Times Community Media

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Times Community Media
TypeWeekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
PublisherArthur W. Arundel
Language English
Headquarters Herndon, Virginia, Virginia
Website www.timescommunity.com

Times Community Media (TCM) is a group of contiguous weeklies in Northern Virginia, United States, and the Piedmont, United States.

Based in Herndon, Virginia, [1] the newspaper group provides local news in the Virginia suburbs outside Washington, D.C. With more than 200 years of local newspaper history[ clarification needed ], the company grew by focusing on local news. As of 2008, the Times Community Newspapers 240,000 households in Northern Virginia. [2] TCM is a co-owner of the Washington Suburban Press Network, which is also a group of regional community newspapers. [3]

In 1962, the company was founded by Arthur W. Arundel. Arundel purchased the 165-year-old Loudoun Times-Mirror in Leesburg in 1963. [4] The company has grown ever since, and now owns the following newspapers:

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