Times Herald-Record
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 The October 3, 2005 front page of the Times Herald-Record |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | Ottaway Community Newspapers (News Corporation) |
| Publisher | Joe Vanderhoof |
| Editor | Derek Osenenko |
| Founded | July 30, 1956 (as Middletown Daily Record) |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Middletown, NY United States |
| Circulation | 80,000 |
| Official website | recordonline.com |
The Times Herald-Record, often referred to as The Record in its coverage area, is a daily newspaper published in Middletown, New York, covering the northwest suburbs of New York City. It covers Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties in New York; Pike County in Pennsylvania; and Sussex County in New Jersey.
The newspaper's news-gathering operations are largely decentralized, the result of its large geographic reach. Its news staff reports from four communities:
- Middletown, covering western Orange and Pike counties
- New Paltz, covering northeastern Orange and Ulster counties
- Chester, covering southeastern Orange and Sussex counties
- Monticello, covering Sullivan County
It is published in a tabloid format and was the first cold offset press in the country. It is owned by News Corporation. Its sister newspapers in the New York market are the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal.
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[edit] History
The Record is the combination of two papers, one well-established and one newer. The Times-Herald had been in existence in some form in the city of Middletown since 1851, but under Ralph Ingersoll's ownership had the market to itself in the 20th century. In 1956, however, J.M. Kaplan started publishing the Middletown Daily Record, the first daily U.S. newspaper to use cold type, from a garage on North Street and there was competition again. The new paper grew to a daily circulation of 19,000 within three years but lost a lot of money in the process.
As the decade ended, James Ottaway was negotiating with Ingersoll to buy the Times-Herald and the Port Jervis Union-Gazette. (The Gazette, serving Port Jervis and surrounding communities, still exists as a weekly newspaper published by the Times Herald-Record.) A few months after he acquired both papers, Kaplan, who had been trying unsuccessfully to sell Ingersoll The Record, persuaded Ottaway to do so instead.
Ottaway tried to convert the paper to a broadsheet, but restored the original format after three months. In October 1960 the two papers were merged into their current form. The Sunday Record began in 1969, shortly after Ottaway itself was acquired by Dow Jones. In 2007, when News Corp. bought Dow Jones, the newspaper again changed hands.
The Record was often an innovator in newspaper publishing and was one of the first to print color. The newspaper underwent a significant redesign and page cut-down in 2007. At that time, The Sunday Record was given the standard Times Herald-Record nameplate. In 2008, the newspaper's Web site, recordonline.com, underwent a complementary redesign. The in-print and online redesigns were launched to coincide with bolstered local and business news coverage.
The Record is the newspaper covering Bethel, New York, where the Woodstock Festival was held in 1969. It can be seen in both the 1970 documentary and 2009's Taking Woodstock.
[edit] Prominent former employees
A.N. "Al" Romm (father of Joseph Romm) was hired as the first managing editor, a position he held for 20 years, and spent several more years as editorial page editor. He went on to teach and help with quality control at newspapers in the Dow Jones organization.[citation needed]
Malcolm Browne, who later won a Pulitzer Prize covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press.[1]
Manny Fuchs joined the Record in 1957 and became chief photographer in 1960.[2] He was a concentration camp survivor who became a photojournalist.[3] Before and during his stint at the Record, he photographed Picasso, Marilyn Monroe, Tennessee Williams, and Ben Hecht, among others. In 1966, he went to Vietnam to take pictures of hometown soldiers in the war zone. In addition to his photojournalism assignments, he was a patient teacher[4] but hard taskmaster. After retiring, he and his wife returned to her native France and lived in Paris, but came back to Middletown where they lived until his death in 2005.
Glenn Doty, one of the paper's former managing editors, later trained hundreds of student journalists at The Legislative Gazette, a student-run newspaper covering state government in Albany operated jointly by the SUNY campuses at New Paltz and Albany. Many went on to work at other newspapers.[citation needed]
Another notable former employee was Hunter S. Thompson. The future creator of gonzo journalism was fired by Editor A.N. Romm after "kicking open the office candy machine with his bare feet - again."[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Burkhart, Wade; undated; About us, Times Herald-Record; retrieved November 12, 2006.
- ^ Farlekas, Chris; July 10, 2005; A salute to Manny Fuchs; Times Herald-Record
- ^ A Place Called Auschwitz Rayburn Hesse; March 9, 1993
- ^ Bedell, Barbara; March 19, 2003; Columnist celebrates 30th anniversary; Times Herald-Record
