The Daily Freeman is a seven-day-a-week morning newspaper in Kingston, New York, the Ulster County seat. Kingston is a City in Ulster County, New York, United States. Ulster County is a County located in the state of New York, USA. Serving all of Ulster County and parts of three other counties in the Mid-Hudson Valley, the broadsheet publication has a weekday circulation of approximately 22,000.
In addition to its Uptown Kingston headquarters, the newspaper has offices in Catskill, Greene County; and Rhinebeck, Dutchess County. The Freeman also covers parts of Southwestern Columbia County.
Freeman reporters were recognized by the New York State Associated Press Association in 2005 for coverage of a shooting at the Hudson Valley Mall Feb. Hudson Valley Mall is a Shopping mall located in Kingston New York. 13 of that year and for a series of articles on severe flooding that occurred the following month. Other prominent news events covered by the newspaper include the Woodstock '94 music festival and the marijuana arrests (in 2004 and 2005) of singer Art Garfunkel. Woodstock '94 was a Music festival organized in order to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock Festival of 1969. Arthur Ira Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American Singer-songwriter and Actor of Romanian Jewish ancestry
The Freeman is a unionized newspaper. Employees are represented by The Kingston Newspaper Guild. The paper is owned by the Journal Register Company of Yardley, Pa. The Journal Register Company is an American media company specializing in Newspaper Publishing.