{{Short description|Newspaper in Altus, Oklahoma}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Altus Times | logo = | image = | caption = | type = Biweekly newspaper | format = Broadsheet | owners = Graystone Media Group | publisher = Rick Carpenter | editor = | chief_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = Rick Carpenter | neseditor = | opinion_editor = | photo_editor = | staff_writers = Katrina Goforth, Ryan Lewis | founded = 1900<ref name="fbind">''Finder Binder: Oklahoma's Updated Media Directory'', 2010 Winter issue.</ref> | political_position = | language = English | headquarters = Altus, Oklahoma | circulation = 5,000<ref name="fbind"/> | oclc = | website = {{URL|altustimes.com}} | ceased_publication = | sister publications = }}
The '''''Altus Times''''' is a twice-a-week newspaper based in Altus, Oklahoma and owned by Graystone Media Group.<ref name="fbind"/> It is published Wednesday and Saturday.<ref name="fbind"/>
==History== The original ''Altus Times'' was founded as a weekly newspaper by J. Ed Van Meter in December, 1901.<ref name="about_us">[http://www.altustimes.com/pages/about_us Altus Times Boasts Colorful History]; {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100308022521/http://altustimes.com/pages/about_us/ |date=2010-03-08 }}, ''Altus Times'' (accessed February 15, 2010).</ref> It was consolidated with two other newspapers into the ''Weekly Altus Times-Democrat'' around 1916. It began daily publication in 1928. The newspaper was renamed the ''Altus Times'' on August 1, 1984.<ref name="about_us"/>
The paper was previously owned by Heartland Publications. In 2012 Versa Capital Management merged Heartland, Ohio Community Media, former Freedom papers it had acquired, and Impressions Media into a new company, Civitas Media.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Versa Capital Announces the Formation of Civitas Media, LLC; Combines Four Community News Groups for Growth, Best Practices |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120911006840/en/Versa-Capital-Announces-the-Formation-of-Civitas-Media-LLC-Combines-Four-Community-News-Groups-for-Growth-Best-Practices |publisher=Business Wire |date=2012-09-12 |access-date=2024-02-19 |language=en}}</ref> Civitas Media sold its Oklahoma papers to Greystone Media Group in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Quarterly Updates - 3rd Quarter 2017 |url=http://dirksvanessen.com/articles/view/226/3rd-quarter-2017/ |publisher=Dirks, Van Essen & Murray |date=2017-09-30 |access-date=2017-10-28}}</ref>
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== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.altustimes.com }}
Category:Newspapers published in Oklahoma
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