Times & Transcript

The Times & Transcript building in downtown Moncton
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Brunswick News
Editor vacant as of February 16, 2015
Founded 1868, as The Times and Westmorland and Albert Local News Journal
Headquarters 939 Main Street
Moncton, New Brunswick
E1C 1G8
Circulation 33,033 daily
35,468 Saturday in 2011[1]
Sister newspapers The Daily Gleaner
Telegraph-Journal
Website www.timestranscript.com

The Times & Transcript is a newspaper from Moncton, New Brunswick. It serves Greater Moncton and eastern New Brunswick. Its offices and printing facilities are located on Main Street in Downtown Moncton. The paper is published by Brunswick News, privately owned by J.K. Irving.

The Times & Transcript building also houses the presses that print all Brunswick News newspapers, including Saint John's Telegraph Journal and Fredericton's The Daily Gleaner. It also produces 14 weekly newspapers in both French and English serving all major communities in New Brunswick.

History

The Times and Transcript was formed by the merger of The Moncton Times and The Moncton Transcript in 1983. The following tables contain the historical names of both those papers.

Moncton Times

Name Years
The Times and Westmorland and Albert Local News Journal 1868–1877
Daily Times 1877–1932
Moncton Daily Times 1932–1971
Moncton Times 1971–1982

Moncton Transcript

Name Years
Daily Transcript 1882–1905
Moncton Transcript 1906–1982

In 2015, the long-time Managing Editor of the paper, Al Hogan, and Assistant Managing Editor Murray Guy were fired by the paper after an internal ethics probe.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Audit Bureau of Circulations e-Circ data for the six months ending September 30, 2011. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
  2. ↑ "2 Moncton Times & Transcript editors out after ethics probe". CBC News New Brunswick (CBC). Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 16 February 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2015.

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Coordinates: 46°05′16″N 64°46′56″W / 46.0877°N 64.7821°W / 46.0877; -64.7821


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