''The Daily Times'' is a morning daily English-language (broadsheet) publication based in Salisbury, Maryland, and primarily covers Wicomico, Worcester, and Somerset counties, and regional coverage across the Delmarva Peninsula. It has been a Gannett publication since 2002. The online news product is Delmarva Now.
History
''The Daily Times'' was first owned by the Truitt family of Salisbury, Maryland. It was sold to
Brush-Moore Newspapers Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc. was a United States newspaper group based in Ohio which had its origins in 1923 and was sold to Thomson Newspapers in 1967 for $72 million, the largest ever newspaper transaction at that time.Thomson Newspapers
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of Toronto, Canada.
Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.Salisbury University, along with photographs and several other items from the paper.
In 2008, the building was sold to the Peninsula Regional Medical Center for $1.8 million dollars, and the paper moved to a site on Beam Street in the Northwood Industrial Park, north of Salisbury, where it purchased a building and installed a multimillion-dollar press.
On January 29, 2011, Delmarva Media Group announced that printing of ''The Daily Times'', and other weekly publications, would be transferred to ''
The News Journal
''The News Journal'' is the main newspaper for Wilmington, Delaware, and the surrounding area. It is headquartered in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, near New Castle, and is owned by Gannett.
History
The ancestry of the News Jo ...
''s production facility in
Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington (Unami language, Lenape: ''Paxahakink /'' ''Pakehakink)'' is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish colonization of the Americas, Swedish settlement in North ...
. Due to the move, 17 production jobs were eliminated.
On Oct. 30, 2017, the paper returned to downtown Salisbury at 115 S. Division St. at the former Salisbury Fire Department Station 16, which was later Headquarters Live music venue.
Management
Its first editor was Charles J. Truitt, who owned the paper with his cousin, Alfred Truitt. Editors followed included: Oscar L. Morris, Richard L. Moore, Mel Toadvine, Gary Grossman, Greg Bassett, Mike Kilian, Ted Shockley, David Ledford, and Laura Benedict Sileo.
Alfred Truitt was its first publisher. Others who followed included Thomas D.Irvin, Dean Farmer, and Edward "Ed" White, Terry Hoppins, Keith Blevins, Larry Jock, Joni Silverstein, Rick Jensen, Greg Bassett, Tom Claybaugh, Bill Janus and Ronald(Ron) Pousson. A regional publisher now oversees The Daily Times.
Weekly publications
In addition to the daily paper, special and seasonal publications and special inserts, ''The Daily Times'' is responsible for the publication of an assortment of associated regional weekly papers (see below). The ''Times'' and its associated broadsheets and weekly tabloids were branded the Strategic Marketing Group in 2001, and rebranded as the Delmarva Peninsula Media Group in 2006. The DMG serves a readership that covers Sussex County, Delaware; Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester counties in Maryland; and Accomack and Northampton counties in Virginia.
The Delaware Wave
''The Delaware Wave'' is a Gannett-owned English-language newspaper based in Bethany Beach, Delaware. Seventeen staff members publish the weekly 11-inch by 17-inch newspaper, every Tuesday, and distribute it to the public on Wednesdays. It serv ...