The Boston Record

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.

The Boston Evening Record

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

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]

See also

• The Boston Daily Advertiser
• The Boston Herald
• The Boston Globe
• The Boston Journal
• The Boston News-Letter
• The Boston Post
• The Boston Evening Transcript