The Oxford Times

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The Oxford Times
Oxford Times Cover.jpg
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Compact
Owner(s) Newsquest
EditorGary Lawrence
Founded1862
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersNewspaper House, Osney Mead, Oxford
Circulation 3,482 (print), 30 million+ (online, Times & Mail)(as of 2023) [1] [2]
Website theoxfordtimes.net

The Oxford Times is a weekly newspaper, published each Thursday in Oxford, England. The paper is published from a large production facility at Osney Mead, west Oxford, and is owned by Newsquest, the UK subsidiary of US-based Gannett Company.

Contents

The Oxford Times has a number of colour supplements. Oxfordshire Limited Edition is included with the first edition of each month. There is also a monthly In Business supplement.

The Oxford Times has several sister publications:

History

The Oxford Times was founded in 1862 as a weekly broadsheet. [3] [4]

In 1922, T.E. Lawrence (known as Lawrence of Arabia) commissioned The Oxford Times to typeset and print an advance private edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom . This is known as the "1922 Edition" or the "Oxford Text" of Seven Pillars.

The Oxford Times has won a number of national awards including Regional Weekly Newspaper of the Year in 2004, [5] 2005, [6] and 2007. [7]

Originally a broadsheet, it switched to the compact format in 2008. Until 24 October 2008, the paper was published each Friday. Since then, it is published each Thursday.

Over time, through the emergence of digitization and online news, print circulation gradually declined (from 26,262 in 2006 to 3,482 in 2023) while online circulation increased (30 million+, Oxford Times & Mail). [8] [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 The Oxford Times Circulation Data, Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)
  2. 1 2 Oxford Mail Award - 30 million plus online readers
  3. Oxford Mail Library. Oxfordshire County Council - History Centre.
  4. The Oxford Times. BNA - British Newspaper Archive.
  5. Awards 2004, Newspaper Awards UK
  6. Awards 2005, Newspaper Awards UK
  7. Awards 2007, Newspaper Awards UK
  8. Oxford Times Historical Print Circulation Data. TIO - This Is Oxfordshire.