Princeton Times

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Princeton Times
Type Weekly newspaper
Owner(s)Community Newspaper Holdings
Founded1961
Headquarters213 South Walker Street, Princeton, WV
Circulation 1,390(as of 2016) [1]
Website ptonline.net

The Princeton Times is a newspaper serving Princeton, West Virginia, and surrounding Mercer County. [2] Published weekly on Fridays, [3] it has a circulation of 1,390 and is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings. [4]

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History

The paper was launched as a daily in July 1961 with the help of Mercer County residents, 300 of whom bought stock in the new venture. [5] Howard Imboden was set up as publisher. The paper was soon sold to southern firm holding over 30 local newspapers, citing need for more capital investment. [5] It dropped its Sunday edition in 1963 and shifted to weekly publication in August 1964. [6]

In August 2018, the paper took third place for its division in General Excellence in the West Virginia Press Association's Better Newspaper Awards. [7]

References

  1. ↑ 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  2. ↑ "Newspapers Currently Received in the West Virginia Archives and History Library" (PDF). West Virginia Division of Culture and History. State of West Virginia. December 2016.
  3. ↑ "About Us". Princeton Times. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  5. 1 2 "Southern Firm Buys Mercer Paper". Beckley Post-Herald. January 20, 1963.
  6. ↑ "Princeton Times, A Daily, To Become Weekly Paper". Beckley Post-Herald. August 6, 1964.
  7. ↑ "Register-Herald scores with W.Va. Press Association". Register-Herald. August 12, 2018.


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