Scranton Times

Owned by Times Shamrock Communications, a privately held company owned by the Lynett family, this afternoon newspaper—one of a vanishing breed in the United States—is published daily in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Its sister paper is The Scranton Tribune, a morning paper. The papers are produced by many of the same staff and feature much of the same local content, except for timely updating.

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Times Shamrock Communications - Scranton, Pennsylvania - Scranton Tribune

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In November 2004, the owners announced that the two papers would merge into a single morning newspaper sometime in the summer of 2005. It will be called The Times-Tribune.

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The Scranton Times was founded in 1870, and purchased by the Lynett family in 1895. The paper won a Pulitzer Prize in 1946 under the Public Service category for "its fifteen-year investigation of judicial practices in the United States District Court for the middle district of Pennsylvania, resulting in removal of the District Judge and indictment of many others," according to the prize's official website.

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