| Traverse City Record-Eagle | |
| Type: | Daily newspaper |
| Format: | Broadsheet |
| Foundation: | 1858 as the Grand Traverse Herald |
| Owners: | CNHI |
| Publisher: | Paul J. Heidbreder |
| Editor: | Rebecca Pierce |
| Circulation: | 17,209 Daily 21,846 Sunday |
| Circulation Date: | 2022 |
| Circulation Ref: | [1] |
| Headquarters: | 120 West Front Street, Traverse City, Michigan 49685, United States |
| Website: | record-eagle.com |
The Traverse City Record-Eagle is a daily morning newspaper based in Traverse City, Michigan. It calls itself "Northern Michigan's Newspaper" [2] and is the newspaper of record for Grand Traverse County.
The newspaper was owned by Dow Jones & Company, also publishers of the Wall Street Journal. On August 28, 2006, Dow Jones announced they were putting the Record-Eagle up for sale, and the paper eventually was purchased by CNHI.
The circulation area of the Record-Eagle covers much of northern Michigan, with a particular emphasis on counties adjacent to Greater Traverse City. In all it services 13 counties -- namely Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Crawford, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Manistee, Missaukee, Otsego and Wexford counties, and limited portions of neighboring counties -- in the northwest lower peninsula.[3]
Associated publications of The Record-Eagle include: community weekly North Coast; the monthly tabloid Grand Traverse Scene; a monthly real estate guide; and specialty sections throughout the year.
While the economy of Michigan as a whole has been characterized as stagnant or declining, the Traverse City area demonstrated significant population growth in the 2000s.
The Traverse City area's economy centers on four-season recreation, retirement living, tourism, higher education, and Native American gaming, and the newspaper covers these concerns. Their editorial board often writes aggressively on environmental issues, with a particular emphasis on the ecology of the Great Lakes, anti-development in the region and liberal political issues.
In October 2005, the Michigan Press Association named the Record-Eagle the "Newspaper of the Year" for newspapers with daily circulations between 15,001 and 40,000. In 2005, the Record-Eagle told the Media Management Center (Northwestern University) that its daily circulation was 29,341. [4]
In 2006, Suburban Newspapers of America named the Record-Eagles flagship Web site, Record-Eagle.com, the Best Community News Site in its class (newspapers with circulation under 40,000), and also awarded the site Best Site Architecture and Design.