The Burlington Free Press
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | The Gannett Company |
| Publisher | Jim Fogler |
| Editor | Mike Townsend |
| Founded | 1827 (as the Free Press Weekly) |
| Circulation | 30,558 Daily[1] 56,295 Sunday[2] |
| Official website | BurlingtonFreePress.com |
The Burlington Free Press is a daily newspaper based in Burlington, Vermont, in the United States. With a circulation of about 48,042 daily and 56,295 Sundays, it is the most circulated paper in Vermont.[3]
The current editor of The Burlington Free Press is Mike Townsend.
The newspaper employs 272 full-time employees in its Burlington headquarters. Most often international news is reprinted stories supplied by the Associated Press and Reuters news services.
History [edit]
The Burlington Free Press originally began as the Free Press Weekly, publishing its first issue in 1827. With use of the telegraph, the newspaper became an evening daily in 1848, although it wouldn't publish a Sunday newspaper until 1965. With the purchase of the Burlington Times in 1868 the Free Press Association was founded. In 1882 the evening edition was canceled due to poor sales and an influx of morning edition readers. In 1961 a new corporation, Free Press Association, Inc. was organized by high positioned Free Press personnel who purchased it from 50 stockholders. The Free Press changed hands in 1971 after merging with the Public Opinion and becoming a part of the Gannett Company.
In July 2008, the company announced they would raise the retail price of their newspapers, except on Sundays, from fifty-cents to seventy-five cents. This did not affect the price for subscribers of the newspaper.
In December 2008, the Gannett Company announced a company wide workforce reduction by ten percent. The Burlington Free Press laid off six of its newsroom staff.
On January 19, 2009, the company introduced a "compactly-edited" daily newspaper, which will circulate three days a week. The full normal edition of The Burlington Free Press will circulate the rest of the days of the week.
In June 2012, The Burlington Free Press switched from the broadsheet it had used for decades to an all-color tabloid format, at the same time introducing a paywall to it website that in the first three months caused a 12 percent drop in the paper's page views online (that number fell from about 600,000 to about 530,000).[4]
In October 2012, The Burlington Free Press announced plans to sell seven of its 12 properties in downtown Burlington. The estimated worth of the properties is $3.3 million. The paper plans to keep its printing press and mail room, but is selling office space.[5]
References [edit]
- ^ Haughney, Christine (September 30, 2012). The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/business/media/burlington-free-press-loses-ground-in-vermont.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
|url=missing title (help). Retrieved 22 October 2012. - ^ "About Gannett: The Burlington Free Press". Gannet Co., Inc. Retrieved 2007-02-27.[dead link]
- ^ "Vermont Newspapers". Vermont Living. Retrieved 2007-02-27.
- ^ Haughney, Christine (September 30, 2012). The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/business/media/burlington-free-press-loses-ground-in-vermont.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
|url=missing title (help). Retrieved 22 October 2012. - ^ Freese, Alicia (October 19, 2012). VTDigger.org http://vtdigger.org/2012/10/19/burlington-free-press-plans-to-sell-seven-of-its-downtown-buildings/
|url=missing title (help). Retrieved 22 October 2012.
http://abcas3.auditedmedia.com/ecirc/newssearchus.asp The Burlington Free Press has had drastic circulation drops as seen in this link from the audit bureau of circulation. They are now 35,299 Sunday and 28,138 weekday. This is about a 50% drop from the 1990's up to 2004.
External links [edit]
| List of daily newspapers in Vermont Bennington Banner | Barre Montpelier Times Argus | Brattleboro Reformer | The Burlington Free Press Caledonian-Record | Newport Daily Express | Rutland Herald | St. Albans Messenger |
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Huge circulation drop at Burlington Free Press as confirmed in this link from ABC Audit Bureau of Circulation http://abcas3.auditedmedia.com/ecirc/newssearchus.asp The Burlington Free Press has had drastic circulation drops as seen in this link from the audit bureau of circulation. They are now 35,299 Sunday and 28,138 weekday. This is about a 50% drop from the 1990's up to 2004.
