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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | USA Today Co. |
| Founder | 1886; 140 years ago (1886) |
| Managing editor | Keith Demko |
| Headquarters | Salisbury, Maryland, United States |
| Circulation | 16,500 |
| ISSN | 0331-2739 |
| OCLC number | 9958506 |
| Website | delmarvanow |
The Daily Times is a morning daily English-language (broadsheet) publication based inSalisbury, Maryland, United States, and primarily covers Wicomico, Worcester, and Somerset counties, and regional coverage across the Delmarva Peninsula. It has been aUSA Today Co. publication since 2002. The online news product is Delmarva Now.
The Daily Times was first owned by the Truitt family of Salisbury, Maryland. It was sold toBrush-Moore Newspapers of Canton, Ohio, in 1937; 30 years later, Brush-Moore was sold toThomson Newspapers of Toronto, Canada.Gannett bought the paper from Thomson in 2000.
The paper began publication in 1886 asThe Wicomico News, a weekly.[1] On December 3, 1923, it became a daily and becameThe Evening Times and laterThe Salisbury Times, theShoreman's Daily. It changed its Sunday name toThe Sunday Times on October 22, 1967, to reflect its Sunday publication, while maintaining a five-day publication still known asThe Daily Times. It became a morning publication on October 2, 1989. later, it dropped the name on Sunday and printed seven days a week under the name ofThe Daily Times.
In 2025, the paper switched from carrier to postal delivery.[2]
The paper was located on Main St. in downtown Salisbury, Maryland, for years, at a site that later became a men's apparel store. A new building was constructed on what was Upton St. (now Carroll Street), across from the Peninsula General Medical Center. The paper's home was on a site that had been the old Wicomico High School and before that in the 1860s, a Union encampment during the Civil War. The school was demolished[citation needed] to build a modern newspaper plant built in 1957. Photos of the open house on Upton Street are in the Nabbs Research Center atSalisbury University, along with photographs and several other items from the paper.
In 2008, the building was sold to the Peninsula Regional Medical Center for $1.8 million,[3] and the paper moved to a site on Beam Street in the Northwood Industrial Park, north of Salisbury, where it purchased a building and installed a multimillion-dollar press.
On January 29, 2011, Delmarva Media Group announced that printing ofThe Daily Times, and other weekly publications, would be transferred toThe News Journal's production facility inWilmington, Delaware. Due to the move, 17 production jobs were eliminated.[4]
From October 30, 2017, to February 2023, the newspaper had offices in downtown Salisbury at 115 S. Division St. at the former Salisbury Fire Department Station 16, which was formerly Headquarters Live music venue.[5][6][7]
Its first editor was Charles J. Truitt, who owned the paper with his cousin, Alfred Truitt. Editors followed included: Oscar L. Morris, Richard L. Moore, Mel Toadvine, Gary Grossman, Greg Bassett, Mike Kilian, Ted Shockley,[8] David Ledford, Laura Benedict Sileo,[9] and Keith Demko.[10]
Alfred Truitt was its first publisher. Others who followed included Thomas D.Irvin, Dean Farmer, and Edward "Ed" White, Terry Hoppins, Keith Blevins, Larry Jock, Joni Silverstein, Rick Jensen, Greg Bassett, Tom Claybaugh, Bill Janus and Ronald(Ron) Pousson. A regional publisher now overseesThe Daily Times.
In addition to the daily paper, special and seasonal publications and special inserts,The Daily Times is responsible for the publication of an assortment of associated regional weekly papers (see below).[1] TheTimes and its associated broadsheets and weekly tabloids were branded the Strategic Marketing Group in 2001, and rebranded as the Delmarva Peninsula Media Group in 2006.[citation needed] The DMG serves a readership that covers Sussex County, Delaware; Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester counties in Maryland; and Accomack and Northampton counties in Virginia.
