- Delaware County Daily Times
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Delaware County Daily Times Type Daily newspaper Format Tabloid Owner Journal Register Company Publisher Ed Condra Editor Phil Heron Founded 1876 Headquarters 500 Mildred Ave.
Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, United StatesCirculation 40,291 Daily
35,653 Sunday[1]Official website www.delcotimes.com.com The Delaware County Daily Times is a daily newspaper, published in the Primos section of Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is one of the only major newspapers in the state to be branded with a county name rather than a city. It has a politically liberal bent and is known for its colorful "Sound Off" feature.
The newspaper began as the Chester Daily Times in 1876. Its current name was adopted in 1959 and its offices left the economically declining City of Chester, Pennsylvania for Primos, an unincorporated postal designation in Upper Darby Township. According to the Journal Register Company, it has the largest circulation of any suburban paper in the Philadelphia area. The Sunday edition is known as the Delaware County Sunday Times.
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History
The first edition of the paper, then known as the Chester Times, was a four-page broadsheet printed on September 7, 1876 selling for one cent. Pictures began to appear in the paper by 1915. In November 1959, the Chester Times changed its name to the Delaware County Daily Times.
On June 15, 1981, the paper transformed from a broadsheet to a tabloid and made the switch from an afternoon paper to a morning edition. Previously a six-day paper, the Delaware County Daily Times began to print Saturday editions on Oct. 25, 1997. [2]
Notable former reporters
William Cameron Sproul, former Pennsylvania governor and 1920 Republican presidential candidate. [3]
F. Gilman Spencer Sr., 1974 Pulitzer Prize winner in editorial writing. [3]
Orrin Evans, jazz pianist. [3]
Joby Warrick, 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for public service in journalism. [3]
External links
References
- ^ "Journal Register publications". Journal Register Company. http://www.journalregister.com/pub_ph.html. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
- ^ Carey, Kathleen. "We've changed, and so has the news." Delaware County Daily Times, Sept. 28, 2001
- ^ a b c d Logue, Timothy. "The People Behind the Times." Delaware County Daily Times, Sept. 28, 2001
Categories:- Newspapers published in Pennsylvania
- Delaware County, Pennsylvania
- Journal Register publications
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