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The New Hampshire Gazette is America’s oldest circulating newspaper. Coming in at eight pages long and published at 26 times per year, the Gazette is distributed for free to seven surrounding towns of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, according to its website. Records from the Library of Congress show that The Gazette was founded on October 7, 1756 by New Hampshire’s first printer, Daniel Fowle. In 1839, The Gazette officially became the nation’s oldest newspaper when The Maryland Gazette that had previously had the title stopped printing.
Aside from its title of oldest circulating publication in America, The Gazette holds two other notable qualities in its long history. The Gazette has kept the same publication name throughout its entire 259-year history, as of 2015. If this tradition were not enough, the current editor, Steve Fowe, shares the same last name of the paper’s original editor and is even his third cousin, five times removed, according to the paper’s about page.
The current Gazette provides political, economic and editorial commentary to its readers. Despite it’s title as “newspaper, The Gazette does not follow the typical reporting and coverage that a newspaper today would follow. Instead of hard news stories on politics, The Gazette offers alternative stories to their readers, such as this 2003 article that explores ex-president George W. Bush’s supposed family ties to the Nazi regime. The paper is available for subscription all throughout the country for a flat rate of $25 for 26 issues per year. Digital issues are also offered on its website.
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"About The New Hampshire Gazette. (Portsmouth, N.H.) 1756-1763." News about Chronicling America RSS. National Endowment for the Humanities: Historical American Newspapers, n.d. Web. 11 May 2015. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025581/>.