The Concord Monitor is the lone heir to a capital city newspaper tradition that dates back to 1808 and the founding of the American Patriot. Through the years there have been about 10 other Concord daily newspapers, but only the Monitor survives.

The Monitor is part of Newspapers of New England, a locally owned, family-run publishing company that includes newspapers in Peterborough, West Lebanon, Greenfield, MA. and Northampton MA.

One of the Monitor's direct forebears was the New Hampshire Patriot, edited by Isaac Hill. The New Hampshire Patriot merged with the Monitor in 1923, and the Patriot name lives on in the Monitor's masthead.

The Concord Monitor itself has been published continuously since 1864 - the last year before the end of the Civil War.

Notable Monitor leaders over the years have included:

• William E. Chandler, who served as contributing editor for the Monitor for 40 years and was also among the founders of the Republican Party in 1856;
• James McLellan Langley, who edited and published the Monitor from 1923 until 1961;
• George W. Wilson, who became publisher of the Monitor in 1971 and later served as president of NNE;
• Tom Brown, publisher of the Monitor from 1987 until 2005; and
• Mike Pride, editor of the Monitor from 1978 to 2009.

The current publisher is John Winn Miller. The editor is Felice Belman.

Our mission is to provide central New Hampshire residents with an informative, accurate and essential newspaper and online edition, produced with the highest possible quality. The Monitor has been widely recognized throughout the industry as one of the best newspapers in the nation.

Above all, we are committed to our readers. A community newspaper belongs to the community and we believe the Concord Monitor and the Concord Monitor online edition are conduits for discussion and dialogue concerning important issues we face together.