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Bangor Daily News

May 04, 2023

The Bangor Daily News is an American newspaper covering a large portion of central and eastern Maine, published six days per week in Bangor, Maine.

Bangor Daily News
The May 22, 2009 front page of
The Bangor Daily News
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Bangor Publishing Company
Founder(s)J. Norman Towle
Edward H. Blake
PublisherRichard J. Warren
PresidentTodd Benoit
EditorPaul Koenig
FoundedJune 18, 1889; 133 years ago (1889-06-18)
Headquarters1 Merchants Plaza,
Bangor, Maine, U.S.
CountryUnited States
ISSN0892-8738 (print)
2643-7457 (web)
OCLC number8818350
WebsiteBangorDailyNews.com

The Bangor Daily News was founded on June 18, 1889; it merged with the Bangor Whig and Courier in 1900. Also known as the News or the BDN, the paper is published by Bangor Publishing Company, a local family-owned company.

It has been owned by the Towle-Warren family for four generations; current publisher Richard J. Warren is the great-grandson of J. Norman Towle, who bought the paper in 1895.[1] Since 2018, it has been the only independently owned daily newspaper in the state.[2]

History

 
As part of its community relations, the Bangor Daily News in 1950 sponsored a soap box derby car, which bore the newspaper's logo. The car is on display at the Cole Land Transportation Museum[3] in Bangor.

The Bangor Daily News's first issue was June 18, 1889; the main stockholder in the publishing company was Bangor shipping and logging businessman Thomas J. Stewart.[1] Upon Stewart's death in 1890, his sons took control of the paper, which was originally a tabloid with "some news, but also plenty of gossip, lurid stories and scandals."[1] In 1895, J. Norman Towle purchased the newspaper. Ownership of the paper remained in the family, and Towle's great-grandson Richard J. Warren remains the publisher today.[1]

The Bangor Daily News merged with the Bangor Whig & Courier in 1900, leaving two newspapers in the city: BDN and the Bangor Daily Commercial (which ceased publication in 1949). Towle's son-in-law Fred Jordan took control of the paper in 1929. Forty-six BDN staff members served in the U.S. forces during World War II, and the paper's managing editor John M. O'Connell was sent to Europe as a war correspondent.[1] After Fred Jordan's death in 1947, his widow Lillis Towle Jordan became publisher.[1] Richard K. Warren became publisher in 1955 and remained in that role until 1984, a time when the newspaper's circulation dramatically increased.[1] It has only missed one day of delivery in its entire history. On New Year's Eve 1962, a massive blizzard dumped over three feet of snow on Bangor, with 20-foot snowdrifts that made it impossible for the delivery trucks to move.[1]

The newspaper's peak came in the mid-1980s, when Bangor Daily News had 150 reporters and editors and 150 other employees. At the time, published seven regional editions of the newspaper throughout Maine, and in addition to its main office on Main Street in Bangor had news bureaus at Madawaska, Presque Isle, Houlton, Pittsfield, Calais, Machias, Rockland, Augusta and Ellsworth.[1]

In 1982, a reporter for the Bangor Daily News, Beurmond Banville, who ran a one-person news bureau for the paper in Madawaska, Maine, on the U.S.-Canada border, wrote about a pretrial hearing in a murder case in New Brunswick, Canada.[4] After publishing an account of the restricted proceeding in BDN, Banville was convicted in a Canadian court for violating a publication ban, and was fined $160; in 1983, the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick upheld the conviction, but gave Banville an absolute discharge, meaning that he does not have any Canadian criminal record.[5] Banville and the newspaper considered the Canadian court's ruling to be a prior restraint on freedom of the press, but decided not to further appeal considering the cost.[5] The ruling appears in a textbook on Canadian media law.[6]

Richard J. Warren succeeded his father as editor in 1984; five years later, the newspaper moved its printing plant from Bangor to a new printing plant in Hampden (which was closed in 2013 and sold in 2015).[1]

The newspaper was an early adopter of a policy prohibiting tobacco advertising. As of 1993, the Bangor Daily News was one of fewer than twenty American newspapers that declined to accept ads for tobacco products.[7]

The newspaper launched its Web presence in 1997 at bangornews.com, later moving to bangordailynews.com in the 2000s.[1] From 1997 to 2001, BDN acted as an Internet service provider in addition to a newspaper, working with two local, small telecommunications companies to provide dial-up Internet access to a few thousand people in Maine.[1]

