained a Harte-Hanks property until 1994, when the company continued its divestment of print properties by selling the Massachusetts papers to

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, already the publisher of dozens of weeklies in the Boston suburbs. 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 ''

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''. 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. 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. The last edition of the Daily News Transcript was published on September 25, 2009. After being merged with the Norwood Bulletin, it is now published as the Transcript and Bulletin.

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References

External links

''The Daily News Transcript''

Community Newspaper Company

GateHouse Media
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