The Gloucester Daily Times is an American daily newspaper published Mondays and Wednesdays through Fridays in Gloucester, Massachusetts by Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Essex County Newspapers was founded by Philip Saltonstall Weld, a former International Herald Tribune publisher who bought newspapers in Gloucester and Newburyport in 1952, later adding the Beverly and Peabody titles.
[4] The Eagle-Tribune of North Andover, one of Essex County Newspapers' chief competitors, bought the North Shore chain in 2002, paying US$70 million for the Gloucester Daily Times, The Daily News of Newburyport and The Salem Evening News.
[5] The Eagle-Tribune chain was itself bought for an undisclosed amount of money by Community Newspaper Holdings, an Alabama company, in 2005.
[6] Local folk duo Daisy Nell and Captain Stan recorded "G.D. Times", a tongue in cheek salute to the paper and how it covers everything from "who knows all the town meeting rules?"