| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Gannett |
| Editor | Misty Castile |
| Founded | 1871 |
| Headquarters | 401 Market Street Shreveport, Louisiana, US |
| Website | www |
The Times is aGannett dailynewspaper based inShreveport, Louisiana. Its distribution area includes 12parishes in NorthwestLouisiana and three counties inEast Texas. Its coverage focuses on issues affecting the Shreveport-Bossier market, and includes investigative reporting, community news, arts and entertainment, government, education, sports, business, and religion, along with local opinion/commentary. Its website provides news updates, videos, photo galleries, forums, blogs, event calendars, entertainment, classifieds, contests, databases, and a regional search engine. Local news content produced byThe Times is available on the website at no charge for seven days.
From 1895 to 1991,The Times had competition from the afternoon Monday-Saturday daily, the since defunctShreveport Journal. The papers were later printed at the same 222 Lake Street address and shared opposite sides of the building, but were entirely separate and independent of the other. Publisher Charles T. Beaird, effective March 30, 1991, closed theShreveport Journal for financial reasons stemming from sharply reduced circulation.[1] Thereafter, the page opposite the editorial page ofThe Times, commonly called theop-ed page, was reserved as "The Journal Page" for editorial comment until December 31, 1999.
Following a massive downsizing of newspaper staffs in 2009[2] in cost-cutting moves across the country, The Times finalized efforts to trim its size as the second Gannett paper to install a Wifag offset press with modified tabloid format popular in Europe known as aBerliner. This format introduction into the U.S gave publishers another way to cut down on newsprint and save money. Prior, The Times had the last letterpresses remaining in the Gannett company, a Goss Headliner installed in 1961. Gannett invested in personnel at this time, bringing together threeRochester of Technology graduates to lead the organization.[3]
Beginning in October 2017,The Times was no longer locally published because the distribution center in Shreveport closed to reduce production and labor costs.The Times instead is printed at another Gannett publication, theLongview News-Journal inLongview, Texas, a commute of 65 miles one-way.The Monroe News-Star, which had been published in Shreveport, is printed at theJackson Clarion-Ledger inJackson, Mississippi. The change is not expected to impact delivery schedules.[4]
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