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| Company type | Division of publicly held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Founded | January 1991 |
| Defunct | 2011 |
| Headquarters | 254 Second Avenue, Needham, Massachusetts 02494, United States |
Area served | Eastern Massachusetts |
| Products | Daily and weekly newspapers |
| Parent | Gannett |
| 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]
- ^ Mathis, Gregory (August 2, 2011). "For the Record: A Wicked Important Change". Halifax-Plympton Reporter. Retrieved May 26, 2012.