Cleveland Free Times

{{short description|Alternative weekly newspaper}}

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{{Infobox Newspaper

| name = Cleveland Free Times

| image = Cleveland Free Times front page.jpg

| caption =

| type = Alternative weekly

| format = Tabloid

| foundation = {{start date and age|1992}}

| ceased publication = {{end date and age|2008}}

| price =

| owners = Kildysart LLC

| publisher = Matt Fabyan

| editor = Frank Lewis

| language = English

| circulation = 75,000{{cite web|url=http://aan.org/alternative/Aan/ViewCompany?oid=oid%3A15|title=Cleveland Free Times|publisher=Association of Alternative Newsweeklies|accessdate=2007-01-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070131193317/http://www.aan.org/alternative/Aan/ViewCompany?oid=oid%3A15|archive-date=2007-01-31|url-status=dead}}

| headquarters = 800 W. St. Clair Avenue
Second Floor
Cleveland, Ohio 44113-1266
, U.S.

| ISSN =

| website = [http://www.freetimes.com/ freetimes.com]

}}

The Cleveland Free Times was an alternative weekly newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. Its first issue was published on September 30, 1992.{{Cite web|url=http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=CFT1|title=Cleveland Free Times|date=11 May 2018}}

The Free Times and Cleveland Scene, a competing weekly paper, were purchased by Times-Shamrock Communications, located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in June 2008.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ideastream.org/news/scene-and-cleveland-free-times-merge|title = Scene and Cleveland Free Times Merge|date = 20 June 2008}} Times-Shamrock is a media company that publishes daily and weekly newspapers throughout Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Florida, Michigan, and Texas. They also own radio stations in Baltimore.{{cite press release |title=Times-Shamrock Buys Cleveland Free Times, Cleveland Scene |url= http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/times-shamrock-buys-cleveland-free-times-cleveland-scene/Article?oid=350078|publisher= Association of Alternative Newsweeklies |date= June 21, 2008 |accessdate=October 19, 2012}} The Free Times published its final issue on July 16, 2008. It merged with Cleveland Scene.

Noteworthy staff members included Roldo Bartimole.{{Cite web|url=http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=CFT1|title=Cleveland Free Times|date=11 May 2018}}