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29-624: (Redirected from Standard Times ) The Standard-Times , The Standard Times , or Standard-Times may refer to: The Standard-Times (New Bedford) , newspaper based in New Bedford, Massachusetts The Standard Times (North Kingstown) , newspaper based in North Kingstown, Rhode Island San Angelo Standard-Times , newspaper based in San Angelo, Texas Topics referred to by

58-886: A Southern flair. On September 27, 2018, GateHouse Media announced the acquisition of The Oklahoman Media Company , parent company of The Oklahoman , which is the state's largest daily newspaper, for an undisclosed amount from The Anschutz Corp. The sale closed on Oct. 1, 2018, for $ 12.5 million. On January 28, 2019, it was announced that GateHouse Media had acquired the publishing division of Schurz Communications including The Herald-Times in Bloomington, Indiana , South Bend Tribune in South Bend, Indiana , and other papers in Clay, Lawrence, Monroe, Morgan, Orange, Owen, and Putnam counties in Indiana. That same year, it acquired

87-638: A regional identity, "Serving the SouthCoast Community." It was The Standard-Times under Editor-In-Chief Ken Hartnett, that in the 1990s most loudly championed the name South Coast to designate the Fall River-New Bedford metropolitan area. The "Standard-Times" has done well in regional news competitions for many years. Most recently it was named the New England Newspaper & Press Association Newspaper of

116-570: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Standard-Times (New Bedford) Like the Cape Cod Times , which is the only larger newspaper in Southeastern Massachusetts , The Standard-Times is owned by Gannett . Together with the weekly newspapers of Hathaway Publishing , which also cover Fall River and several other suburban towns, The Standard-Times

145-476: Is part of the South Coast Media Group. The Standard-Times 's coverage area includes Acushnet , Dartmouth , Fairhaven , Fall River , Freetown , Lakeville , Marion , Mattapoisett , New Bedford , Rochester , Wareham , and Westport, Massachusetts . The Standard-Times 's main daily competitor is The Herald News of Fall River. Other rivals include The Boston Globe ,

174-625: Is the largest newspaper in Central Texas. In the same month, GateHouse announced its $ 49.25 million purchase of The Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Daily News from Cox Media Group, LLC. On April 10, 2018, GateHouse announced that it had agreed to acquire the Akron Beacon Journal of Akron , Ohio for $ 16 million from Black Press Group . The Beacon Journal is a daily newspaper tracing its storied, Pulitzer Prize -winning history to 1839's Summit Beacon , which early in

203-700: The New Jersey Herald in Newton, New Jersey , from Quincy Media . In August 2019, it was announced that New Media Investment Group had reached an agreement to merge Gannett into GateHouse Media. GateHouse would be the nominal survivor, with New Media Investment Group's CEO, Mike Reed, becoming CEO of the merged company. However, the merged newspaper chain would take the better-known Gannett name and be based at Gannett's headquarters in McLean, Virginia . The acquisition of Gannett by New Media Investment Group

232-891: The Taunton Daily Gazette and the Providence Journal . The Standard-Times 's print circulation has fallen over 30% since 2006. E-sales, while increasing, have not offset this decline in circulation. Daily (Monday through Saturday) circulation for The Standard-Times averaged 31,629 in mid-2006, down slightly from the 33,047 reported earlier that year. By September 2010, circulation had fallen sharply to 24,723 and 26,521 for daily and Sunday circulation respectively. As at May 2014, circulation had continued to fall, with daily print circulation down to 18,100 (20,482 Sunday circulation) and daily e-sales of 2,176 (836 Sunday circulation). Publisher William T. Kennedy came under fire for New Bedford boosterism again in

261-488: The Standard-Times placed a paywall on its website on January 12, 2010. Unregistered visitors are able to view three articles per month, with free registration increasing the number of articles to 10 per month. Following the introduction of the paywall, site visitors fell. Amid a general decline in newspaper circulation, the ownership of the Standard-Times and its parent media groups has changed multiple times in

