The TimesLedger Newspapers is a chain of paid circulation weekly newspapers covering news, sports and events of concern to residents of the borough of Queens, New York.[1] The company's flagship paper is the Bayside Times, which was founded in 1935 as the paper of record for Bayside, New York, where its offices are presently based. The newspapers are owned by Schneps Media.

History

Schneps Media was founded in 1985.

NewsCorp acquired the TimesLedger in 2008.[2] In 2014, News Corp sold its Community Newspaper Group to Les Goodstein, the former company executive, and to his wife Jennifer.[3] Schneps Media acquired Community News Group in September 2018.[4]

Editions currently published by the paper include the Bayside Times and the Flushing Times, which cover northeast Queens, and the TimesLedger,[5][6] which covers western and southern Queens.[7]

TimesLedger won six New York Press Awards in 2009[8] and 13 New York Press Association Awards in 2010.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "About Us". YourNabe.com.
  2. ↑ "News Corporation Acquires Two New York City Neighborhood Newspaper Groups – TimesLedger and Courier-Life". News Corporation. Rubenstein Communications, Inc.
  3. ↑ "News Corp. sells Community Newspaper Group to Les and Jennifer Goodstein". Capital New York. June 23, 2014. Archived from the original on December 14, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  4. ↑ "SCHNEPS COMMUNICATIONS ACQUIRES COMMUNITY NEWS GROUP AND NYC COMMUNITY MEDIA, CREATING DOMINANT LOCAL-MEDIA COMPANY". Brooklyn Paper. September 14, 2018. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
  5. ↑ Jeff Vandam (November 6, 2005). "When the Crime Fighter Is a Hidden Camera". The New York Times. was first reported in The Queens Times Ledger.
  6. ↑ Jeff Vandam (February 4, 2007). "All the Aches of Old Age, and Now One More". The New York Times. reported in The Times Ledger, a local weekly.
  7. ↑ "Areas of Circulation". Daye and Company.
  8. ↑ Gustafson, Anna. "TimesLedger wins six New York Press Awards". YourNabe.com.
  9. ↑ Bockmann, Rich. "TimesLedger wins 13 journalism awards at NYPA". YourNabe.com.


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