Tyrone Times offices, Dungannon - geograph

The ''Tyrone Times'', more correctly known as the ''Tyrone Times and Dungannon Gazette'', is a newspaper based in

Dungannon Dungannon () is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the second-largest town in the county (after Omagh) and had a population of 14,340 at the 2011 Census. The Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council had its headquarters in the ...

County Tyrone County Tyrone (; ) is one of the six Counties of Northern Ireland, counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional Counties of Ireland, counties of Ireland. It is no longer used as an admini ...

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...

. It was published by

Johnston Publishing (NI) Johnston Publishing (NI) is a large newspaper group in Northern Ireland consisting of Mortons Newspapers and the News Letter, and is a holding company of JPIMedia. The company was formed following Johnston Press's purchase of Century Newspapers (pu ...

, which was part of

Johnston Press Johnston Press plc was a multimedia company founded in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1767. Its flagship titles included UK-national newspaper the '' i'', ''The Scotsman'', the ''Yorkshire Post'', the ''Falkirk Herald'', and Belfast's ''The News Letter'' ...

and was then part of

JPIMedia National World is a British multimedia company. The company was founded as JPIMedia Publishing Ltd in November 2018 following the acquisition of Johnston Press assets by its creditors. JPIMedia was purchased by National World PLC for £10.2 mill ...

. The paper's name mimics the full title of its main rival, the '' Dungannon News and Tyrone Courier''. Unlike the ''Courier'', its name is not derived from an amalgamation of previous titles - the ''Times'' was first published in the early 1990s to build on the popularity of its sister publication in the

area, the Cookstown-based ''

Mid Ulster Mail The ''Mid-Ulster Mail'' is a newspaper based in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. As well as serving Tyrone, it also covers Magherafelt, County Londonderry. It is published by Johnston Publishing (NI), part of Johnston Press Joh ...

''. In June 2019,

announced that they were closing the Tyrone Times.

References

External links

Official website
Newspapers published in Northern Ireland Mass media in County Tyrone Dungannon Newspapers published by Johnston Press {{NorthernIreland-newspaper-stub