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Concord Monitor

U.S. center-left (editorial page); news coverage largely local and straight-reported

Owned byNewspapers of New England, Inc., a privately held, family-run company that also owns the Valley News, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Greenfield Recorder and other New England papers. Chuck Goodrich is its president and CEO.
FundingMainly local print and digital advertising, subscriptions and single-copy sales, with revenue from legal notices and printing. It is not owned by a chain, hedge fund or billionaire. Its parent sold the Monitor's Concord building in 2025 for about $1.8 million.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

The paper was founded in 1864 as the Concord Daily Monitor and has published in Concord, N.H., ever since. The Dwight family, longtime publishers of the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram, bought the Monitor in 1961, and the family's holding company grew into Newspapers of New England. That company is still privately and family owned, and it publishes about nine daily and weekly papers in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The Monitor says it reaches a large share of households in central New Hampshire. As a first-in-the-nation primary state paper, it draws attention each election cycle. In 2020 it chose not to endorse in the primary. Media Bias/Fact Check rates it 'least biased' with high factual reporting but notes a slight left tilt, because the editorial page mostly endorses Democrats. AllSides rates it 'Center' but says its confidence in that rating is low. In 2025 its parent sold the Monitor's building to a developer, and the newsroom changed how it uses its office space. I did not find a specific record of major controversies. A fair description is a community-focused regional daily with a mildly center-left opinion page.

Sources

  1. Concord Monitor - Wikipedia
  2. Newspapers of New England, Inc. - Wikipedia
  3. Concord Monitor - Media Bias/Fact Check
  4. Concord Monitor Media Bias - AllSides
  5. Has the Monitor moved? Yes. No. Sort of. - Concord Monitor
  6. Why this New Hampshire newspaper isn't making a primary endorsement - Boston.com
  7. Newspapers of New England announces leadership changes - Concord Monitor

Profile compiled 2026-10-26; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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