Hall of Fame - John Nash
John Nash
Westfield Evening Citizen
Now retired, John Nash has long been regarded as an astute businessman and respected manager. He started out by buying the Ridgefield (Connecticut) Press with his brother Karl in 1937. Over the years he bought and sold interests in several papers including the Litchfield Enquirer, the New Milford Times and the Winstead Evening Citizen. Among the papers he started up were the Brookfield (Connecticut) Journal and the Bethel Home-News. After buying the Westfield (Massachusetts) News-Advertiser in 1971, he converted the paper to a daily. During his long and profitable career, Nash's papers won numerous awards for general excellence in New England and nationally. He was among the first publishers in New England to see the wisdom of converting to the then "untested" offset printing process.