The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana)

Last updated
The Times
TypeDaily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Gannett
EditorMisty Castile
Founded1871
Headquarters401 Market Street
Shreveport, Louisiana, US
Website www.shreveporttimes.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Times is a Gannett daily newspaper based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Its distribution area includes 12 parishes in Northwest Louisiana and three counties in East Texas. Its coverage focuses on issues affecting the Shreveport-Bossier market, and includes investigative reporting, community news, arts and entertainment, government, education, sports, business, and religion, along with local opinion/commentary. Its website provides news updates, videos, photo galleries, forums, blogs, event calendars, entertainment, classifieds, contests, databases, and a regional search engine. Local news content produced by The Times is available on the website at no charge for seven days.

Contents

History

Advertisement for Shreveport Times, 1902 1902 Shreveport Times newspaper advert Louisiana.png
Advertisement for Shreveport Times, 1902

From 1895 to 1991, The Times had competition from the afternoon Monday-Saturday daily, the since defunct Shreveport Journal . The papers were later printed at the same 222 Lake Street address and shared opposite sides of the building, but were entirely separate and independent of the other. Publisher Charles T. Beaird, effective March 30, 1991, closed the Shreveport Journal for financial reasons stemming from sharply reduced circulation. [1] Thereafter, the page opposite the editorial page of The Times, commonly called the op-ed page, was reserved as "The Journal Page" for editorial comment until December 31, 1999.

Following a massive downsizing of newspaper staffs in 2009 [2] in cost-cutting moves across the country, The Times finalized efforts to trim its size as the second Gannett paper to install a Wifag offset press with modified tabloid format popular in Europe known as a Berliner. This format introduction into the U.S gave publishers another way to cut down on newsprint and save money. Prior, The Times had the last letterpresses remaining in the Gannett company, a Goss Headliner installed in 1961. Gannett invested in personnel at this time, bringing together three Rochester of Technology graduates to lead the organization. [3]

Beginning in October 2017, The Times was no longer locally published because the distribution center in Shreveport closed to reduce production and labor costs. The Times instead is printed at another Gannett publication, the Longview News-Journal in Longview, Texas, a commute of 65 miles one-way. The Monroe News-Star, which had been published in Shreveport, is printed at the Jackson Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi. The change is not expected to impact delivery schedules. [4]

Shreveport Times office building on Lake Street in Shreveport Shreveport Times office building MVI 2613.jpg
Shreveport Times office building on Lake Street in Shreveport

Sections

Publications and websites

See also

Related Research Articles

<i>USA Today</i> American national daily newspaper

USA Today is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth in 1980 and launched on September 14, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virginia. Its newspaper is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. The paper's dynamic design influenced the style of local, regional, and national newspapers worldwide through its use of concise reports, colorized images, informational graphics, and inclusion of popular culture stories, among other distinct features.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ark-La-Tex</span> Region in the United States

The Ark-La-Tex is a socio-economic tri-state region where the Southern U.S. states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas join together. The region contains portions of Northwest Louisiana, Northeast Texas, and South Arkansas as well as the extreme southeastern tip of Oklahoma, in McCurtain County, partly centered upon the Red River, which flows along the Texas–Oklahoma state line into Southwestern Arkansas and Northwest Louisiana.

<i>The Ithaca Journal</i> Newspaper in Ithaca, New York

The Ithaca Journal is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper published in Ithaca, New York. It is locally edited and printed in Johnson City, New York, and publishes Monday through Saturday. It has been owned by Gannett since 1912.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">KYTX</span> CBS/CW affiliate in Nacogdoches, Texas

KYTX is a television station licensed to Nacogdoches, Texas, United States, serving East Texas as an affiliate of CBS and The CW Plus. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station has studios near Loop 323 in the southeastern portion of Tyler, and its transmitter is located near State Highway 110 in rural east-central Cherokee County.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">KSLA</span> CBS affiliate in Shreveport, Louisiana

KSLA is a television station in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Gray Television alongside low-power, Class A Telemundo affiliate KTSH-CD. The two stations share studios on Fairfield Avenue and Dashiel Street in central Shreveport; KSLA's transmitter is located near St. Johns Baptist Church Road in rural northern Caddo Parish.

