The Scranton Times-Tribune

{{Short description|Pennsylvania daily newspaper}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Scranton Times-Tribune The Sunday Times | image = The Scranton Times-Tribune logo.webp | caption = | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = ''Scranton Times'': 1870 ''Scranton Tribune'': 1891 (but with heritage dating to 1856) ''Times-Tribune'': 2005 | ceased_publication = | owners = MediaNews Group | publisher = MediaNews Group | editor = Larry Holeva | language = English | circulation = 24,434 | circulation_date = September 2022 | circulation_ref = <ref name="CirculationRef">{{cite news |title=Annual Statement – Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation |url= https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-tribune-annual-statement/126918704/ |work=The Scranton Times-Tribune |date=September 24, 2022 |access-date=June 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622190126/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-tribune-annual-statement/126918704/ |archive-date=June 22, 2023 |page=B7 |quote=Average No. Copies Each issue during preceding 12 months ... Total No. Copies Printed (net Press Run) ... 24,434 |via=Newspapers.com |url-status=live}}</ref> | headquarters = 149 Penn Ave. Scranton, Pennsylvania 18503 United States | ISSN = 1930-6377 | website = {{URL|http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/}} }}

'''''The Scranton Times-Tribune''''' is a morning newspaper serving the Scranton, Pennsylvania area. Until August 2023, it was the flagship title of Times-Shamrock Communications and run by three generations of the Lynett-Haggerty family. It is now owned by MediaNews Group, a subsidiary of Alden Global Capital.<ref name=2023Sale>{{Cite web |date=August 31, 2023 |title=Times-Shamrock selling off its newspaper group |url=https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/times-shamrock-selling-off-its-newspaper-group-tribune-citizens-voice-republican-herald-standard-speaker/523-afd620c8-b8e7-467c-a240-46ecee86ab83 |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=wnep.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

On Sundays, the paper is published as '''''The Sunday Times'''''. In the 12 months preceding September 2022, the paper had a daily average circulation of 24,434.<ref name="CirculationRef" />

==History== The current paper is the result of a 2005 merger between the afternoon ''Scranton Times'' and morning ''Scranton Tribune''.

The ''Times'' was founded in 1870. It struggled under six owners before E. J. Lynett bought the paper in 1895. Within 20 years, the ''Times'' was the dominant newspaper in northeastern Pennsylvania, and the third-largest in the state (behind only the ''Philadelphia Inquirer'' and the ''Pittsburgh Press''). In January 1923, Lynett founded one of Scranton's first radio stations, WQAN.<ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3221817&view=1up&seq=25 "New Stations"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509190844/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3221817&view=1up&seq=25 |date=2022-05-09 }}, ''Radio Service Bulletin'', February 1, 1923, page 3.</ref> The Lynett family still owns the station today under the calls WEJL.

Lynett died in 1943. His three children took control of the paper with William R. Lynett, the oldest, as publisher and editor. He died in 1946; siblings Edward J. and Elizabeth R. Lynett took over as co-publishers, with Edward J. as editor. Edward J. Lynett died in 1966, and his four children took over. Shortly after they took over, the ''Times'' expanded to a full week with the appearance of ''The Sunday Times''.<ref name="Review">[http://www.thedailyreview.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2276&dept_id=465038&newsid=13419481&PAG=461&rfi=9 Thedailyreview.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509190831/https://www.thedailyreview.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2276&dept_id=465038&newsid=13419481&PAG=461&rfi=9 |date=2022-05-09 }}, Scranton Times and Scranton Tribune history, from The Daily Review</ref>

In 1990, the ''Times'' bought the remains of its principal rival, the morning ''Scrantonian-Tribune''. This paper had been founded in 1891 as the ''Scranton Tribune''. In 1910, it merged with Scranton's first newspaper, ''The Morning Republican'', and changed its name to the ''Scranton Republican''. After Louis A. Watres and Laurence Hawley Watres sold the ''Republican'' in 1934, it became the ''Scranton Tribune'' once again in 1936.<ref>{{cite news |last=Watres |first=Louis A. |date=February 17, 1934 |title=Change of Ownership |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116024762/ownership/ |work=Scranton Republican |location=Scranton, PA |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In 1938, Richard Little, owner of Scranton's Sunday paper, ''The Scrantonian'' (founded 1897), teamed up with Morris L. Goodman to buy the ''Tribune'' as well. The Goodman-Little family partnership continued for almost half a century, until Richard Little III sold his interest to the Goodmans in 1986. Only a year later, Media One Corporation (no relation to the cable company) bought out the Goodmans and merged the two papers into one seven-day morning paper, ''The Scrantonian-Tribune''. However, Media One was unable to turn the paper around. In 1990, it shuttered the paper.<ref name="Review" /> The Lynetts bought the ''Scrantonian-Tribune'' nameplate and some other assets, and relaunched the paper as the ''Scranton Tribune'', with much of the same content as the ''Times'' (except for timely editing).

By 2004, it was obvious that Scranton could no longer support a morning and afternoon paper, and the Lynetts announced that their two papers would merge into one morning paper, ''The Times-Tribune''. The new paper first rolled off the presses on July 27, 2005. However, its legal name for some years afterward was still ''The Scranton Times''; until the Lynetts sold the paper, the licensee for sister radio station WEJL and its satellites was "The Scranton Times L.P."

In April 2023, the newspaper ceased offering a print edition on Mondays, replacing it with a digital version instead.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 10, 2023 |title=Times-Shamrock newspapers go digital Monday |url=https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/times-tribune-newspaper-goes-digital-mondays-newspaper-scranton-times/523-71880bf3-27c0-44eb-8a85-e1f46e2dcdbb |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=wnep.com |language=en-US}}</ref> That August, Times-Shamrock Communications sold the ''Times-Tribune'' and three other daily newspapers to MediaNews Group, ending the Lynetts' 128-year ownership.<ref name=2023Sale/> thumb|right|The paper's headquarters in Scranton

==Endorsements== The ''Times'' endorsed George W. Bush in 2000, but did not endorse anyone in 2004. ''The Times-Tribune'' endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. The paper endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016, then native Scrantonian Joe Biden in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorial/hillary-clinton-for-president/article_5cd6dff0-a635-5c43-9053-4b0f51304a38.html|title=Hillary Clinton for president|work=Scranton Times-Tribune |access-date=2022-01-21|archive-date=2022-01-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121181059/https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorial/hillary-clinton-for-president/article_5cd6dff0-a635-5c43-9053-4b0f51304a38.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorial/joe-biden-best-suited-to-challenge/article_6524e039-9aa7-5446-b9ee-ae7ddd01f935.html|title=Joe Biden best suited to challenge|work=Scranton Times-Tribune |access-date=2022-01-21|archive-date=2022-01-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121181059/https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorial/joe-biden-best-suited-to-challenge/article_6524e039-9aa7-5446-b9ee-ae7ddd01f935.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Awards== ''The Scranton Times'' won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1946, while the ''Scranton Tribune'' and ''Scrantonian'' (then separately owned) won the prize for Local Reporting in 1959.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1946 Pulitzer Prizes |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1946 |access-date=2023-11-22 |website=www.pulitzer.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=1959 Pulitzer Prizes |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1959 |access-date=2023-11-22 |website=www.pulitzer.org |language=en}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/ ''The Times-Tribune''] founded in 2005

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