with community newspaper group community newspaper holdings or community newspapers inc. . community newspaper co. former type division of publicly held company industry publishing founded january 1991 1991 01 defunct 2011 2011 headquarters 254 second avenue needham massachusetts 02494 united states area served eastern massachusetts products daily and weekly newspapers parent gatehouse media divisions cape metro north northwest south west website wickedlocal.com community newspaper company or cnc was the largest publisher of weekly newspapers in eastern massachusetts in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century . it also published several daily newspapers in greater boston . the company s properties were assembled by fidelity investments in the 1980s ; fidelity founded the company and then sold it to the boston herald in 2001 . five years later the chain was purchased by and immediately became the largest single component of gatehouse media . gatehouse gradually phased out cnc branding in favor of wickedlocal.com the company s website and gatehouse media new england ; this process was complete by 2011 when staff email addresses dropped the cnc.com domain . 1 contents 1 holdings 1.1 weeklies 2 references 3 external links holdings edit cnc s flagship publication was the metrowest daily news based in framingham massachusetts . in 2011 it also published the milford daily news . it had also published and closed three other daily newspapers the daily news transcript the daily news tribune and the enterprise sun . the gatehouse purchase in mid 2006 included cnc as well as enterprise news media publisher of two dailies and several weeklies that competed with cnc s south shore holdings . the weeklies were incorporated into cnc and the company also forged close ties with its new sister dailies the enterprise and the patriot ledger although they and later gatehouse media massachusetts acquisitions the herald news and the taunton daily gazette retained their own editorial hierarchy however and were not considered part of community newspaper company . cnc s holdings as well as its massachusetts sister papers and the bulletin in connecticut now constitute gatehouse media new england . weeklies edit main article list of community newspaper company weeklies cnc published more than 100 weeklies semiweeklies and monthly publications . each publication was classified in one of five or six semi autonomous units cape metro north northwest south west each with its own editor in chief covering distinct geographic areas of eastern massachusetts and named for its location with respect to boston . the west unit included oversight over all the daily newspapers in addition to most of the cnc weeklies that complement them ; at times the cape unit properties were considered part of the south unit . references edit mathis gregory august 2 2011 . for the record a wicked important change . halifax plympton reporter . retrieved may 26 2012 . external links edit gatehouse media the metrowest daily news wickedlocal.com website of the cnc weeklies v t e community newspaper company ownership history fidelity investments 1986 2001 herald media 2001 2006 gatehouse media 2006 2011 dissolved into gatehouse media new england major acquisitions alta group newspapers bay state newspaper company beacon communications corporation cape cod publishing company community weeklies mariner group from capital cities abc memorial press group news transcript group from harte hanks norfolk newspaper company north shore weeklies suburban world newspapers tab communications newspapers the daily news transcript the daily news tribune enterprise sun the metrowest daily news the milford daily news cnc weeklies retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title community newspaper company & oldid 686438337 categories publishing companies established in 1991companies based in massachusettsnewspaper companies of the united statesnewspapers published in massachusettsmedia in norfolk county massachusettsgatehouse mediahyperlocal in massachusetts1991 establishments in massachusetts navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages kiswahili edit links this page was last modified on 19 october 2015 at 03 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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