The Express-Times

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The Express-Times
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The Express-Times building in Easton, November 2009
TypeDaily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Advance Publications
PresidentSteve Alessi
EditorNick Falsone
Sports editorKyle Craig
Founded1855 as The Easton Daily Express
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters18 Centre Square, Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Website lehighvalleylive.com

The Express-Times is a daily newspaper based in Easton, Pennsylvania. The newspaper provides national news and extensive local news coverage of the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855, The Express-Times is the longest continuously published newspaper in the Lehigh Valley.

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The paper has won awards in both New Jersey [1] and Pennsylvania. In 2021, it won the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting. [2] [3]

History

First printed 1855 as The Easton Daily Express, the name changed to The Easton Express in 1917 and was abbreviated to The Express in 1973. In 1991, The Express merged with The Globe-Times of Bethlehem to become The Express-Times.

Thomson Newspapers bought The Express of Easton in 1983. The paper took on its current name when the Globe-Times of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, merged with The Express. MediaNews Group bought The Express-Times from Thomson in 1994. Current owner Advance Publications bought MediaNews' New Jersey and Pennsylvania newspapers in 2000. [4]

The Express-Times is also available online at lehighvalleylive.com. [5]

In 2023, The Express-Times joined The Morning Call in dropping their circulation of the Dilbert comic after Scott Adams, the comic's creator, told white people to "get the hell away from [black people]" on a YouTube live stream in response to a public opinion poll by the conservative-learning Rasmussen Reports, which found that 26% of Black respondents disagreed with the statement that it's okay to be white. [6] [7]

The paper announced it will discontinue its print edition starting in February 2025. [8]

Distribution

The Express-Times publishes zoned editions in the Lehigh Valley and New Jersey. It delivers to Lehigh and Northampton counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in northwest New Jersey.

Sections

The Express-Times has four editorial sections:

Inserts

The following are inserted into The Express-Times during the week:

Other publications

The Express-Times also publishes a weekly, The US, based in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

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