''The Daily Times'' is a morning daily English-language (broadsheet) publication based in
Salisbury, Maryland
Salisbury ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. Salisbury is the largest city in Eastern Shore of Maryland, the state's Eastern Shore region, with a population of 33,050 at the 2020 United States census ...
, United States, and primarily covers Wicomico, Worcester, and Somerset counties, and regional coverage across the Delmarva Peninsula. It has been a Gannett 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
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Gannett
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It owns the national newspaper ''USA Today'', as well as several ...
bought the paper from Thomson in 2000.
The paper began publication in 1886 as ''The Wicomico News'', a weekly. 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''.
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 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
Salisbury University is a public university in Salisbury, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1925, Salisbury University is a member of the University System of Maryland, with a fall 2022 enrollment of 7,123.
Salisbury University offers unde ...
, 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 dollars, 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
''The News Journal'' is a daily newspaper in Wilmington, Delaware. It is headquartered in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, near New Castle, and is owned by Gannett.
History
The ancestry of the News Journal reflects the mergers of ...
''s production facility in
Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington is the List of municipalities in Delaware, most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish colonization of the Americas, Swedish settlement in North America. It lie ...
. Due to the move, 17 production jobs were eliminated.
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.
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, David Ledford, Laura Benedict Sileo, and Keith Demko.
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). 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. The DMG serves a readership that covers Sussex County, Delaware; Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester counties in Maryland; and Accomack and Northampton counties in Virginia.