Erie Times-News
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 The April 23, 2008 front page of the Erie Times-News |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | The Mead family since 1888 |
| Publisher | Rosanne Cheeseman |
| Editor | Rick Sayers |
| Founded | April 18, 1888 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 205 West 12th Street Erie, Pennsylvania 16534  United States |
| Circulation | 56,124 (Daily)[1] 55,019 (Saturday)[1] 75,680 (Sunday)[1] |
| Official website | goerie.com |
The Erie Times-News is a daily morning newspaper in Erie, Pennsylvania. It has a daily circulation of about 56,124[1] and a Sunday circulation of about 75,680[1]. The newspaper focuses primarily on Erie County, but also has readers in Crawford County to the south and even New York and Ohio, the states that border Erie County on the east and west respectively.
The Erie Times-News is published by the city's Times Publishing Company, not to be confused with, St. Petersburg, Florida-based Times Publishing Company.
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[edit] The beginning
The newspaper was founded as the Erie Daily Times on April 12, 1888, by nine printers involved in a labor dispute at another newspaper. They each invested $25 to establish the Times Publishing Company, which was initially located in a cellar at the corner of 9th Street and State Street. John J. Mead, Sr., one of the founders, eventually bought out his partners. The Mead family, which owns the Times company to this day, headed the newspaper until August 2003. [2]
The newspaper relocated to West 10th Street and Peach Street on April 12, 1924.[2]
[edit] One company, two newspapers
The Times Publishing Company bought out the rival Erie Dispatch Herald in 1956 and co-located the two newspapers' staffs in 1957 in the Dispatch Herald's building at East 12th and French streets. On January 7, 1957, the Erie Morning News made its debut. The Times Publishing Company built a new plant, housing a Goss offset press, at 205 West 12th Street, moving there on June 6, 1970. As it had done since 1957, the company kept the editorial departments of the "Morning News" (The "Erie" was removed from the name during the 1960s) and the "Erie Daily Times" separate. The other departments served the entire operation. News and sports reporters shared desks, coming in on separate shifts. Members of both staffs manned the Sunday "Times-News." In 1977, the two Saturday editions were combined into the "Times-News Weekender," a paper staffed only by "Morning News" reporters and editors. The company published the Morning News and the afternoon Erie Daily Times until September 29, 2000, and September 1, 2000, respectively. The company merged the two staffs and operations into the present-day Erie Times-News, which was first published on October 2, 2000.[2]
[edit] The Times-News today
Since the merger, the Meads have gradually shifted day-to-day leadership of the newspaper outside the family. In August 2003, company Vice President James E. Dible was promoted to chief executive officer, president and publisher, succeeding the retiring Michael Mead, a grandson of the company founder. At about the same time, Michael Mead's first cousin, Edward M. Mead, stepped down as editor, turning over leadership of the newsroom to Executive Editor Rick Sayers. Both Edward and Michael Mead continue to serve on the company's board of directors, the former as its chairman emeritus.
The Erie Times-News was named the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association's 2003 "Newspaper of the Year".[2] PNA awarded second place to the newspaper in 2006. [3]
On January 16, 2006, the paper announced it was eliminating 24 positions immediately and would eliminate another 11 by February 3, leaving the Erie Times-News with about 250 employees. The paper also killed two of its three "Neighbors" zoned editions, a move that accounted for almost half of the initial 24 job cuts. Dible cited flat revenues and rising costs as the reason for the layoffs.
In September 2006, John Mead Flanagin was named chairman of the board. Flanagin is the first fourth-generation member of the Mead family to hold the position.
On September 13, 2007, the Erie Times-News named Roseanne Cheeseman to replace the retiring James Dible as CEO and publisher of the newspaper as of October 1, 2007.[4] [2]
On October 6, 2009, the Times News announced that it had been awarded the "Newspaper of the Year" once again. The articles written about the Recession that were published in March and April were awarded honors as well.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e "eCirculation for Newspapers". Audit Bureau of Circulations. September 30, 2008. http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/newsform.asp. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
- ^ a b c d e Martin, Jim (12 April 2008). "120 Years of Changing Times". Erie Times-News: pp. 1A, 4A. http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008804120376.
- ^ PNA Newspaper of the Year Awards
- ^ Palattella, Ed (2007-09-13). "Times-News publisher to retire; successor named". Erie Times-News. http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070913/NEWS02/70913026. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
[edit] External links
- GoErie.com, the online edition of the Erie Times-News.
