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17-1333: (Redirected from Times-Record ) Times Record or The Times Record may refer to the following newspapers: Southwest Times Record , published in Fort Smith, Arkansas The Times-Record (Alabama) , published in Fayette, Alabama The Times Record (Illinois) , published in Aledo, Illinois The Times Record (Maine) , published in Brunswick, Maine The Times-Record (Maryland) , published in Denton, Maryland Times-Record (North Dakota) , published in Valley City, North Dakota Times Record & Roane County Reporter , published in Spencer, West Virginia Times Record News , published in Wichita Falls, Texas The Record , published in Troy, New York See also [ edit ] Times Recorder Topics referred to by

34-641: A joint venture with WEHCO Media Inc. , in Arkansas. On November 28, 2010, Stephens Media Iowa, LLC, a subsidiary of Stephens Media, acquired several newspapers, including the Ames Tribune , Boone News-Republican , Dallas County News , Nevada Journal , Ames About People & Advertiser , Tri-County Times , and Algona Upper Des Moines from Midlands Newspapers Inc., a subsidiary of the Omaha World-Herald Company. In August, 2011,

51-593: A radio broadcasting company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2010, Stephens Media contracted with the litigation firm Righthaven LLC , giving it the power to enforce the company's copyrights when online violators go beyond the bounds of fair use. More than 141 lawsuits have been filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas since mid-March. In a column published in the RJ shortly after the lawsuits began, publisher Sherman Frederick, said

68-681: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Southwest Times Record The Times Record began as three separate papers: the Fort Smith Times , the Fort Smith News Record , and the Southwest American . The Fort Smith Times began publishing in December 1884 as an afternoon newspaper. The Fort Smith News Record , established in the spring of 1893,

85-648: The Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette . The company had been expanding its interactive Internet business, operating online sites for its newspapers and portal sites like LasVegas.com, which is licensed to Greenspun Media Group . The company is also a partner in the California Newspapers Partnership with MediaNews and Gannett. The company also formed Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC in November 2009,

102-770: The Times Record in the evening, maintaining separate editorial staff. On Sundays, the two combined into one edition—the Southwest Times Record . On March 23, 1940, Parks and Carney sold the American and the Times Record to 33-year-old Donald W. Reynolds , owner of the Okmulgee Daily Times . His purchase of the Times Record and American marked the start of the Donrey Media Group. In 1969, Donrey halted separate delivery of

119-748: The Algona Upper Des Moines was sold to Hallmark Media. In February 2015, Stephens Media was purchased by GateHouse Media 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. The company was called Donrey Media Group , which was founded by Arkansas media mogul Donald W. Reynolds and based in Fort Smith, Arkansas . After Reynolds died in 1993 at

136-801: The Stephens Media copyrights by Righthaven was being closely watched by other publishers, as is the debate it has generated. Critics of the relatively new practice have coined it ' copyright trolling ', and argue that the purpose of such enforcement is to make a profit. In the Poynter article, Stephens Media general counsel Mark Hinueber says the goal is to make sure the company's intellectual rights are protected. "We were seeing our entire work product in some stories just being right-clicked and cut and pasted into blogs, where people were selling Google ads around them and making money." The Las Vegas Sun has been thoroughly documenting Righthaven's activities and

153-429: The afternoon Times Record and morning American , merging the papers into a single seven-day morning paper under the Southwest Times Record name. It currently publishes daily under that moniker. The paper remained the flagship of Donrey until Reynolds' death in 1993. Reynolds' longtime friend Jack Stephens bought the company, changed its name to Stephens Media Group in 2002 and later to Stephens Media LLC , and moved

170-494: The age of 86, the company was sold to the Stephens family of Arkansas, known for their Little Rock investment banking business Stephens Inc. Some of Donrey's properties were sold off, and the company moved its headquarters to Las Vegas , Nevada , home of its largest newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal . The company was renamed Stephens Media Group in 2002. In June 2006, the company became known as Stephens Media LLC. The company has no connection with Stephens Media Group ,

187-660: The best of their ability. Righthaven's lawsuits came under increasing judicial scrutiny, which led to Righthaven being found in June 2011 to lack standing to sue for alleged infringement of copyrighted material to which it holds only a limited license, as such a license does not confer the right to sue for infringement. Sanctions against Righthaven and its attorney, Steven A. Gibson, of Nevada law firm Dickinson Wright, are currently being contemplated by one judge. Righthaven later had its assets seized to pay judgments levied against it in lawsuits it filed against those whom it said infringed on

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204-563: The copyrights of clients. As a result, copyrights which had been "sold" by Stephens to Righthaven were "sold back" to Stephens for $ 80,000 to pay legal fees. In September 2009, Stephens Media and WEHCO Media Inc. , owner of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , announced plans to combine their newspaper operations in Northwest Arkansas and operate as a single company. The venture was approved in November 2009 by

221-400: The headquarters to Las Vegas, Nevada , home of the group's largest property, the Las Vegas Review-Journal . In 2015, the Stephens Media newspapers were sold to New Media Investment Group . Stephens Media (newspapers) Stephens Media LLC was a Las Vegas , Nevada , United States, diversified media investment company. It owned stakes in the California Newspapers Partnership and

238-616: The primary goal with the partnership with Righthaven was to deter theft of the company's copyrighted materials. He said if the company was successful, he hoped Righthaven would find other media clients. In late August, WEHCO Media, which owns the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the Chattanooga Times Free Press , signed on with the firm. MediaNews Group has also used Righthaven to file a copyright infringement suit. The aggressive enforcement of

255-610: The response. The Sun ’s outside law firm, Lewis and Roca, is defending several of the Righthaven suits. Targets of the Righthaven lawsuits included bloggers, political forums, major political parties, and several of the newspaper's own sources including NORML , DailyPaul .com, InfoWars , Free Republic , and others. On August 25, 2010, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced that they will make efforts to assist Righthaven LLC defendants to

272-420: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Times Record . 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=Times_Record&oldid=949316835 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

289-586: Was also an afternoon publication. The Southwest American , a morning daily, began publishing in 1907. In July 1909, the Times and the News Record merged as the Fort Smith Times Record . In 1920, boyhood friends John S. Parks and George D. Carney purchased the Fort Smith Times Record , and in 1923, they also bought the American . They continued to publish the American in the morning and

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