TimesDaily

{{Short description|American newspaper from Florence, Alabama}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox newspaper

| name = The TimesDaily

| image =

| caption = The TimesDaily
August 14, 2018

| type = Daily newspaper

| format = Broadsheet

| owners = Tennessee Valley Printing Co., Inc.

| foundation = 1890

| headquarters = 219 W. Tennessee Street
Florence, Alabama 35630
United States

| editor = Gary Maitland

| publisher = Darrell Sandlin

| circulation = 28,900 Daily
30,500 Sunday

| website = {{URL|timesdaily.com}}

}}

The TimesDaily is the daily newspaper for Florence, Alabama. The TimesDaily covers a four-county region in Alabama including Lauderdale, Colbert, Franklin, and Lawrence counties, as well as portions of southern Tennessee and northeast Mississippi. In addition to editorial offices in Florence, The TimesDaily maintains a state capital bureau in Montgomery.{{cite web |url=http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=ABOUT01 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20061119131855/http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=ABOUT01 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2006-11-19 |work=The TimesDaily |title=Staff Listing}}

The newspaper is owned by the Tennessee Valley Printing Co., which also publishes The Decatur Daily. The TimesDaily has a twelve-month average circulation of 28,900 daily and 30,500 Sunday.{{cite web|url=http://www.nytco.com/company/business_units/regional_media_group.html |publisher=New York Times Company |title=Business Units |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080324051819/http://www.nytco.com/company/business_units/regional_media_group.html |archive-date=March 24, 2008 }} Of the 25 daily newspapers published in Alabama, The TimesDaily has the seventh highest daily circulation.{{cite web|url=http://www.alabamapress.org/uploads/ratesheet08.pdf |publisher=Alabama Press Association |title=2008 Ratesheet |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080625002318/http://www.alabamapress.org/uploads/ratesheet08.pdf |archive-date=June 25, 2008 }}

The TimesDaily was founded in 1889 as The Florence Times and published its first edition on July 4, 1890. A sister paper, The Tri-Cities Daily, was founded in 1907. The merger of these two newspapers in 1967,{{Cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85044994/|title=The Times + tri-cities daily.|work=Chronicling America|access-date=2018-06-02|publisher=Library of Congress}} which published for a time as The Florence Times—Tri-Cities Daily, gives The TimesDaily its distinctive name. In 1972, the TimesDaily was acquired by Worrell Newspapers.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=p3A0AAAAIBAJ&pg=1536,1847211 |title=Newspaper had early start |newspaper=TimesDaily |date=May 14, 2006 |author= |via=Google News}} The New York Times Company acquired 8 daily papers, including the TimesDaily, from Worrell in 1982.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z15BAAAAIBAJ&pg=2267,769900 |title=N.Y. Times Company Is Acquiring The Enterprise, Other Newspapers |newspaper=Harlan Daily Enterprise |date=September 16, 1982 |author= |via=Google News}} The Tennessee Valley Printing Co. purchased the TimesDaily from the New York Times Regional Media Group, a subsidiary of the New York Times Company, in March 2009.{{cite news |first=Matt |last=McKean |url=http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20090325/ARTICLES/903255029 |title=NYT Sells TimesDaily |work=TimesDaily |date=March 25, 2009 |access-date=June 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327081717/http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20090325/ARTICLES/903255029 |archive-date=March 27, 2009 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}