Good Morning Gloucester

Coordinates: 42°36′47″N 70°38′59″W / 42.613141°N 70.649680°W / 42.613141; -70.649680

The Good Morning Gloucester logo.

Good Morning Gloucester is a longstanding blog created by Gloucester, Massachusetts lobster broker Joey Ciaramitaro.[1][2] GMG is a snapshot of living and working on the docks of the oldest commercial fishing harbor in the United States.

History

Good Morning Gloucester began as a daily post on the Cape Ann Online message board. Joey Ciaramitaro would post photographs that he took while walking to the docks before dawn each morning. This thread became unmanageably long and was moved over to a blog in December 2007. Within a year it was recording more than 30,000 visits per month which made it the most active blog on the North Shore of Massachusetts. In 2010 the Good Morning Gloucester blog is now receiving more than 60,000 visitors per month and recorded its one millionth visitor in February, 2010. Since March 2009 the Good Morning Gloucester blog is displayed prominently on the Cape Ann newspaper, The Gloucester Daily Times website front page.[3]

The Good Morning Gloucester float "What Up Homie" won first prize, (uncategorized division), in the 2010 Gloucester Horribles parade on July 3, 2010.

On June 20, 2011 the 29,072 views of Good Morning Gloucester eclipsed the 28,789 population of Gloucester [4]

In May 2015 over 40,000 posts have been published in Good Morning Gloucester.

October 1, 2012, Good Morning GLoucester is now averaging 60,000 unique views per day, twice the population of Cape Ann.

On November 7, 2012 Toby Burnham is awarded the GMG Good Egg of the Year Award for doing what he does every day, being a Good Egg. On Nov 6 Toby grabbed a seagull who had become impaled on a fishing lure and removed the hooks.

In 2014 GMG was viewed over 2.5 million times.

Recurring themes

GMG as Newsbreaker

Awards

References

  1. "Blogger and Lobsterman, Joey Ciaramitaro", March 19, 2010, North Shore Magazine.
  2. "Blogger Joey Ciaramitaro shows the best of the city, from the dock to the block." August 13, 2009, The Cape Ann Beacon
  3. "Community blogs give you even more chances to be heard." March 7, 2009 Gloucester Daily Times
  4. 2010 United States Census Report.
  5. WCVBTV Channel 5 Boston, Three-Clawed Lobster Takes Dealer By Surprise" 7/21/2010
  6. WBZ4 Boston, "Triple Pincher Clawed Lobster Found in Gloucester", 7/19/2010
  7. Digital Journal,"Massachusetts' fisherman catches mutant lobster", 7/21/2010
  8. Yahoo News, , 12/05/2010
  9. Associated Press, 12/05/2010 Lobster Trap Tree Wars
  10. Letter arrives nearly 66 years later. Fox News Boston Mar 28, 2011
  11. Letter's long journey ends, mystery begins Mar 29,2011 Boston Globe
  12. "TV's next Amazing Race gets Gloucester Start" May 27, 2010, The Gloucester Times

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