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| Type | Tabloid-sized newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | Sightline Media Group |
| Publisher | Michael Reinstein |
| Founded | 1947 (1947) |
| Headquarters | 6883 Commercial Drive,Springfield, Virginia 22159, United States |
| Circulation | 53,057 (June 2013)[1] |
| ISSN | 0002-2403 |
| Website | airforcetimes |
Air Force Times is a newspaper published 26 times per year to provide active, reserve and retiredUnited States Air Force andAir National Guard personnel and their families with news, information, analysis, community and lifestyle features, educational supplements, and resource guides. It is published by theSightline Media Group, which is a part ofRegent.
The publication was founded in 1947 by theArmy Times Publishing Company, later called the Times Journal Company.[2] Some years after ATPCO was sold toGannett in 1997, the company was renamed Gannett Government Media. In 2015, the company was spun off into one of the digital properties ofTEGNA, Inc. and renamed Sightline Media Group. In March 2016, TEGNA sold Sightline toRegent, a Los Angeles-basedprivate equity firm controlled by investorMichael Reinstein.[3]
Each year,Air Force Times names an Airman of the Year, nominated by his peers and honored at a ceremony on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C.[4]
Air Force Times was founded by Mel Ryder, who began his newspaper career during World War I, selling and deliveringStars and Stripes to troops on the front lines. In 1921, Ryder joinedWillard Kiplinger in forming the Kiplinger Agency newsletter service. He sold his interest in the agency in 1933 and began publishingHappy Days, a paper written for members of theCivilian Conservation Corps; his first order was for 400 copies and the first advertiser wasGEICO. In the 1940s, Ryder foundedArmy Times, with reporters covering the U.S. Army Air Corps and U.S. Army Air Forces. With the creation of the U.S. Air Force in 1947 came the birth ofAir Force Times as a separate newspaper.[5]
As of 2007, according to Military Times figures, one in four subscribers was a member of the active-duty Air Force, while nearly one in 10 subscribers was a member of theAir Force Reserve. Weekly newsstand buyers totaled some 11,600, with 79 percent of newsstand sales to members of the active-duty Air Force and 9 percent to members of theAir Force Reserve.[6]
In 2009, weekly subscribers totaled 43,800, with a total readership about one-third larger.[6]
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