BDN adopted an aggressive "digital-first" publishing strategy,[1] and became the most-read online news source in the state; in 2011, the Portland Press Herald outsold BDN in print copies by a few thousand papers on an average weekday, but BDN's website had more than 100,000 unique visitors than the Press Herald's website.[8]

In 2008, the paper's editorial page director, Todd Benoit, was appointed BDN's director of new media; he later became BDN's president and chief operating officer.[1] In 2014, Richard J. Warren became publisher of the newspaper.[1] The company that owns and operates the newspaper, Bangor Publishing Co., expanded through acquisitions of Bangor Metro magazine (2014), Madawaska's St. John Valley Times (2015), and Fort Kent's Fiddlehead Focus (2016).[1] The company also owns several weekly newspapers in Maine: the Presque Isle Star-Herald, Caribou Aroostook Republican and News, Dover-Foxcroft Piscataquis Observer, Houlton Pioneer Times, and Greater Bangor The Weekly.[9]

In 2011 and 2012, BDN established the partnerships The Maine Campus (the independent student newspaper at the University of Maine) and The Free Press (the student newspaper at the University of Southern Maine) through the BDN media partners program. The program involves a content-sharing agreement as well as training and Web hosting services provided by BDN to the student newspapers.[10][11]

In 2011, BDN hired an additional reporter to cover Greater Portland and reassigned another reporter to cover the southern mid-coast of Maine. Editor-in-chief Mike Dowd also named editorial-page editor Susan Young as "managing editor for investigative reporting and new initiatives" and appointed Tom Groening as editorial-page editor.[12]

The Bangor Daily News and The Quoddy Tides sought records under the Maine Freedom of Access Act of closed-door tribal councils of the Passamaquoddy Tribe relating to a proposed $500 million liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on tribal land at the Pleasant Point Reservation.[13] A Maine court decided that the newspapers were not entitled to the records because the tribal officials' negotiations with the Oklahoma-based LNG developer were undertaken in the reservation's capacity as "a profit-making business rather than municipal governance" and were therefore not subjected to the Freedom of Access Act.[13] The Maine Supreme Judicial Court unanimously affirmed the ruling in 2006.[13] In 2013, Bangor Daily News reporters submitted a public records request to Maine's state government for public information that included the names and addresses of the holders of concealed-weapon permits. The request, made in furtherance of newsgathering, prompted a fierce uproar, and the newspaper dropped the request.[14]

In 2018, Bangor Daily News became the state's only independently owned daily newspaper in the state, after MaineToday Media, owned by Reade Brower, acquired additional newspapers in Maine. MaineToday now owns seven of Maine's eight daily newspapers: the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, the Times Record of Brunswick, the Journal Tribune of Biddeford, the Kennebec Journal in Augusta, the Morning Sentinel in Waterville, and the Coastal Journal in Bath.[2] Although Brower's company does not own BDN, it does provide printing services for BDN.[15]

As of 2020, about half of BDN's journalists were based in Bangor, with the other half spread across Maine.[16]

In May 2022, the newsroom staff unionized with the Maine NewsGuild and won recognition from management.[17]

Editorial stance

The Bangor Daily News's editorial stance has traditionally leaned toward conservatism and the Republican Party, in contrast to the Portland Press Herald, which was regarded as having a more liberal, pro-Democratic editorial stance.[18] It historically endorsed Republican candidates for office,[19] such as Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election,[20] but has also sometimes endorsed Democratic candidates.[19] In the 1974 Maine gubernatorial election, the Bangor Daily News endorsed independent candidate James B. Longley: "The newspaper had always endorsed Republicans, so backing an independent was stunning."[21] The endorsement was a major boost to Longley's candidacy.[21] The paper also backed independent candidate Herman "Buddy" Frankland[18] and Republican Susan Collins.[22]

