Times Herald-Record
Circulation 20,409 (as of 2018)[1] | | |
Website | recordonline.com |
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The Times Herald-Record, often referred to as The Record or Middletown Record[
It came into being in the late 1950s when Middletown's two papers merged. It is owned by Gannett.
History
A newspaper has been in existence in some form in the city of Middletown since 1851. The Times Herald was the result of a 1927 merger of the Times-Press, a merger of the old Middletown (
In November 1959, James H. Ottaway Sr., the founder of Ottaway Newspapers Inc.,
The Record was often an innovator in newspaper publishing and was one of the first to print color. The newspaper underwent a significant redesign and page cut-down in 2007. At that time, The Sunday Record was given the standard Times Herald-Record nameplate. In 2008, the newspaper's Web site, recordonline.com, underwent a complementary redesign. The in-print and online redesigns were launched to coincide with bolstered local and business news coverage.
The Record is the newspaper covering
On September 4, 2013,
In February 2024, the newspaper announced it will switch from carrier to postal delivery.[6]
Prominent employees
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- Avrom "Al" Romm (1926–1999), named city editor of the Daily Record in 1957, became the Times Herald-Record first Joseph J. Romm.[7]
- Malcolm Browne, who later won the Pulitzer Prize covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press.[2]
- Manny Fuchs (1924–2005) joined the Daily Record in 1957 and became chief photographer in 1960.[8] He was a concentration camp survivor who became a photojournalist.[9] Before and during his stint at the Record, he photographed Picasso, Marilyn Monroe, Tennessee Williams, and Ben Hecht, among others. In 1966, he went to Vietnam to take pictures of hometown soldiers in the war zone. In addition to his photojournalism assignments, he was a patient teacher[10] but hard taskmaster. After retiring, he and his wife returned to her native France and lived in Paris, but came back to Middletown where they lived until his death in 2005.
- Glenn Doty, one of the paper's former Albany.
- Hunter S. Thompson, the future creator of gonzo journalism was fired by Editor A.N. Romm after "kicking open the office candy machine with his bare feet - again."[2]
- Mike Levine (1952–2007), began as a columnist in 1983, working his way up to executive editor in 1999. After a year's hiatus in 2001, he became executive editor in 2002.[11] The Mike Levine Journalism Education Fund was founded after his death, and sponsors an annual training for aspiring writers at The Mike Levine Workshop.[12] The workshop is led each year by prominent writers.[13] In addition, an annual Mike Levine Column Read-a-Thon is held which raises money for the Education Fund.[14] Levine is the first writer in the history of The Record for whom every article he had written is available online by archive [15] A clip of Levine addressing his community is on YouTube.[16]
- Mark Pittman (1957–2009), former Metro-Editor until 1997 when he left to work for Bloomberg News to break international headlines as a reporter who called the financial crisis of 2007.
- Glenn Ritt, former city editor in the late 1970s who went on to become editor of the Bergen Record.
References
- ^ "2018 Legacy NEWM Annual Reports" (PDF). investors.gannett.com. 2018.
- ^ a b c d Burkhart, Wade. "About Us". The Times Herald-Record. Archived March 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ravo, Nick (January 6, 2000). "James Ottaway Sr., 88, Executive Who Started Newspaper Chain". The New York Times.
- ^ "News Corp. sells 33 papers to New York investors". New York Business Journal. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- ^ "GateHouse Files for Bankruptcy as Part of Fortress Plan". Bloomberg.
- ^ "Times Herald-Record transitioning to postal delivery". Times Herald-Record. February 14, 2024. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ^ Bedell, Barbara (December 1999). "Record's first editor dies". Times Herald-Record. Archived from the original on 2016-08-03.
- ^ Farlekas, Chris; July 10, 2005; A salute to Manny Fuchs July 10, 2005; Times Herald-Record
- ^ A Place Called Auschwitz Archived 2006-12-10 at the Wayback Machine Rayburn Hesse; March 9, 1993
- ^ Bedell, Barbara; March 19, 2003; Columnist celebrates 30th anniversary; Times Herald-Record
- ^ Obituary: Mike Levine January 15, 2007
- ^ "Mike Levine Workshop". Archived from the original on 2008-01-15. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ^ "Spotlight: Mike Levine Workshop". Shandelee Lake Inn Blog. Archived from the original on May 2, 2010. Retrieved June 1, 2023.
- ^ "3rd Annual Mike Levine column read-a-Thon" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ^ "The Mike Levine Workshop - Column Archive". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ^ "Mike Levine talks to Monticello". YouTube.
External links
- Official website
- Williams, Franklin B. (1928). Middletown a Biography (PDF). pp. 175–181.