The News-Times is a 30,000-circulation daily newspaper in
Danbury,
Connecticut,
United States. It is owned and operated by the
Hearst Corporation, a
multinational corporate
media conglomerate with $4 billion in revenues.
The paper covers greater Danbury, a city in
Fairfield County in southwestern
Connecticut. Other towns covered include
Brookfield,
New Fairfield,
Newtown,
Bethel,
Ridgefield,
Redding,
Roxbury,
New Milford,
Sherman and
Kent, Connecticut; and
Brewster, New York.
In addition to its Danbury headquarters,
The News-Times maintains a news bureau in New Milford.
The News-Times also owns and operates
The Greater New Milford Spectrum, a weekly newspaper that covers
Roxbury,
New Milford,
Sherman,
Kent,
Washington and
Bridgewater, Connecticut.
History
The
Ottaway Community Newspapers chain purchased the paper in 1955. Ottaway, which later became a division of
Dow Jones & Company, owned the newspaper until November
2006, when its sale to Community Newspaper Holdings was announced.
Five months later, on
April 1,
2007, the newspaper, along with the weekly
Spectrum, was sold for
US$75 million to
Hearst Corporation of
New York, NY. Hearst also owns the
Connecticut Post in
Bridgeport and the Brooks Community Newspapers chain of weeklies in lower Fairfield County.
Dean Singleton, chairman and chief executive officer of MediaNews, told
News-Times employees the paper would remain independent of the larger
Connecticut Post, even though the Danbury paper’s publisher will report to the publisher of the
Post,
The News-Times reported. MediaNews announced that it will also buy the
News-Times building at 333 Main Street, which had not been part of the sale to Community Newspaper Holdings.
On
August 8,
2008 the Hearst Corporation acquired the
Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, Conn.) and www.ConnPost.com, including seven non-daily newspapers, from MediaNews Group, Inc. and assumed management control of three additional daily newspapers in
Fairfield County, Conn., including
The Advocate (Stamford),
Greenwich Time (Greenwich), and The News-Times (Danbury), which had been managed for Hearst by MediaNews had managed under a management agreement that began in April 2007.
