Whidbey News-Times is a twice-weekly (Wednesday and Saturday) newspaper published in Oak Harbor, Washington, United States covering general news on Whidbey Island. It is owned by Sound Publishing Inc., a subsidiary of Black Press. Its sister paper is the South Whidbey Record. Another sister paper, the Whidbey Examiner, was shuttered in 2017.[2]

History

The newspaper was formed from the 1959 merger of the Island County Times (founded in Coupeville in 1891) with the Oak Harbor News,[3] and was acquired by Sound Publishing (then Whidbey Press) in 1987.[4] The News-Times was published in Oak Harbor until 2010, when its operations were merged with those of the Record in Coupeville, Washington.[3] It returned to Oak Harbor in 2020.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Sound Publishing Media Kit 2023" (PDF). soundpublishing.com. April 1, 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 28, 2023. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
  2. ^ Graves, Keven (January 4, 2017). "After 22 years, The Examiner will cease publication". Whidbey News-Times. Retrieved June 17, 2024.
  3. ^ a b Stensland, Jessie (February 3, 2010). "Whidbey News-Times and South Whidbey Record are moving". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved June 16, 2024.
  4. ^ "Our History". Sound Publishing, Inc. Retrieved July 23, 2024.
  5. ^ Graves, Keven (June 13, 2020). "Newspaper returns to broadsheet format, moves to new home". Whidbey News-Times. Retrieved July 23, 2024.


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