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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | MediaNews Group |
| Publisher | MediaNews Group |
| Editor | Larry Holeva |
| Founded | Scranton Times: 1870 Scranton Tribune: 1891 (but with heritage dating to 1856) Times-Tribune: 2005 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 149 Penn Ave. Scranton, Pennsylvania 18503 United States |
| Circulation | 24,434 (as of September 2022)[1] |
| ISSN | 1930-6377 |
| Website | www |
The Scranton Times-Tribune is a morning newspaper serving theScranton, Pennsylvania, area. Until August 2023, it was the flagship title ofTimes-Shamrock Communications and run by three generations of the Lynett-Haggerty family. It is now owned byMediaNews Group, a subsidiary ofAlden Global Capital.[2]
On Sundays, the paper is published asThe Sunday Times. In the 12 months preceding September 2022, the paper had a daily average circulation of 24,434.[1]
The current paper is the result of a 2005 merger between the afternoonScranton Times and morningScranton Tribune.
TheTimes was founded in 1870. It struggled under six owners before E. J. Lynett bought the paper in 1895. Within 20 years, theTimes was the dominant newspaper in northeastern Pennsylvania, and the third-largest in the state (behind only thePhiladelphia Inquirer and thePittsburgh Press). In January 1923, Lynett founded one of Scranton's first radio stations, WQAN.[3] The Lynett family still owns the station today under the callsWEJL.
Lynett died in 1943. His three children took control of the paper with William R. Lynett, the oldest, as publisher and editor. He died in 1946; siblings Edward J. and Elizabeth R. Lynett took over as co-publishers, with Edward J. as editor. Edward J. Lynett died in 1966, and his four children took over. Shortly after they took over, theTimes expanded to a full week with the appearance ofThe Sunday Times.[4]
In 1990, theTimes bought the remains of its principal rival, the morningScrantonian-Tribune. This paper had been founded in 1891 as theScranton Tribune. In 1910, it merged with Scranton's first newspaper,The Morning Republican, and changed its name to theScranton Republican. AfterLouis A. Watres andLaurence Hawley Watres sold theRepublican in 1934, it became theScranton Tribune once again in 1936.[5] In 1938, Richard Little, owner of Scranton's Sunday paper,The Scrantonian (founded 1897), teamed up with Morris L. Goodman to buy theTribune as well. The Goodman-Little family partnership continued for almost half a century, until Richard Little III sold his interest to the Goodmans in 1986. Only a year later, Media One Corporation (no relation to thecable company) bought out the Goodmans and merged the two papers into one seven-day morning paper,The Scrantonian-Tribune. However, Media One was unable to turn the paper around. In 1990, it shuttered the paper.[4] The Lynetts bought theScrantonian-Tribune nameplate and some other assets, and relaunched the paper as theScranton Tribune, with much of the same content as theTimes (except for timely editing).
By 2004, it was obvious that Scranton could no longer support a morning and afternoon paper, and the Lynetts announced that their two papers would merge into one morning paper,The Times-Tribune. The new paper first rolled off the presses on July 27, 2005. However, its legal name for some years afterward was stillThe Scranton Times; until the Lynetts sold the papter, the licensee for sister radio station WEJL and its satellites was "The Scranton Times L. P."
In April 2023, the newspaper ceased offering a print edition on Mondays. Instead, a digital version would be offered that day.[6] That August, Times-Shamrock Communications sold theTimes-Tribune and three other daily newspapers toMediaNews Group, earning a handsome return on E. J. Lynett's purchase of 128 years earlier.[2]
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TheTimes endorsedGeorge W. Bush in 2000 but did not endorse anyone in 2004.The Times-Tribune endorsedBarack Obama in 2008 and 2012. The paper endorsedHillary Clinton in 2016, then native ScrantonianJoe Biden in 2020.[7][8]
The Scranton Times won thePulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1946, while theScranton Tribune andScrantonian (then separately owned) won the prize for Local Reporting in 1959.[9][10]
Average No. Copies Each issue during preceding 12 months ... Total No. Copies Printed (net Press Run) ... 24,434
