Bangor Daily News

The Bangor Daily News (BDN) is an American newspaper covering a large portion of central and eastern Maine, published six days per week in Bangor, Maine. The Bangor Daily News was founded on June 18, 1889; it merged with the Bangor Whig and Courier in 1900. The paper is published by Bangor Publishing Company, a local family-owned company. BDN has been owned by the Towle-Warren family for four generations; current publisher Richard J. Warren is the great-grandson of J. Norman Towle, who bought the paper in 1895.