''The News-Times'' is a daily newspaper based in

Danbury, Connecticut Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately northeast of New York City. Danbury's population as of 2022 was 87,642. It is the seventh largest city in Connecticut. Danbury is nicknamed the "Hat City ...

, United States. It is owned and operated by the

Hearst Corporation Hearst Communications, Inc., often referred to simply as Hearst, is an American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate based in Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Hearst owns newspapers, magazines, televis ...

. The paper covers Danbury, a city in

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in southwestern

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, as well as the towns of Brookfield,

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, Newtown,

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, Ridgefield, Redding, Roxbury, New Milford,

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, Bridgewater,

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and Southbury. ''The News-Times'' also owns and operates ''The Greater New Milford Spectrum'', a weekly newspaper that covers New Milford, Sherman, Kent, Washington, Bridgewater, and Roxbury.

News coverage

When it comes to covering different news stories, ''The News-Times'' reports on stories at the local, state, and even national level. Most crime stories that are published by ''The News-Times'' are often about events that occurred in the greater Danbury area. Their crime stories range from break-ins to homicides. The paper's local news coverage ranges from town politics, to infrastructure, to city traditions and events. ''The News-Times'' also reports on major stories that take place throughout the state of Connecticut, as well as stories of national interest that have Connecticut roots in them.

History

''The News-Times'' was founded on September 8, 1883 as the ''Danbury Evening News'' by

James Montgomery Bailey James Montgomery Bailey (September 25, 1841 – March 4, 1894) was an American journalist who won an ephemeral popularity as the "''Danbury News'' Man." Biography He was born at Albany, New York, and after receiving a common school education, le ...

. In 1933 it merged with the ''Danbury Times'' (founded May 17, 1927), thereafter to be known as the ''Danbury News-Times''. The

Ottaway Community Newspapers Local Media Group, Inc., formerly Dow Jones Local Media Group and Ottaway Newspapers Inc., owned newspapers, Web sites and niche publications in California, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania. It was headquarte ...

chain purchased the paper in 1955. Ottaway, which later became a division of

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, owned the newspaper until November 2006, when its sale to Community Newspaper Holdings was announced. Five months later, on April 1, 2007, the newspaper, along with the weekly ''Spectrum'', was sold for

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75 million to

of New York. Hearst also owns the ''

Connecticut Post The ''Connecticut Post'' is a daily newspaper located in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It serves Fairfield County and the Lower Naugatuck Valley. Municipalities in the Post's circulation area include Ansonia, Bridgeport, Darien, Derby, Easton, ...

'' in

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and the Brooks Community Newspapers chain of weeklies in lower Fairfield County. The current average daily net press run is 7,511 copies as reported in The Publisher's statement dated October 1, 2018.

Dean Singleton William Dean Singleton (born August 1, 1951) is an American newspaper executive. He is the founder and executive board chairman of MediaNews Group, the fourth-largest newspaper company in the United States in terms of circulation, with 53 daily pa ...

, chairman and chief executive officer of MediaNews, told ''News-Times'' employees the paper would remain independent of the larger ''Connecticut Post'', even though the Danbury paper’s publisher will report to the publisher of the ''Post'', ''The News-Times'' reported. MediaNews announced that it will also buy the ''News-Times'' building at 333 Main Street, which had not been part of the sale to Community Newspaper Holdings. On August 8, 2008 the Hearst Corporation acquired the

(Bridgeport, Conn.) and www.ctpost.com, including seven non-daily newspapers, from MediaNews Group, Inc. and assumed management control of three additional daily newspapers in

, Conn., including

The Advocate (Stamford) ''The Advocate'' is a seven-day daily newspaper based in Stamford, Connecticut. The paper is owned and operated by Hearst Communications, a multinational corporate media conglomerate with $4 billion in revenues. ''The Advocate'' circulates in S ...

, Greenwich Time (Greenwich), and The News-Times (Danbury), which had been managed for Hearst by MediaNews under a management agreement that began in April 2007. In 2018, ''The News-Times'' editorial office moved from 333 Main Street to 345 Main Street in

Danbury Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately northeast of New York City. Danbury's population as of 2022 was 87,642. It is the seventh largest city in Connecticut. Danbury is nicknamed the "Hat City ...

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