Vineyard Gazette History

May 13, 2021
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Gazette Celebrates 175 Years, In Shifting Landscape for Journalism

The Vineyard Gazette celebrates its 175th anniversary Friday at a time of extraordinary change for community newspapers across America.

Vineyard Gazette
April 19, 1935
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Gazette's New Intertype Replaces Veteran of 15 Years' Service

Vineyard Gazette

The Vineyard Gazette installed on Saturday a new Intertype machine—a typesetting machine embodying a great many recent improvements—and this addition to the plant was put into operation for the first time this week. The Intertype replaces the now old fashioned typesetting machine which the Gazette brought to the Island in the early summer of 1920, the first machine of the kind to be Set up on Martha’s Vineyard.

Vineyard Gazette
Typesetting
August 26, 2021

From Gazette Stringer to Rocket Scientist

Bill Eville
David Mello, 89, began working at the Gazette in 1948 as a student at Edgartown High School. Later he became a rocket scientist.
Vineyard Gazette
May 3, 2019

Gazette Wins Top Award for Digital Journalism

The Time Machine, the Vineyard Gazette’s online display of historical stories and photos, won Best Digital Innovation Award Thursday from the New England Society of Newspaper Editors.
Vineyard Gazette
May 17, 2018

And Many More

On Monday, the Vineyard Gazette had a birthday, and on Tuesday it celebrated by inviting readers in.
May 17, 2018

Picture This

What of the Vineyard as it lived and breathed had its being on the Gazette’s natal day, one hundred years ago, May 14?
May 5, 2017

Vineyard Gazette Acquires Tourism Website MVOL

Martha’s Vineyard Online, the Island’s first and best-known tourism website at MVOL.com, has been acquired by the Vineyard Gazette.
Vineyard Gazette
Websites
March 26, 2015

Preserving the Future and the Past, Gazette Upgrades Printing Process

The Vineyard Gazette this week welcomed a new piece of technology into its decades-old printing operation with the addition of a new computer-to-plate unit.
Vineyard Gazette
Printing presses
May 9, 2013

Never Just a Little Brother, Tuesday Paper Made Headlines

Tom Dunlop
More than anything else, a revolution in technology made the Tuesday edition of the Vineyard Gazette possible back in the summer of 1929. Ironically enough, it was another revolution in technology that rendered it more or less obsolete 84 years later.
Tuesday Paper
Vineyard Gazette
October 25, 2012

Take a Tour of Our New Website

For a limited time, the Vineyard Gazette is opening up access to all parts of our new multiplatform website to subscribers and visitors alike so you can explore our wealth of multimedia, news, info
Websites
Vineyard Gazette
November 25, 2010
jerome and nancy kohlberg

Vineyard Gazette is Sold to Island Philanthropists

Julia Wells
The Vineyard Gazette, the family-owned weekly newspaper that has been a prominent, much-decorated and enduring chronicle of Island life for 164 years, will be sold to new owners, the newspaper’s publisher Richard Reston announced today.
Vineyard Gazette
Jerome Kohlberg
May 2, 2003

Richard Reston, Editor and Mentor, Retires After 28 Years with the Gazette

Julia Wells
It’s 10 p.m. on a Thursday night. Steve Durkee, the Gazette graphics director, is in Dick Reston’s office, his head stuck out the open skylight, smoking a cigarette. Dick is at his computer, writing headlines.
Editors
Publishers
February 21, 2003

Gazette's Editor and Publisher Plans to Retire; Names Successor

The Vineyard Gazette
Announcing his intent to retire as ed­itor and publisher of the Vineyard Gazette after more than 27 years at the newspaper, Richard Reston this week also named his successor.
Editors
Publishers
July 5, 1996

Founders Vision: To Root a New Newspaper Deep in Island Life

Tom Dunlop
The great storm had wheeled off into the Canadian Maritimes about 45 hours before, leaving a jungle of limbs and power lines almost two stories high on the corner of South Summer street and Davis Lane, just outside the Vineyard Gazette office in Edgartown.
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