290-462: The 2000s, as critics alleged that his support for building a multimillion-dollar aquarium—he served on the board of directors for the waterfront "Oceanarium"—was skewing The Standard-Times 's coverage of cost overruns and delays. The Standard-Times formed from the 1934 merger of The New Bedford Standard and The New Bedford Times . The Standard had been in operation since being founded as an evening newspaper in 1850. The Cape Cod Times

319-643: The 20th century came under the editorship and ownership of publisher Charles Landon Knight , serving as the flagship newspaper of the Knight Newspaper Company, later known as Knight Ridder . On July 2, 2018, GateHouse acquired SouthernKitchen.com, the Atlanta-based Southern food and lifestyle brand. Southern Kitchen, launched by Cox Media Group (CMG) in 2017, is a blend of e-commerce and content. It delivers content and products related to eating, drinking, and entertaining with

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348-486: The 21st century. News Corporation acquired The Standard-Times when it bought Dow Jones & Company , Dow Jones Local Media Group Inc.'s parent, for US$ 5 billion in late 2007. Rupert Murdoch , the head of News Corp., reportedly told investors before the deal that he would be "selling the local newspapers fairly quickly" after the Dow Jones purchase. On September 4, 2013, News Corp announced that it would sell

377-925: The 36 newspapers of the Halifax Media Group for $ 280 million. In February 2015, GateHouse purchased Stephens Media , which published newspapers mainly in Arkansas and Nevada, for $ 102.8 million. In December 2015, GateHouse sold the Las Vegas Review-Journal , the Stephens group's largest paper, to casino magnate Sheldon Adelson for $ 140 million. In November 2016, GateHouse announced the purchase of Harris Enterprises, based in Hutchinson, Kan., which operated six daily newspapers in Kansas and Iowa. In February 2017, GateHouse purchased

406-488: The Dix Communications newspaper chain for $ 21.2 million. Dix Communications operates in northeastern and east-central Ohio, including more than 30 daily and weekly newspapers. In June 2017, GateHouse announced it was purchasing Calkins Media Group's four six-day-a-week newspapers and Calkins Digital Group, a press facility and related websites and other digital operations. In August 2017, GateHouse announced it

435-547: The Dow Jones Local Media Group to Newcastle Investment Corp.—an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group , for $ 87 million. The newspapers will be operated by Fortress subsidiary GateHouse Media, the owner of The Standard-Times' rival The Herald News . GateHouse Media has also expressed interest in purchasing fellow Standard-Times rival The Providence Journal . News Corp. CEO and former Wall Street Journal editor Robert James Thomson indicated that

464-958: The Fortress News Corp deal. Fortress owned 52% of GateHouse debt. Gatehouse re-emerged from the planned bankruptcy in November 2013. In the restructured plan, Gatehouse stock was cancelled and a new holding company for the parent, New Media Investment Group, Inc., was formed. The terms involved the cancellation of shares of Gatehouse, but those owners receiving warrants to buy shares in New Media Investment Group Inc. Subsequently, Gatehouse Media acquired several newspaper groups between 2014 and 2017, including Halifax, Stephens Media, Calkins Media and Morris Publications. They also acquired Dolan Media Group and Journal Multimedia, adding business publications to their portfolio. The combined group of business publications

493-528: The NYSE's continued listing standards for average global market capitalization over a consecutive 30-trading-day period of not less than $ 75 million and $ 1.00 average closing price, and had submitted a business plan to the NYSE Regulation for coming back into compliance for continued listing. The company has been in communication with the NYSE regarding its noncompliance with continued listing standards, but

522-573: The Year for both 2012 and 2013. It won NENPA's First Place Award for Local Election coverage for 2012, '13 and '14. It won the New England Associated Press News Executives Association's Deadline News Coverage First Place Award for its coverage of Tropical Storm Irene in 2012 and was NEAPNEA's First Place winner for its Overall Website in 2012. Following a series of lay-offs between 2008 and 2009,

551-566: The acquisition of Kirk Davis's independently owned Holden Landmark Corporation for an undisclosed sum. The sale includes the central Massachusetts media properties, Worcester Magazine , The Landmark, baystateparent Magazine, Leominster Champion, Millbury-Sutton Chronicle , and the Grafton News . In March 2018, GateHouse announced its $ 47.5 million purchase of the Austin American-Statesman of Austin , Texas . It

