{{short description|Newspaper in Salisbury, Maryland}} {{More citations needed|date=December 2018}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Daily Times | logo = | image = Dailytimesfrontpage.jpg | image_size = 93px | caption = The paper's April 11, 2010, front page | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | owners = USA Today Co. | founder = {{Start date and age|1886}} | editor = | chief_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = Keith Demko | news_editor = | newseditordesign = | campus_editor = | campus_chief = | opinion_editor = | photo_editor = | staff_writers = | founded = | political_position = | circulation = 16,500 | ceased_publication = | headquarters = Salisbury, Maryland, United States | sister_newspapers = | ISSN = 0331-2739 | oclc = 9958506 | website = {{URL|delmarvanow.com}} }} '''''The Daily Times''''' is a morning daily English-language (broadsheet) publication based in Salisbury, Maryland, United States, and primarily covers Wicomico, Worcester, and Somerset counties, and regional coverage across the Delmarva Peninsula. It has been a USA Today Co. 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 of Canton, Ohio, in 1937; 30 years later, Brush-Moore was sold to Thomson Newspapers of Toronto, Canada. Gannett bought the paper from Thomson in 2000.
The paper began publication in 1886 as ''The Wicomico News'', a weekly.<ref name="static">{{Cite web |url=https://static.delmarvanow.com/about/ |title=About Delmarva Media Group {{!}} The Daily Times |website=static.delmarvanow.com |access-date=December 23, 2018}}</ref> On December 3, 1923, it became a daily and became ''The Evening Times'' and later ''The Salisbury Times'', the ''Shoreman's Daily''. It changed its Sunday name to ''The Sunday Times'' on October 22, 1967, to reflect its Sunday publication, while maintaining a five-day publication still known as ''The Daily Times''. It became a morning publication on October 2, 1989. later, it dropped the name on Sunday and printed seven days a week under the name of ''The Daily Times''.
In 2025, the paper switched from carrier to postal delivery.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Demko |first=Keith |title=The Salisbury Daily Times is transitioning to postal delivery |url=https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2025/08/14/salisbury-daily-times-newspaper-postal-delivery/85659042007/ |access-date=August 14, 2025 |website=The Daily Times |language=en-US}}</ref>
===Location=== The paper was located on Main St. in downtown Salisbury, Maryland, for years, at a site that later became a men's apparel store. A new building was constructed on what was Upton St. (now Carroll Street), across from the Peninsula General Medical Center. The paper's home was on a site that had been the old Wicomico High School and before that in the 1860s, a Union encampment during the Civil War. The school was demolished{{citation needed|date=April 2010}} to build a modern newspaper plant built in 1957. Photos of the open house on Upton Street are in the Nabbs Research Center at 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,<ref>{{Cite news |first=Susan |last=Canfora |url=https://baytobaynews.com/wicomico/wicomico/stories/city-accepts-grant-to-demolish-old-daily-times-building,28074 |title=City accepts grant to demolish old Daily Times building |date=December 31, 2014 |work=Salisbury Independent |access-date=February 22, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> 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''{{'}}s production facility in Wilmington, Delaware. Due to the move, 17 production jobs were eliminated.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20110129/BUSINESS/101290371/Delmarva-Media-Group-to-transfer-printing-to-Wilmington |newspaper=The Daily Times |title=Delmarva Media Group to transfer printing to Wilmington |date=January 29, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621054045/http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20110129/BUSINESS/101290371/Delmarva-Media-Group-to-transfer-printing-to-Wilmington |archive-date=June 21, 2015}}</ref>
From October 30, 2017, to February 2023, the newspaper had offices in downtown Salisbury at 115 S. Division St. at the former Salisbury Fire Department Station 16, which was formerly Headquarters Live music venue.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Liz |last=Holland |url=https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2017/05/03/daily-times-signs-lease-headquarters-live-building/101211972/ |title=Daily Times moving; lease signed for HQ Live building |newspaper=The Daily Times |access-date=August 2, 2018 |language=en |date=May 3, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |first1=David |last1=Ledford |first2=Laura |last2=Benedict Sileo |first3=Ron |last3=Pousson |url=https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/10/29/after-nearly-decade-away-its-good-home/808237001/ |title=After nearly a decade away, it's good to be home |newspaper=The Daily Times |access-date=February 22, 2023 |language=en |date=October 29, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Former Salisbury Fire Department headquarters downtown to become next home for city offices |url=https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/2023/02/22/city-salisbury-moving-offices-to-former-fire-department-headquarers-downtown/69932350007/ |access-date=October 7, 2023 |date=February 22, 2023 |newspaper=The Daily Times |language=en-US}}</ref>
===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,<ref>{{Cite news |first=Jeremy |last=Cox |url=https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/2016/10/26/delmarva-media-group-layoffs/92722574/ |title=Delmarva Media Group layoffs include top editor |newspaper=The Daily Times |language=en |access-date=December 23, 2018 |date=October 26, 2016}}</ref> David Ledford, Laura Benedict Sileo,<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/2019/02/28/laura-benedict-sileo-named-delmarvanow-executive-editor-gannett-usatoday/3018647002/ |title=Benedict Sileo named Delmarva Now executive editor |newspaper=The Daily Times |language=en |access-date=February 28, 2019 |date=February 28, 2019}}</ref> and Keith Demko.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Staff Directory |url=https://www.delmarvanow.com/contact/staff/ |access-date=March 27, 2025 |website=The Daily Times |language=en-US}}</ref>
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).<ref name="static" /> 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.{{Citation needed|date=December 2018}} The DMG serves a readership that covers Sussex County, Delaware; Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester counties in Maryland; and Accomack and Northampton counties in Virginia.
===Publications in the Delmarva Media Group=== * ''The Chincoteague Beacon'' * ''The Daily Times'' * ''The Delaware Beachcomber'' * ''The Delaware Coast Press'' * ''The Delaware Wave'' * ''The Eastern Shore News'' * ''The Ocean Pines Independent'' * ''The Maryland Beachcomber'' * ''The Somerset Herald'' * ''The Worcester County Times'' * Coastal Delaware * Wicomico Weekly
===Defunct publications (merged with other extant publications)=== * ''The Maryland Times-Press'' * ''The Worcester County Messenger'' * "Shore Woman"
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Portal|Maryland|Journalism}} * [http://www.delmarvanow.com DelmarvaNow.com], the internet publication of ''The Daily Times'' and The Delmarva Media Group. * {{Newseum front page|MD_DT}}
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