History
The Monitor has been published continuously since 1864, under a variety of names and owners. In the late 19th century it was owned by a publishing company called the Republican Press Association which also published a paper named the Independent Statesman. Its masthead calls it the Concord Monitor and New Hampshire Patriot, although the Monitor name is the only one in widespread use.
William Dwight, publisher of the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram in Massachusetts, bought the Monitor in 1961, becoming its publisher. When he retired in 1975, his son-in-law George W. Wilson took over both the Monitor and Newspapers of New England Inc., the holding company of Dwight's newspapers in Concord, Holyoke and Greenfield, Massachusetts.
The Monitor has been flagship of this chain—now encompassing four dailies and three weeklies in New Hampshire and Massachusetts—since 1993, when the Transcript-Telegram folded.
Its 2004 circulation was 22,000 daily, 23,000 Sundays. More recent figures put the daily circulation around 20,000.
In 2005, George W. Wilson retired as president of Newspapers of New England. Tom Brown became president of NNE, and Geordie Wilson, George W. Wilson's son, became publisher of the Monitor. Brown retired in 2009 and was replaced by Aaron Julien, George W. Wilson's son-in-law. John Winn Miller, former publisher of The Olympian of Olympia, Wash., was named the Monitor's publisher in 2010.
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