The Standard-Times (New Bedford)
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 The April 6, 2007 front page of The Standard-Times |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Ottaway Community Newspapers |
| Publisher | William T. Kennedy |
| Editor | Bob Unger |
| Founded | 1934 |
| Price | USD .50 daily, 2.00 Sunday |
| Headquarters | 25 Elm Street New Bedford, Massachusetts 02740  United States |
| Circulation | 31,629 daily, 33,524 Sunday in 2006[1] |
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| Website: SouthCoastToday.com | |
The Standard-Times (and Sunday Standard-Times), based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is the larger of two daily newspapers covering the South Coast of Massachusetts[1]
The Cape Cod Times 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, began as a sister publication to The Standard-Times, but was purchased by two Fall River residents, Robert and James Karam, when Ottaway threatened to close it during staff cuts in 1998.[2] The weekly eventually was sold to Journal Register Company, then the owner of The Herald News of Fall River.
The use of "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 cases separately from other court news, in a running feature called Drug Watch.[3]
The front-page nameplate of The Standard Times relegates its home city's name to small print, but trumpets a regional identity, "Serving the SouthCoast Community." It was The Standard-Times that in the 1990s most loudly championed the name South Coast to describe the Fall River-New Bedford metropolitan area.[4] This has been hailed as civic-mindedness by some, and scorned as pointless sloganeering by others, especially longtime residents, including several writers of letters to The Standard Times opinion pages.[5]
Publisher William T. Kennedy came under fire for New Bedford boosterism again in the 2000s, as critics alleged that his support for building a multi-million dollar aquarium -- he served on the board of directors for the waterfront "Oceanarium" -- was skewing The Standard-Times' coverage of cost overruns and delays.[6]
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- ^ a b Audit Bureau of Circulation. "E-Circ" report for six months ending September 30, 2006, at www.accessabc.com, accessed January 7, 2007.
- ^ Munroe, Tony. "Developers Purchase O Jornal." Boston Herald, August 6, 1998.
- ^ Sullivan, Paul. "Obituary: James M. Ragsdale, Newspaper Editor, 56." Boston Herald, August 30, 1994.
- ^ Higgins, Richard. "MetroWest: Gimmick or Identity?" The Boston Globe, October 18, 1998.
- ^ Jurkowitz, Mark. "Renaming the 'Armpit.'" The Boston Globe, June 5, 1997.
- ^ Wedge, David. "Debate Over Oceanarium Heats up in New Bedford." Boston Herald, June 25, 2003.
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