The Altus Times is a twice-a-week newspaper based in

Altus, Oklahoma Altus () is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 18,729 at the 2020 census. Altus is home to Altus Air Force Base, the United States Air Force training base for C-17, KC-46 and KC-135 ...

and owned by Graystone Media Group. It is published Wednesday and Saturday.

History

The original ''Altus Times'' was founded as a weekly newspaper by J. Ed Van Meter in December, 1901.Altus Times Boasts Colorful History
, ''Altus Times'' (accessed February 15, 2010). 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. The paper was previously owned by Heartland Publications. In 2012 Versa Capital Management merged Heartland,

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, former

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papers it had acquired, and Impressions Media into a new company, Civitas Media. Civitas Media sold its Oklahoma papers to Greystone Media Group in 2017.

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* Newspapers published in Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-newspaper-stub