''Portsmouth Daily Times'' is a morning newspaper in
Scioto County
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,
Ohio
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with a print circulation of about 10,000. It was first printed in 1852 and printed Monday through Saturday, except Christmas Day. The newspaper is a member of the
Associated Press
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, serving five Ohio counties (Scioto, Adams, Jackson, Lawrence, Pike) and two
Kentucky
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counties (Greenup, Lewis).
''The Portsmouth Daily Times'' is owned by AIM Media Midwest.
On April 10, 2010 the ''Portsmouth Daily Times'' printed its final paper on site, laying off its production staff. All editions henceforth will be printed by fellow
Heartland
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Businesses and organisations
* Heartland Bank, a New Zealand-based financial institution
* Heartland Inn, a chain of hotels based in Iowa, United States
* Heartland Alliance, an anti-poverty organization i ...
paper the ''Gallipolis Daily Tribune''.
In 2012 Versa merged
Ohio Community Media
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, former
Freedom
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papers it had acquired,
Impressions Media
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, type = Private
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, location = 15 North Main Street,Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 1 ...
, and Heartland Publications into a new company,
Civitas Media
Civitas Media, LLC was a Davidson, North Carolina-based publisher of community newspapers covering 11 Midwestern, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern states.
The company was formed in 2012 via the merger of Heartland Publications, Impressions Media, Ohi ...
. Civitas Media sold its Ohio papers to AIM Media Midwest in 2017.
Editors
* 1986: Kevin Coffey
* 1991: Gary Abernathy
* Unknown – 2001: Debbie Allard
* 2001 – unknown: Ty Johnston
* Unknown – 2006: Don Willis
* Unknown: Rick Greene
* 2006: Kelly May (interim)
* 2007 – unknown: Art Kuhn
* Unknown: Jason Lovins
* Unknown: Deborah Daniels
* Unknown – June 2012: Josh Richardson
* June 2012 – December 2012: Ryan Ottney (interim)
* January 2013 – December 2013: Bob Strickley
* December 2013 – October 2015: Ryan Ottney
* October 2015 – December 2015: Wayne Allen (interim)
* January 2016 – November 2016: Fred Pace
* December 2016 – 2017: Chris Slone
*
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* November 2019 – present: Adam Black
References
External links
Portsmouth Daily Times
Newspapers published in Ohio
1852 establishments in Ohio
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