The ''Portadown Times'' is a newspaper based in
Portadown
Portadown () is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The town sits on the River Bann in the north of the county, about southwest of Belfast. It is in the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council area and had a population of a ...
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County Armagh
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Northern Ireland
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UK. It is 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 (p ...
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Johnston Press who own thirty-seven papers across
Ireland
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Founded in the 1920s, the ''Portadown Times'' was a poor second to the longer-established ''Portadown News'', and - until it was taken over in the 1950s by James Morton, remained that way. Under Morton's expertise, it passed the ''News'' circulation and he took over the ''News'' in the early 1970s and ran both as a bi-weekly operation until he closed the ''Portadown News''.
On Jim Morton's death, the Morton Newspaper Empire - which comprised around 22 titles in Northern Ireland, passed on to his son John who sold them to Scottish Radio, who consequently sold them on to Johnston Press.
The editor of the ''Portadown Times'' is Alistair Bushe who took over from David Armstrong who was in charge for more than 40 years. Alistair was appointed editor of the daily newspaper ''The News Letter''. Clint Aiken is editing the ''Portadown Times''.
Newspapers published in Northern Ireland
Mass media in County Armagh
Newspapers published by Johnston Press
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