TheEl Paso Times is the newspaper for the US city ofEl Paso, Texas. The paper is the only English-language daily in El Paso (after theEl Paso Herald-Post, an afternoon paper, closed in 1997), but often competes with the Spanish-languageEl Diario de El Paso, an offshoot ofEl Diario de Juárez which is published across the Rio Grande inCiudad Juárez, Mexico.
The paper was founded in 1881 by Marcellus Washington Carrico. TheTimes first published April 2, 1881. It originally started out as a weekly but within a year's time, it became the daily newspaper for thefrontier town.
Gannett bought theTimes in 1972.[2] In 2003, Gannett andMediaNews Group formed a partnership between theTimes and MediaNews' New Mexico papers, with Gannett as the managing partner.[3] In December 2005, Gannett became a minority partner in theEl Paso Times, handing the majority of the partnership and management to Denver-based MediaNews Group.[4] In 2015, Gannett acquired full ownership of the Texas-New Mexico Newspapers Partnership from MediaNews successorDigital First Media.[5] Later that year, Gannett split into two, with one having broadcasting and digital properties (Tegna) and another with newspapers (the new Gannett). The latter retained theTimes.
Barbara Funkhouser served as editor of theEl Paso Times from 1980 to 1986, the first woman to hold that position.[6] Zahira Torres became the editor of the paper in 2017, making her the second woman and first Latina to lead theEl Paso Times.[7]
Living: local and national feature stories including rotating sections covering senior citizens, religion, popular culture, the arts, books, health, home decor, entertainment news, local music and fashion
Tiempo: a weekly entertainment guide, published on Fridays, which includes concerts, movies, galleries, restaurant reviews and other entertainment related stories
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