Together, the Messenger Post Newspapers cover the eastern portion of the Rochester metropolitan area.
[3] When the paper converted to daily publication in 1906, it took the name The Ontario Messenger and Repository.
In the 1910s the Daily Messenger billed itself as the "oldest newspaper west of Hudson River".
Messenger Post papers include: Apart from Messenger Post, the parent company GateHouse Media also owns two other nearby weeklies in the Genesee Valley, The Chronicle-Express of Penn Yan and the Genesee Country Express of Dansville, and several properties in the Southern Tier, including the Steuben Courier of Bath and three dailies, The Leader of Corning, The Evening Tribune of Hornell and the Wellsville Daily Reporter in Wellsville.
GateHouse, which owns hundreds of daily and weekly newspapers from California to Massachusetts, has its corporate offices in Fairport, which is in the Messenger Post coverage area.