The Times-Tribune (Scranton)
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| The Times-Tribune The Sunday Times |
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| Type | Daily and Sunday morning newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Times-Shamrock Communications |
| Publisher | Edward J. Lynett Jr., George V. Lynett, William R. Lynett and Cecelia Lynett Haggerty |
| Editor | Lawrence K. Beaupre |
| Founded | Scranton Times: 1870 Scranton Tribune: 1891 Times-Tribune: 2005 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 149 Penn Ave. Scranton, Pennsylvania 18503 United States |
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| Website: TheTimes-Tribune.com | |
The Times-Tribune is a morning newspaper serving the Scranton, Pennsylvania area. It is owned by the Lynett family and their company, Times-Shamrock Communications. On Sundays, the paper is published as The Sunday Times.
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[edit] Political Leanings
The Times-Tribune is moderately independent. The paper endorsed George W. Bush in 2000, but it did not endorse anyone in 2004. It endorsed Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary.
[edit] History
The current paper is the result of a 2005 merger between the afternoon Scranton Times and morning Scranton Tribune.
The Times was founded in 1870. It struggled under six owners before E.J. Lynett bought the paper in 1895. Within 20 years, the Times was the dominant newspaper in northeastern Pennsylvania, and the third-largest in the state (behind only the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Pittsburgh Press). In 1923, Lynett signed on one of Scranton's first radio stations, WQAN; his family still owns the station today under the calls WEJL.
Lynett died in 1943, and his three children took control of the paper with Edward J. Lynett, the oldest, as publisher. Edward J. Lynett died in 1966, and his four children took over; they still run the paper today. Shortly after they took over, the Times expanded to a full week with the appearance of The Sunday Times.
In 1990, the morning Scranton Tribune, the Times' principal rival, filed for bankruptcy. The Tribune had been published continuously since 1890. The Lynetts bought the Tribune and its Sunday companion, The Scrantonian. The Tribune continued as a morning paper with much of the same content as the afternoon Times, with timely updating. The Scrantonian was folded into the Sunday Times.
By 2004, it was obvious that Scranton could no longer support a morning and afternoon paper, and the Lynetts announced that their two papers would merge into one morning paper, The Times-Tribune. The new paper first rolled off the presses on July 27, 2005.
[edit] Awards
The Scranton Times won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1946, while the Scranton Tribune and Scrantonian (then separately owned and a precursor to the morning Tribune) won the prize for Local Reporting in 1959.
