[4] The publisher is John Celestino, who oversees the Haverhill Gazette and its sister papers in the North of Boston Media Group.
Among the Gazette's editors: Edward G. Frothingham, John H. Harris, Arthur Asa Hill, Isaac R. Howe, E.P.
The new competition was founded after several local business owners sought out a new newspaper to carry its advertising without offending the sensibilities of the significant numbers of Haverhill residents who were members of various shoe manufacturing unions.
The Gazette's owners included principally the Lowell Sun; The Holyoke Transcript-Telegram; the Brockton Enterprise & Times; Essex County Newspapers Inc. owner of The Newburyport News and The Gloucester Times; the Springfield Union and Springfield Daily News; and the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune.
Union contracts at his plant in Manchester, New Hampshire, provided that a day's work for printers consisted of printing a single publication.
[10] Jessica Bruder cited the conversion of the Gazette from a daily to a weekly in an article asking, "Is the death of newspapers the end of good citizenship?
Inaccurate filings by a private manager obscured the extent of the problem, which piled on top of preexisting debt and led to the hospital's sale in 2001.
Bruder mentioned some in the community who claimed that if the Gazette had continued as a full-featured daily, its more robust reporting would have made it harder for the private manager to conceal the hospital's financial problems for so long.