Times Leader

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Times Leader

description local American newspaper
language English
publishing company Avant Publications
Frequency of publication Every day
Sold edition 16,641 copies
(Alliance for Audited Media, third quarter 2018)
Editor-in-chief Joe Soprano
editor Mike Murray
Web link timesleader.com
ISSN (print) 0199-0519

The Times Leader , sometimes also Wilkes-Barre Times Leader , is a local newspaper that appears daily in Wilkes-Barre in the US state of Pennsylvania . It shares the market with a second daily newspaper, The Citizens' Voice .

distribution

According to the Alliance for Audited Media on September 30, 2012, the Times Leader had a circulation of 38,838 copies on weekdays and 30,757 copies on Saturdays. 43,432 copies of the Sunday edition were printed.

Six years later, in late summer 2018, the circulation was 16,641 newspapers on weekdays and 20,501 on Sundays.

history

In Wilkes-Barre a daily newspaper called Times was published since 1893 , which from 1898 received competition in the form of the leader , which also appeared in the afternoon . In 1907 the owners of the two newspapers, Fred C. Kirkendall and Ernest G. Smith, agreed to merge their publications under the umbrella of a joint publisher, the Leader Publishing Company . Times Leader was chosen as the name of the new newspaper, which appears six days a week . The first edition appeared on December 2, 1907.

A strike in the fall of 1938 forced the publication to be discontinued: after the Times Leader edition of October 4, 1938, the next edition did not appear until April 4, 1939. On May 1, 1939, the Times Leader merged with the rival local newspapers Wilkes-Barre Record and Evening News , all of which came under one publisher called the Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company . While Times Leader and The Evening News were combined to form the afternoon daily Times Leader, the Evening News , the Wilkes-Barre Record remained as a separate morning paper. It was not until the June 27, 1972 issue that the two publications were combined to form the Wilkes Barre Times Leader / The Evening News / Wilkes-Barre Record .

In May 1978, the media group Capital Cities Communications acquired the Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company and its daily newspaper for $ 10.5 million , which was renamed The Times Leader shortly afterwards . Conflicts arose between the new owner and the newspaper's workforce, which was largely organized into four unions, about working conditions, pay and editorial orientation. In a climate of mutual distrust, Capital Cities commissioned a security company, the Wackenhut Corporation , to monitor employees in the editorial building in the summer of 1978 , to secure the company premises with a 3.5 m high fence and to draw up "emergency plans" for them the case of strikes. This was interpreted by the unionized newspaper workers as an attempt to intimidate them before the upcoming collective bargaining negotiations. After no agreement could be reached on the extension of a collective agreement that expired on September 30, 1978, the four unions called on October 6, 1978 for a stoppage of work . Around 210 employees, a large part of the workforce, answered the call. Some of the strikers started their own newspaper, The Citizens' Voice . This should only appear for the duration of the strike and strengthen the negotiating position with the editors of the Times Leader through financial competition . Due to the change of numerous readers to Citizens' Voice , the circulation of the Times Leader fell significantly, but with around 20 remaining employees and around 100 gradually hired, the company was able to continue operations and, after a four-day break, a weekday edition was printed again. The strike was ultimately ended after more than four years when the four trade unions were gradually deprived of their power of representation.

The owner of the Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company , now renamed Capital Cities / ABC , was acquired in 1996 by the Walt Disney Company . On April 4, 1997 it was announced that Disney would sell the Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company with the Times Leader and three other daily newspapers acquired with Capital Cities - the largest of which the Kansas City Star - to the media group Knight Ridder for 1.65 billion dollars . Knight Ridder was in turn taken over by the McClatchy Company in March 2006 . In June 2006 Richard L. Connor, editor of the Times Leader from 1978 to 1986, acquired the Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company and the Times Leader from McClatchy with local investors and investment company HM Capital Partners . In 2012 the publishing house , which has been operating as Impressions Media since 2011 , was sold to Civitas Media , owner of various local newspapers. Civitas, in turn, sold Impressions Media and the Times Leader 2019 to the North Carolina- based media group Avant Publications .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bob Kalinowski: The Strike That Launched the Citizens' Voice . In: The Citizens' Voice . October 7, 2018, ISSN  1070-8626 (English, full text ).
  2. ^ A b Thomas Keil, Jacqueline M. Keil: Anthracite's Demise and the Post-Coal Economy of Northeastern Pennsylvania . Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, ISBN 978-1-61146-176-3 , pp. 88-89 (English).
  3. ↑ Wilkes-Barre Times Leader ([Wilkes-Barre, Pa.]) 1907-1939. In: Catalog of the Library of Congress. Library of Congress , accessed June 26, 2020 .
  4. ^ Wilkes-Barre Times (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) 1893-1907. In: Catalog of the Library of Congress. Library of Congress , accessed June 26, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Wilkes-Barre Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) 1898-1907. In: Catalog of the Library of Congress. Library of Congress , accessed June 26, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b About Us - Times Leader. Times Leader, accessed July 3, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the Evening News ([Wilkes-Barre, Pa.]) 1939-1972. In: Catalog of the Library of Congress. Library of Congress , accessed June 26, 2020 .
  8. ^ The Evening News (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) 1909-1939. In: Catalog of the Library of Congress. Library of Congress , accessed June 26, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the Evening News, Wilkes-Barre Record ([Wilkes-Barre, Pa.]) 1972-1978. In: Catalog of the Library of Congress. Library of Congress , accessed June 26, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Dennis W. Mazzocco: Networks of Power: Corporate TV's Threat to Democracy . South End Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-89608-472-8 , pp. 71-75 (English).
  11. ↑ Gregory Jaynes: Paper Strike in Wilkes-Barre Grows Bitter . In: The New York Times . November 19, 1978, ISSN  0362-4331 , p. 28 (English, full text ).
  12. ↑ A bitter, four-year labor dispute between four striking unions ... United Press International , October 28, 1982, accessed June 26, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Joseph B. Treaster: Knight-Ridder to Buy 4 Newspapers From Disney for $ 1.65 Billion . In: The New York Times . April 5, 1997, ISSN  0362-4331 , p. 35 (English, full text ).
  14. ^ McClatchy to Sell Wilkes-Barre Times Leader to Investor Group Led by Richard Connor and HM Capital Partners. United States Securities and Exchange Commission , June 26, 2006, accessed June 26, 2020 .
  15. ^ Times Leader newspaper in Pennsylvania sold to Avant. Associated Press , August 2, 2019, accessed June 26, 2020 .