BDN's editorial board endorsed Republican George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election, but endorsed Democrat John Kerry over Bush in the 2004 presidential election.[23] In 2008, BDN endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president, Republican Susan Collins for Senate, and Democrats Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree for Maine's congressional seats.[24] The paper's editorial board endorsed Obama for re-election in 2012 over Republican challenger Mitt Romney.[25]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Emily Burnham (June 18, 2019). "Tabloid origins, war correspondent and the only day no papers were delivered: A 130-year history of the Bangor Daily News". Bangor Daily News.
  2. ^ a b Bob Keyes (March 23, 2018). "Press Herald owner Reade Brower will buy newspapers in Biddeford and Brunswick". The Portland Press Herald.
  3. ^ Cole Land Transportation Museum
  4. ^ Jonathan Friendly, Maine Newspaper Tests Canadian Court Curb, New York Times (March 4, 1982).
  5. ^ a b Reporter's Conviction Upheld, Reuters (January 19, 1983).
  6. ^ Robert Martin & Stuart Adam, Sourcebook of Canadian Media Law (2d. ed: Carlton University Press, 1994), pp. 335-41.
  7. ^ William Glaberson, Seattle Times Places a Ban on Tobacco Advertisements, New York Times (July 5, 1993).
  8. ^ Al Diamon (June 17, 2011). . Down East. Archived from the original on June 23, 2011.
  9. ^ Julia Bayly (November 14, 2015). "Bangor Daily News owner acquires St. John Valley Times". Bangor Daily News.
  10. ^ BDN launches partnership with The Maine Campus newspaper, Bangor Daily News (December 9, 2011).
  11. ^ The Free Press teams up with the Bangor Daily News, Free Press (April 9, 2013).
  12. ^ Al Diamon (August 9, 2011). . Down East. Archived from the original on March 18, 2012.
  13. ^ a b c Maine Court Rejects Newspapers' Bid for Tribal Records, Editor & Publisher (May 9, 2006).
  14. ^ Maine: Uproar Over Request for Gun Permit Data, Reuters (February 15, 2013).
  15. ^ Casey Kelly, The man behind Maine's unparalleled consolidation of local news, Columbia Journalism Review (September 6, 2018).
  16. ^ "Staff Directory". Bangor Daily News. April 19, 2020.
  17. ^ "Bangor Daily News will voluntarily recognize newsroom employees' union". 6 May 2022.
  18. ^ a b Christian P. Potholm, This Splendid Game: Maine Campaigns and Elections, 1940-2002 (Lexington Books: 2004), p. 9.
  19. ^ a b Richard J. Powell, "A Campaign About Campaign Discourse: Maine's Second District in Running on Empty? Political Discourse in Congressional Elections (eds: Louis Sandy Maisel & Darrell M. West: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), p. 121.
  20. ^ United Press International (October 25, 1964).
  21. ^ a b Douglas Rooks, Statesman: George Mitchell and the Art of the Possible (Down East Books, 2016), p. 119.
  22. ^ Christian P. Potholm, This Splendid Game: Maine Campaigns and Elections, 1940-2002 (Lexington Books: 2004), p. 197.
  23. ^ Greg Mitchell, Daily Endorsement Tally: A Handful of Pickups for Each, but a Bigger Handful for Kerry, Editor & Publisher (October 27, 2004).
  24. ^ Endorsements 2008 — Editorials, Bangor Daily News (October 31, 2008).
  25. ^ Obama should serve four more years, Bangor Daily News (October 26, 2012).

