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.
Notable staff
Leo Monahan – sports journalist who wrote for the Daily Record and the Record American[3]
References
^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
Stanwood, Edward.: 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, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, The Riverside Press, (1886) p. 104.