Times West Virginian
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. |
| Publisher | Andy Knicley |
| Editor | Misty Poe |
| Headquarters | 300 Quincy Street Fairmont, West Virginia 26554  United States |
| Circulation | 11,506 daily[1] |
| Website | timeswv.com |
The Times West Virginian is seven-day morning daily newspaper based in Fairmont, West Virginia, and also covering the city of Bridgeport, West Virginia, and surrounding communities in Marion, Monongalia, Taylor and Wetzel counties, West Virginia. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.[2]
Awards
The Times West Virginian was named Newspaper of the Year by its parent company in 2006. Judges said it was "packed full of local stories with and about ordinary people," offering a strong sense of community. The Times competed against a host of other papers owned by CNHI.[3]
Also in 2006, the paper won second place in the general excellence category of the West Virginia Press Association's Better Newspaper's Contest. The paper was beaten by the Inter-Mountain, a daily in Elkins.[4]
Corridor Magazine
In February of 2006, the Times West Virginian launched Corridor Magazine, a regional travel magazine focusing on Monongalia, Harrison, Taylor and Marion counties in West Virginia. The magazine was edited by Hope Stephen, also the paper's managing editor. One of its early senior contributing writers, Mary Wade Burnside, later became a full time staffer at the paper and then was promoted to Corridor's editor in May 2006, after Stephan left the paper.
Corridor is published under the name of Impact Publishing and Marketing.
Federal Labor Investigation
The paper was investigated by the Department of Labor for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Justin McLaughlin, a former reporter who left the paper in June 2006, filed a complaint in the fall of 2006 alleging the paper owed him thousands of dollars in overtime pay. As of May 2007, the investigation remained open.
Justin McLaughlin
McLaughlin left the paper abruptly after a tenure of reporting that exposed the reasons behind the catastrophic failure of a Marion County vacuum sewer system--a failure that left residents in the Greater Marion PSD living with raw sewage in their yards for years. He also wrote a series of reports that exposed abuse in the state's juvenile justice system--reporting that he continued on his personal blog after leaving the paper.
A popular reporter, in that period, McLaughlin earned a 1st Place columnist award from the West Virginia Press Association. He series on the failed sewer system also won a public service award the WVPA. He currently writes the Campus Buzz column for the Dominion Post, in Morgantown, bylined as McLachlan instead of McLaughlin.
External links
References
- ^ CNHI-CAN Circulation, figures for an undetermined date, accessed January 17, 2007.
- ^ Times West Virginian: About Us, accessed January 20, 2007.
- ^ Community Newspaper Holdings, Best of CNHI, accessed May 27, 2007.
- ^ Better Newspaper's Contest, accessed May 27, 2007.