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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Advance Publications |
| Founded | 1897 (asWoodbury Daily Times) |
| Ceased publication | 2012 (merged into theSouth Jersey Times) |
| Language | American English |
| Headquarters | 309 S. Broad St. Woodbury, New Jersey 08096 |
| Country | United States |
| Circulation | 22,310 (Mon-Fri) 20,383 (Sat) 24,861 (Sun) (as of 2008)[1] |
| OCLC number | 11218944 |
| Website | www |
TheGloucester County Times (GCT) was a dailynewspaper inWoodbury, New Jersey. It was founded in 1897 and ceased publication in 2012, when it merged with its sister papersToday's Sunbeam andThe News of Cumberland County to form theSouth Jersey Times.[2]
The newspaper was founded as theWoodbury Daily Times in 1897 by J. Frank Wilson. Wilson and his partner C. Walter Hawn served as publishers. Upon Wilson's death, his son J. Frank Wilson, Jr., became managing editor on January 1, 1918. The Wilson family continued to own and run the paper for the next several decades; Jack. H. Wilson served as managing publisher from 1965 to 1972. During this time paper added a Sunday edition and changed its name to theGloucester County Times; it also expanded its coverage to include all of Gloucester County as well asBurlington andSalem counties. The Wilson family sold the paper toHarte-Hanks Newspapers ofSan Antonio, Texas in 1972.[2] Its main competitors wereThe Philadelphia Inquirer across theDelaware River inPennsylvania, and theCourier-Post inSouth Jersey.[3][4][5][6]
Harte-Hanks sold theGloucester County Times toWilliam Dean Singleton andRichard Scudder in 1983, becoming the first paper owned byMediaNews Group.[7]
Advance Publications bought MediaNews' New Jersey and Pennsylvania newspapers in 2000.[8]
In 2012 theTimes was merged with two other Advance Publications papers from theSouth Jersey area,Today's Sunbeam andThe News of Cumberland County, to form theSouth Jersey Times. It published its last issue on November 3, 2012.[2]
