| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Publisher | Advertiser Newspaper Company |
| Founded | September 3, 1884 |
| Language | English |
| Ceased publication | September 30, 1961 |
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts  United States |
The Boston Record was founded on September 3, 1884, by The Boston Daily Advertiser as an evening campaign newspaper. The Record was so popular that it was made a permanent publication.[1] It was the first tabloid-format newspaper in New England.
Begun as the Afternoon Record, it was bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1921 and known as the Daily Record by the 1930s.[2] It was merged with another Hearst newspaper, the Evening American, to form the Record American in 1961. In 1972, this was merged into the Boston Herald-Traveler, which later became the Boston Herald.
- ^ Stanwood, Edward (1886), Boston Illustrated: Containing Full Descriptions of the City and Its Immediate Suburbs, Its Public Buildings and Institutions, Business Edifices, Parks and Avenues, Statues, Harbor and Islands, Etc., Etc. With Numerous Historical Allusions, Boston, Ma, New York, N.Y., Cambridge, Ma: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, The Riverside Press, p. 104
- ^ "The Boston Herald – a company history". Boston Herald. January 28, 2012. Retrieved July 23, 2021.