External links

  • Official website

May 04, 2023
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The Bangor Daily News is an American newspaper covering a large portion of central and eastern Maine published six days per week in Bangor Maine Bangor Daily NewsThe May 22 2009 front page of The Bangor Daily NewsTypeDaily newspaperFormatBroadsheetOwner s Bangor Publishing CompanyFounder s J Norman TowleEdward H BlakePublisherRichard J WarrenPresidentTodd BenoitEditorPaul KoenigFoundedJune 18 1889 133 years ago 1889 06 18 Headquarters1 Merchants Plaza Bangor Maine U S CountryUnited StatesISSN0892 8738 print 2643 7457 web OCLC number8818350WebsiteBangorDailyNews comMedia of the United StatesList of newspapersThe Bangor Daily News was founded on June 18 1889 it merged with the Bangor Whig and Courier in 1900 Also known as the News or the BDN the paper is published by Bangor Publishing Company a local family owned company It has been owned by the Towle Warren family for four generations current publisher Richard J Warren is the great grandson of J Norman Towle who bought the paper in 1895 1 Since 2018 it has been the only independently owned daily newspaper in the state 2 Contents 1 History 2 Editorial stance 3 References 4 External linksHistory Edit As part of its community relations the Bangor Daily News in 1950 sponsored a soap box derby car which bore the newspaper s logo The car is on display at the Cole Land Transportation Museum 3 in Bangor The Bangor Daily News s first issue was June 18 1889 the main stockholder in the publishing company was Bangor shipping and logging businessman Thomas J Stewart 1 Upon Stewart s death in 1890 his sons took control of the paper which was originally a tabloid with some news but also plenty of gossip lurid stories and scandals 1 In 1895 J Norman Towle purchased the newspaper Ownership of the paper remained in the family and Towle s great grandson Richard J Warren remains the publisher today 1 The Bangor Daily News merged with the Bangor Whig amp Courier in 1900 leaving two newspapers in the city BDN and the Bangor Daily Commercial which ceased publication in 1949 Towle s son in law Fred Jordan took control of the paper in 1929 Forty six BDN staff members served in the U S forces during World War II and the paper s managing editor John M O Connell was sent to Europe as a war correspondent 1 After Fred Jordan s death in 1947 his widow Lillis Towle Jordan became publisher 1 Richard K Warren became publisher in 1955 and remained in that role until 1984 a time when the newspaper s circulation dramatically increased 1 It has only missed one day of delivery in its entire history On New Year s Eve 1962 a massive blizzard dumped over three feet of snow on Bangor with 20 foot snowdrifts that made it impossible for the delivery trucks to move 1 The newspaper s peak came in the mid 1980s when Bangor Daily News had 150 reporters and editors and 150 other employees At the time published seven regional editions of the newspaper throughout Maine and in addition to its main office on Main Street in Bangor had news bureaus at Madawaska Presque Isle Houlton Pittsfield Calais Machias Rockland Augusta and Ellsworth 1 In 1982 a reporter for the Bangor Daily News Beurmond Banville who ran a one person news bureau for the paper in Madawaska Maine on the U S Canada border wrote about a pretrial hearing in a murder case in New Brunswick Canada 4 After publishing an account of the restricted proceeding in BDN Banville was convicted in a Canadian court for violating a publication ban and was fined 160 in 1983 the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick upheld the conviction but gave Banville an absolute discharge meaning that he does not have any Canadian criminal record 5 Banville and the newspaper considered the Canadian court s ruling to be a prior restraint on freedom of the press but decided not to further appeal considering the cost 5 The ruling appears in a textbook on Canadian media law 6 Richard J Warren succeeded his father as editor in 1984 five years later the newspaper moved its printing plant from Bangor to a new printing plant in Hampden which was closed in 2013 and sold in 2015 1 The newspaper was an early adopter of a policy prohibiting tobacco advertising As of 1993 the Bangor Daily News was one of fewer than twenty American newspapers that declined to accept ads for tobacco products 7 The newspaper launched its Web presence in 1997 at bangornews com later moving to bangordailynews com in the 2000s 1 From 1997 to 2001 BDN acted as an Internet service provider in addition to a newspaper working with two local small telecommunications companies to provide dial up Internet access to a few thousand people in Maine 1 BDN adopted an aggressive digital first publishing strategy 1 and became the most read online news source in the state in 2011 the Portland Press Herald outsold BDN in print copies by a few thousand papers on an average weekday but BDN s website had more than 100 000 unique visitors than the Press Herald s website 8 In 2008 the paper s editorial page director Todd Benoit was appointed BDN s director of new media he later became BDN s president and chief operating officer 1 In 2014 Richard J Warren became publisher of the newspaper 1 The company that owns and operates the newspaper Bangor Publishing Co expanded through acquisitions of Bangor Metro magazine 2014 Madawaska s St John Valley Times 2015 and Fort Kent s Fiddlehead Focus 2016 1 The company also owns several weekly newspapers in Maine the Presque Isle Star Herald Caribou Aroostook Republican and News Dover Foxcroft Piscataquis Observer Houlton Pioneer Times and Greater Bangor The Weekly 9 In 2011 and 2012 BDN established the partnerships The Maine Campus the independent student newspaper at the University of Maine and The Free Press the student newspaper at the University of Southern Maine through the BDN media partners program The program involves a content sharing agreement as well as training and Web hosting services provided by BDN to the student newspapers 10 11 In 2011 BDN hired an additional