580-821: The combined company using the Gannett name and maintaining its headquarters in Virginia. Liberty Group Publishing was formed in 1998 when Kenneth L. Serota, a former Hollinger International attorney with backing from Leonard Green & Partners , bought 160 community newspapers from Hollinger. Headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois , Liberty then expanded the network increasing the total newspapers to 330 by 2000. Faced with problems, it downsized to 270 by June 2005. In June 2005, Fortress Investment Group bought Liberty for $ 527 million. Fortress expanded it to 75 dailies, 231 weeklies, 117 shoppers, and 230 websites. It

609-546: The emerging portfolio" of the company, which had been formed as a spin-off of News Corporation . By 2013, GateHouse Media grew, operating in 330 markets across 21 states, but they found themselves in a debt situation that would prohibit future growth. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware on September 27, 2013. It listed assets of $ 433.7 million and debt of $ 1.3 billion. The planned bankruptcy centered on restructuring

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638-652: The newspapers were "not strategically consistent with the emerging portfolio" of the company. GateHouse in turn filed prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 27, 2013, to restructure its debt obligations in order to accommodate the acquisition. GateHouse Media Kirk Davis, operating company CEO; Paul Ameden, CIO; Bill Church, Senior VP News; GateHouse Media Inc. was an American publisher of locally based print and digital media. It published 144 daily newspapers, 684 community publications, and over 569 local-market websites in 38 states. Its parent company, New Media Investment Group, acquired Gannett in 2019, with

667-432: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Standard-Times . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Standard-Times&oldid=323866894 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

696-446: Was originally known as The Cape Cod Standard-Times , an edition of the New Bedford paper. It split off in the 1970s. O Jornal , a Portuguese-language weekly newspaper now owned by GateHouse Media , was purchased by The Standard-Times in 1993 from Kathy Castro and was sold in 1998 in a deal with two Fall River residents, Robert and James Karam, after Ottaway threatened to close it during staff cuts late in 1998. The weekly eventually

725-409: Was purchasing 11 daily newspapers, 30 weeklies, and other assets from Morris Publishing Group, a division of Morris Communications. In October 2017, GateHouse acquired Edward A. Sherman Publishing Company, parent of The Newport Daily News . In January 2018, GateHouse announced its purchase of Oregon's second-largest daily newspaper, The Register-Guard . In February 2018, GateHouse announced

754-425: Was rebranded as BridgeTower Media. The GateHouse Media corporate strategy continues to focus on acquiring and operating traditional local media businesses and transforming them from print-centric operations to multimedia operations. As of April 2018, GateHouse Media was publishing 144 daily newspapers, 684 community publications, and over 569 local market websites in 38 states. In January 2015, GateHouse purchased

783-562: Was renamed GateHouse and its headquarters moved to suburban Rochester, New York , in April 2006. In October 2006, GateHouse had its IPO with Fortress maintaining 60% ownership. On October 23, 2007, GateHouse announced the purchase of 14 daily newspapers and other publications from Morris Communications . The company received notification from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on August 21, 2008, that it had fallen below

812-770: Was sold to Journal Register Company , then the owner of The Herald News of Fall River. The use of the titles "Mr.," "Mrs.," "Ms." and "Miss" before the last names of people cited in the newspaper, still in use in sections other than sports at the start of 2007, is the legacy of longtime Standard-Times editor James M. Ragsdale, who died in 1994. Ragsdale was also credited with publishing drug and prostitution cases separately from other court news, in running features called Drug Watch and Prostitution Watch. The features included photos of drug and prostitution suspects taken during arraignment and published before their cases were adjudicated. The front-page nameplate of The Standard-Times displays its home city's name in small print and trumpets

841-521: Was unsuccessful in its efforts to avoid suspension and delisting. On September 4, 2013, News Corp announced that it would sell the Dow Jones Local Media Group , a group of 33 local newspapers, to Newcastle Investment Corp, an affiliate of Fortress, for $ 87 million. The newspapers were operated by GateHouse Media following the purchase. CEO Robert James Thomson indicated that the newspapers "were not strategically consistent with

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