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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Hearst Communications |
| Publisher | Mike DeLuca |
| Founded | 1883 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 345 Main Street,Danbury, Connecticut 06810 USA |
| Circulation | 20,473 Daily 30,637 Sunday (as of 2007)[1] |
| Website | newstimes.com |
The News-Times is a daily newspaper based inDanbury, Connecticut, United States. It is owned and operated by theHearst Corporation.
The paper covers Danbury, a city inFairfield County in southwesternConnecticut, as well as, portions of Litchfield County, including the towns ofBrookfield,New Fairfield,Newtown,Bethel,Ridgefield,Redding,Roxbury,New Milford,Sherman,Kent,Bridgewater,Washington andSouthbury.
The News-Times also owns and operatesThe Greater New Milford Spectrum, a weekly newspaper that covers New Milford, Sherman, Kent, Washington, Bridgewater, and Roxbury.
When it comes to covering different news stories,The News-Times reports on stories at the local,[2] state, and even national level. Most crime stories that are published byThe News-Times are often about events that occurred in the greater Danbury area. Their crime stories range from break-ins to homicides.
The paper's local news coverage ranges from town politics, to infrastructure, to city traditions and events.The News-Times also reports on major stories that take place throughout the state of Connecticut, as well as stories of national interest that have Connecticut roots in them.
The News-Times was founded on September 8, 1883 as theDanbury Evening News byJames Montgomery Bailey. In 1933, it merged with theDanbury Times, which was founded on May 17, 1927, thereafter to be known as theDanbury News-Times. TheOttaway Community Newspapers chain purchased the paper in 1955. Ottaway, which later became a division ofDow Jones & Company, owned the newspaper until November 2006, when its sale to Community Newspaper Holdings was announced.[3]
Five months later, on April 1, 2007, the newspaper, along with the weeklySpectrum, were sold forUS$75 million toHearst Corporation of New York. Hearst also owns theConnecticut Post inBridgeport and the Brooks Community Newspapers chain of weeklies in the lower Fairfield County. The current average daily net press run is 7,511 copies as reported in The Publisher's statement on October 1, 2018.
Dean Singleton, chairman and chief executive officer of MediaNews, toldNews-Times employees that the paper would remain independent of the largerConnecticut Post, even though the Danbury paper’s publisher will report to the publisher of thePost. MediaNews announced that it will also buy theNews-Times building at 333 Main Street, which had not been part of the sale to Community Newspaper Holdings.[4]
On August 8, 2008, the Hearst Corporation acquired theConnecticut Post (Bridgeport, Conn.) and www.ctpost.com, including seven non-daily newspapers, from MediaNews Group, Inc. In addition, they assumed management control of three additional daily newspapers inFairfield County, Conn., includingThe Advocate (Stamford),Greenwich Time (Greenwich), and The News-Times (Danbury). The management of these newspapers had been controlled by the Hearst by MediaNews under a management agreement that began in April 2007.[5]
In 2018,The News-Times editorial office moved from 333 Main Street to 345 Main Street inDanbury.[6]
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