reporter to cover Greater Portland and reassigned another reporter to cover the southern mid coast of Maine Editor in chief Mike Dowd also named editorial page editor Susan Young as managing editor for investigative reporting and new initiatives and appointed Tom Groening as editorial page editor 12 The Bangor Daily News and The Quoddy Tides sought records under the Maine Freedom of Access Act of closed door tribal councils of the Passamaquoddy Tribe relating to a proposed 500 million liquefied natural gas LNG terminal on tribal land at the Pleasant Point Reservation 13 A Maine court decided that the newspapers were not entitled to the records because the tribal officials negotiations with the Oklahoma based LNG developer were undertaken in the reservation s capacity as a profit making business rather than municipal governance and were therefore not subjected to the Freedom of Access Act 13 The Maine Supreme Judicial Court unanimously affirmed the ruling in 2006 13 In 2013 Bangor Daily News reporters submitted a public records request to Maine s state government for public information that included the names and addresses of the holders of concealed weapon permits The request made in furtherance of newsgathering prompted a fierce uproar and the newspaper dropped the request 14 In 2018 Bangor Daily News became the state s only independently owned daily newspaper in the state after MaineToday Media owned by Reade Brower acquired additional newspapers in Maine MaineToday now owns seven of Maine s eight daily newspapers the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram the Times Record of Brunswick the Journal Tribune of Biddeford the Kennebec Journal in Augusta the Morning Sentinel in Waterville and the Coastal Journal in Bath 2 Although Brower s company does not own BDN it does provide printing services for BDN 15 As of 2020 about half of BDN s journalists were based in Bangor with the other half spread across Maine 16 In May 2022 the newsroom staff unionized with the Maine NewsGuild and won recognition from management 17 Editorial stance EditThe Bangor Daily News s editorial stance has traditionally leaned toward conservatism and the Republican Party in contrast to the Portland Press Herald which was regarded as having a more liberal pro Democratic editorial stance 18 It historically endorsed Republican candidates for office 19 such as Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election 20 but has also sometimes endorsed Democratic candidates 19 In the 1974 Maine gubernatorial election the Bangor Daily News endorsed independent candidate James B Longley The newspaper had always endorsed Republicans so backing an independent was stunning 21 The endorsement was a major boost to Longley s candidacy 21 The paper also backed independent candidate Herman Buddy Frankland 18 and Republican Susan Collins 22 BDN s editorial board endorsed Republican George W Bush in the 2000 presidential election but endorsed Democrat John Kerry over Bush in the 2004 presidential election 23 In 2008 BDN endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president Republican Susan Collins for Senate and Democrats Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree for Maine s congressional seats 24 The paper s editorial board endorsed Obama for re election in 2012 over Republican challenger Mitt Romney 25 References Edit a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Emily Burnham June 18 2019 Tabloid origins war correspondent and the only day no papers were delivered A 130 year history of the Bangor Daily News Bangor Daily News a b Bob Keyes March 23 2018 Press Herald owner Reade Brower will buy newspapers in Biddeford and Brunswick The Portland Press Herald Cole Land Transportation Museum Jonathan Friendly Maine Newspaper Tests Canadian Court Curb New York Times March 4 1982 a b Reporter s Conviction Upheld Reuters January 19 1983 Robert Martin amp Stuart Adam Sourcebook of Canadian Media Law 2d ed Carlton University Press 1994 pp 335 41 William Glaberson Seattle Times Places a Ban on Tobacco Advertisements New York Times July 5 1993 Al Diamon June 17 2011 Media Mutt Bangor Daily Dominates Online News Down East Archived from the original on June 23 2011 Julia Bayly November 14 2015 Bangor Daily News owner acquires St John Valley Times Bangor Daily News BDN launches partnership with The Maine Campus newspaper Bangor Daily News December 9 2011 The Free Press teams up with the Bangor Daily News Free Press April 9 2013 Al Diamon August 9 2011 Media Mutt The Bangor Daily News Beefs Up Down East Archived from the original on March 18 2012 a b c Maine Court Rejects Newspapers Bid for Tribal Records Editor amp Publisher May 9 2006 Maine Uproar Over Request for Gun Permit Data Reuters February 15 2013 Casey Kelly The man behind Maine s unparalleled consolidation of local news Columbia Journalism Review September 6 2018 Staff Directory Bangor Daily News April 19 2020 Bangor Daily News will voluntarily recognize newsroom employees union 6 May 2022 a b Christian P Potholm This Splendid Game Maine Campaigns and Elections 1940 2002 Lexington Books 2004 p 9 a b Richard J Powell A Campaign About Campaign Discourse Maine s Second District in Running on Empty Political Discourse in Congressional Elections eds Louis Sandy Maisel amp Darrell M West Rowman amp Littlefield 2004 p 121 United Press International October 25 1964 a b Douglas Rooks Statesman George Mitchell and the Art of the Possible Down East Books 2016 p 119 Christian P Potholm This Splendid Game Maine Campaigns and Elections 1940 2002 Lexington Books 2004 p 197 Greg Mitchell Daily Endorsement Tally A Handful of Pickups for Each but a Bigger Handful for Kerry Editor amp Publisher October 27 2004 Endorsements 2008 Editorials Bangor Daily News October 31 2008 Obama should serve four more years Bangor Daily News October 26 2012 External links EditOfficial website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bangor Daily News amp oldid 1148662709, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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