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Article: Paul Massey; newspaperman led Dedham Daily Transcript
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2009
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Paul Massey was born to be in newspapers.
The third son of a foreman with the Lowell Sun and the Waltham
News Tribune, Mr. Massey ran the Daily Transcript in Dedham for 14
years and later headed a collection of about 20 weekly papers in
the Cleveland suburbs and the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in Alaska.
Three days after the Transcript ceased daily publication, Mr.
Massey died in his sleep Sept. 28 while vacationing in Germany. He
was 75.
Born in Lowell, Mr. Massey lived in Lexington and Waltham before
his family settled in Dedham when he was 7.
There, Mr. Massey's father, Frank, purchased the local paper in
1945 and later hired his son as a typesetter.
In 1972, Mr. Massey became the ...