Morning Sentinel
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| Morning Sentinel | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Blethen Maine Newspapers |
| Publisher | John Christie |
| Editor | Eric Conrad |
| Founded | March 2, 1904, as Waterville Morning Sentinel |
| Headquarters | 31 Front Street, Waterville, Maine 04901 United States |
| Circulation | 19,639 in 2004[1] |
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| Website: morningsentinel.mainetoday.com | |
The Morning Sentinel is a seven-day morning daily newspaper published in Waterville, Maine, USA. Since 1998, it has been owned by Blethen Maine Newspapers, a subsidiary of The Seattle Times Company.
[edit] History
Originally founded in 1904 by officials of the Waterville Democratic Party -- Waterville mayor Cyrus Davis; future U.S. Senator Charles Fletcher Johnson; and future mayor L. Eugene Thayer, leavened by newspaper veteran Thomas F. Murphy -- the Waterville Morning Sentinel, within a year, grew from a three-desk operation to requiring its own building, on Silver Street.[2]
In 1911, a financially ailing Davis sold the paper to bond holders; ten years later, it was bought by Guy Gannett, who was in the process of building a newspaper, radio and television empire in Maine. His holdings included the Portland Press Herald and, after 1929, the Sentinel's in-county competitor, the Kennebec Journal.[2]
Gannett's ownership also saw the paper become less politically biased.[2]
Gannett and his heirs -- no relation to the Virginia-based chain called Gannett Company -- held the three Maine dailies until 1998, when they sold them to The Seattle Times Company, which rechristened the chain "Blethen Maine Newspapers." Frank Blethen, a descendant of Seattle Times founder Albert Blethen, a Maine native, later called the purchase "the largest and riskiest investment in our history" but a necessary move to keep the newspapers from becoming part of a corporate chain.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Gill, Kathy. "Presidential Race - Editorial Endorsements". November 1, 2004. Accessed May 27, 2007.
- ^ a b c CentralMaine.com: About, accessed May 27, 2007.
- ^ Christie, John. "In the Newspaper Business, Who Owns the Place Makes All the Difference in the World". Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Maine). August 13, 2006.
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