The Times (Shreveport)

The Times is a Gannett daily newspaper based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Its distribution area includes 12 parishes in Northwest Louisiana and three counties in East Texas. Its coverage focuses on issues affecting the Shreveport-Bossier market, and includes investigative reporting, community news, arts and entertainment, government, education, sports, business, and religion, along with local opinion/commentary. Its website provides news updates, videos, photo galleries, forums, blogs, event calendars, entertainment, classifieds, contests, databases, and a regional search engine. Local news content produced by The Times is available on the website at no charge for seven days.

The Times
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Gannett
EditorMisty Castile
Founded1871
Headquarters401 Market Street
Shreveport, Louisiana, US
Websiteshreveporttimes.com

History
Advertisement for Shreveport Times, 1902

From 1895 to 1991, The Times had competition from the afternoon Monday-Saturday daily, the since defunct Shreveport Journal. The papers were later printed at the same 222 Lake Street address and shared opposite sides of the building, but were entirely separate and independent of the other. Publisher Charles T. Beaird, effective March 30, 1991, closed the Shreveport Journal for financial reasons stemming from sharply reduced circulation.[1] Thereafter, the page opposite the editorial page of The Times, commonly called the op-ed page, was reserved as "The Journal Page" for editorial comment until December 31, 1999.

Beginning in October 2017, The Times was no longer locally published because the distribution center in Shreveport closed to reduce production and labor costs. The Times instead is printed at another Gannett publication, the Longview News-Journal in Longview, Texas, a commute of 65 miles one-way. The Monroe News-Star, which had been published in Shreveport, is printed at the Jackson Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi. The change is not expected to impact delivery schedules.[2]

Shreveport Times office building on Lake Street in Shreveport

Sections
  • Main news (first section)
  • Local
  • Sports
  • Classifieds
  • Outlook(Sundays)
  • Flavor (Wednesdays)
  • Arts, culture and entertainment (Thursdays)
  • Lagniappe (Home, garden and weekend guide) (Fridays)
  • Autos (Saturdays and Sundays)
  • Living (Sundays)
  • Real Estate (Sundays)
  • CareerBuilder (Sundays)
  • Business (Sundays)
  • Comics + TV Times (Sundays)
  • High School Sports (in football season on Fridays and Saturdays)
  • LSU section (in football season on Sundays)
  • NFL section (in football season on Mondays)

Publications and websites
  • The Times daily newspaper
  • shreveporttimes.com Online news and information
  • LSUBeat.com Online news and information on LSU sports
  • Get Healthy new monthly health news
  • Red River Moms magazine monthly parenting and child information
  • CareerBuilder Weekly weekly employment listings and career advice
  • Cars.com NUMBER ONE source for new and used cars in NWLA
  • Homefinder Top local real estate section (weekly on Sundays)

See also

References
  1. "Shreveport Journal ends publication after 96 years:, Minden Press-Herald', March 31, 1991, p. 1.
  2. "News-Star to move printing to Jackson," Monroe News-Star, August 23, 2017.
  3. "H. M. "Mutt" Fowler". The Shreveport Times. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
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