The Express-Times is a daily newspaper published in Easton, Pennsylvania

Easton, Pennsylvania

Easton is a city in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 26,800 as of the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Northampton County....

, with an emphasis on local news. It has won awards in both New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

 and Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

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Ownership

Thomson Newspapers bought The Express of Easton in 1983.The paper took on its current name when the Globe-Times of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Bethlehem is a city in Lehigh and Northampton Counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 74,982, making it the seventh largest city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie,...

 merged with The Express.

MediaNews Group

MediaNews Group

MediaNews Group, based in Denver, Colorado, is one of the largest newspaper companies in the United States. It is privately owned and operates 56 daily newspapers in 12 states, with combined daily and Sunday circulation of approximately 2.4 million and 2.7 million, respectively...

 bought The Express-Times from Thomson in 1994. Current owner Advance Publications

Advance Publications

Advance Publications, Inc., is an American media company owned by the descendants of S.I. Newhouse Sr., Donald Newhouse and S.I. Newhouse, Jr. It is named after the Staten Island Advance, the first newspaper owned by the Newhouse family...

 bought MediaNews' New Jersey and Pennsylvania newspapers in 2000.

Management

• Martin K. Till, president and publisher
• Joseph P. Owens, editor
• Robert F. Rothacker Jr., vice president, circulation/operations
• Kenneth R. Vance, controller

Distribution

The Express-Times publishes three zoned editions (Bethlehem, Easton and New Jersey) and delivers to Lehigh and Northampton counties in Pennsylvania, Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey.

History

First printed 1855 as The Easton Daily Express, the name changed to The Easton Express in 1917 and was abbreviated to The Express in 1973. In 1991, The Express merged with The Globe-Times of Bethlehem

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Bethlehem is a city in Lehigh and Northampton Counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 74,982, making it the seventh largest city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie,...

 to become The Express-Times.

Sections

The Express-Times has four editorial sections:

• Front: Local, national and world news
• Valley: Local news and obituaries from the Lehigh Valley
  Lehigh Valley
  The Lehigh Valley, known officially by the United States Census Bureau as the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metropolitan area and referred to locally as The Valley and A-B-E, is a metropolitan region consisting of Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, and Carbon counties in eastern Pennsylvania and...
  
  
• Sports: Local and national sports
• Today: Local and national arts & entertainment
• Editorials, classifieds, comics, horoscopes and puzzles also appear each day.

Inserts

The following are inserted into The Express-Times during the week.

• Monday: The sports section is published in the form of a tabloid called SportsPLUS
• Friday: Exposed, an entertainment tabloid
• Saturday: Home Source, a real estate guide
• Sunday: Leisure, Sunday (two features sections), news from The Wall Street Journal
  The Wall Street Journal
  The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
  
   and full color comics.

Other publications

The Express-Times also publishes a weekly, The US, based in Nazareth, Pennsylvania

Nazareth, Pennsylvania

Nazareth is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The population was 6,023 at the 2000 census.Nazareth is located seven miles northwest of Easton, four miles north of Bethlehem and twelve miles northeast of Allentown...

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External links

• Express-Times online site, LehighValleyLive.com.