The El Paso Times is the newspaper for the US city of El Paso, Texas. The paper is the only English-language daily in El Paso, but often competes with the Spanish-language El Diario de El Paso, an offshoot of El Diario de Juárez which is published across the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

<i>The News Journal</i> Newspaper from Wilmington, Delaware

The News Journal is a daily newspaper in Wilmington, Delaware. It is headquartered in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, near New Castle, and is owned by Gannett.

The Repository is an American daily local newspaper serving the Canton, Ohio area. It is currently owned by Gannett and is part of the USA TODAY Network.

<i>Alamogordo Daily News</i>

Alamogordo Daily News, founded in 1898, is a daily newspaper published in Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States. It carries local news as well as syndicated content from Associated Press and others.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1953 LSU Tigers football team</span> American college football season

The 1953 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University (LSU) as a member of the Southeastern Conference during the 1953 college football season. Led by sixth-year head coach Gaynell Tinsley, the Tigers compiling an overall record of 5–3–3 with a mark of 2–3–3 in conference play, placing eighth in the SEC.

The 1955 LSU Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Louisiana State University (LSU) as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1955 college football season. In their first year under head coach Paul Dietzel, the Tigers complied an overall record of 3–5–2, with a conference record of 2–3–1, and finished ninth in the SEC.

<i>Public Opinion</i> (Chambersburg, Pennsylvania) Newspaper

The Public Opinion is a morning newspaper that is published seven days per week. It is located in the Greater Chambersburg area and serves readers in Franklin, Cumberland and Fulton counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

<i>Carlsbad Current-Argus</i> Newspaper in Carlsbad, New Mexico

The Carlsbad Current-Argus is a newspaper in Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States. It has been published since 1889. The newspaper, printed in a broadsheet format, is published daily except Mondays.

The 1932 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University (LSU) in the 1932 Southern Conference football season. This was LSU's final season as a member of the Southern Conference, and it won a share of the conference title. After the first two games, all the rest were shutouts either by LSU or the opponent.

The 1933 LSU Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Louisiana State University (LSU) as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1933 college football season. In their second year under head coach Biff Jones, the Tigers complied an overall record of 7–0–3, with a conference record of 3–0–2, and finished second in the SEC. Halfback Abe Mickal led the team in scoring.

The 1934 LSU Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Louisiana State University (LSU) as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1934 college football season. In their third year under head coach Biff Jones, the Tigers complied an overall record of 7–2–2, with a conference record of 4–2, and finished fourth in the SEC.

The 1938 LSU Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Louisiana State University (LSU) as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1938 college football season. In their fourth year under head coach Bernie Moore, the Tigers complied an overall record of 6–4, with a conference record of 2–4, and finished 10th in the SEC.

The 1939 LSU Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Louisiana State University (LSU) as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1939 college football season. In their fifth year under head coach Bernie Moore, the Tigers complied an overall record of 4–5, with a conference record of 1–5, and finished 10th in the SEC.

The 1946 LSU Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Louisiana State University (LSU) in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1946 college football season. In their 12th year under head coach Bernie Moore, the Tigers compiled a 9–1–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 240 to 123. They were ranked No. 6 in the final AP Poll and were invited to play in the 1947 Cotton Bowl Classic where they played a scoreless tie against Arkansas.

References

  1. ↑ "Shreveport Journal ends publication after 96 years:, Minden Press-Herald, March 31, 1991, p. 1.
  2. ↑ Edmonds, Rick (2009-08-17). "Why Newsroom Layoffs Continue Despite Business Improvements". www.poynter.org.
  3. ↑ "– Latest News (frontpage) | RIT". www.rit.edu.
  4. ↑ "News-Star to move printing to Jackson," Monroe News-Star, August 23, 2017.
  5. ↑ "H. M. "Mutt" Fowler". The Shreveport Times. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.