Times News

What Times News does

Times News, operating through its legal entity Times News Media Group, LLC, is a privately held local newspaper founded in 1883 and headquartered at 594 Blakeslee Boulevard Drive West in Lehighton, Pennsylvania. The company serves residents and businesses across five northeastern Pennsylvania counties — Carbon, Monroe, Northampton and Lehigh, and Schuylkill — covering the Lehigh Valley region with a mix of local news, sports, court news, obituaries, community features, and syndicated AP national/regional/world content. Times News employs between 51 and 100 staff and is privately held with no disclosed parent company, external investors, or acquisition activity.

The product surface is built around tnonline.com as the core digital news platform, supplemented by an ePaper digital replica edition, a Marketplace for classifieds, a dedicated Legal Notices portal, a TN Newsletter email product, photo galleries, an event calendar, subscription management tools, and themed Special Reports (Bridal, Car Care, Home & Garden, Business Journal, America 250, and senior/medical/legal guides). Content syndication is handled through an AP News partnership, and obituary placement is fulfilled through a Legacy.com partnership. Distribution is multi-channel, spanning the website, ePaper, print newspaper at retail outlets, email, and social media (Twitter @Times_News).

The business model is a traditional community-newspaper stack operating six revenue streams: print and digital advertising, paid print and digital subscriptions, classified marketplace fees, legal notice placements, obituary services, and sponsored special-section publishing. Customers fall into three horizontal segments — individual readers/subscribers seeking hyperlocal coverage, local businesses purchasing display, classified, and sponsored-content advertising, and government/legal entities required to publish statutory public notices — with pricing held behind an undisclosed paywall and customer service reachable at 800-443-0377.

Name

Times News

Legal name

Times News Media Group, LLC

Website

https://tnonline.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1883

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Times News is a privately held Pennsylvania community newspaper founded in 1883, serving Carbon, Monroe, Northampton, Lehigh, and Schuylkill counties through tnonline.com, an ePaper edition, a classifieds marketplace, and a legal notices platform. It monetizes via subscriptions, advertising, classifieds, and public notice placements.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Local Newspaper Publishing

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (513110), Newspaper Publishers (51311)

SIC

Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2711)

akta.pro primary industry

Local & Regional Newspapers (Print & Digital) (MPAJADAB)

Keywords

• Local newspaper publishing
• Community journalism
• Newspaper subscriptions
• Classified advertising
• Legal notice publishing

Headquarters

HQ city

Lehighton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Advertising: Print and digital advertising including display ads, sponsored content, and paid content partnerships with advertisers
2. Subscriptions: Paid subscriptions for print and digital access including ePaper
3. Classified Ads: Revenue from classified marketplace including job listings, marketplace listings, and personal classifieds
4. Legal Notices: Legal advertisement placements required for public notices including estate notices, sheriff sales, zoning notices, and municipal announcements
5. Obituary Services: Obituary placement services through partnership with Legacy.com
6. Special Sections and Reports: Sponsored special report sections including Bridal guides, Car Care, Fairs, Home & Garden, and Business Journal publications

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Times News is a community news publisher serving Carbon, Monroe, Northampton, Lehigh, and Schuylkill counties in Pennsylvania. The company distributes local journalism, sports coverage, obituaries, court news, opinion content, and community features through its tnonline.com website, ePaper digital edition, and printed newspaper. It also operates a classifieds marketplace, publishes legal and public notices, and produces sponsored special sections for weddings, business profiles, fairs, and seasonal guides.

Product overview

Times News Online operates as a digital news platform serving Carbon, Monroe, Northampton, Lehigh, and Schuylkill counties in Pennsylvania. The core offering is the Times News Online website, which distributes local journalism including news, sports, features, and community coverage. The platform supplements its primary news service with several integrated modules: ePaper for digital replica of the printed edition, Marketplace for classifieds and legal notices, TN Newsletter for email news delivery, Photo Galleries for visual storytelling, Event Calendar for community activities, and Subscription Management for reader account services. Special Reports and themed special sections provide targeted coverage of topics like business profiles, seasonal events, and commemorative celebrations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Times News Online Primary digital news platform providing local news, AP News, court news, obituaries, opinion pieces, police logs, and ePaper services for the Lehigh Valley and surrounding Pennsylvania communities.
• ePaper Digital Edition Digital version of the printed newspaper available for online viewing and reading on desktop and mobile devices.
• Marketplace Classifieds Classified advertising platform for placing classified ads, including job listings, marketplace listings, personal classifieds, and obituary announcements.
• Legal Notices Platform for publishing and accessing legal notices, public hearings, sheriff sales, estate notices, and municipal announcements for compliance with statutory public-notice requirements.
• TN Newsletter Email newsletter delivering news updates and headlines to subscribers via opt-in email distribution.
• Photo Galleries Collections of photographs documenting local events, sports, and community features for online browsing.
• Event Calendar Community calendar listing local events, activities, and gatherings throughout the Lehigh Valley coverage area.
• Subscription Management Portal Online account management system for subscribers to manage subscriptions, access digital content, and update account preferences.
• Special Reports and Sections Themed content sections including Business Profile, Bridal guides, Car Care guides, Fair coverage, Home & Garden guides, Education guide, Legal guide, Medical guide, Senior guide, Staycation guide, Cook Book, America 250 commemorative edition, and 2026 Graduation special edition.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• The Republican-Herald: Pottsville-based daily newspaper covering Schuylkill County, directly overlapping Times News' Schuylkill County readership and offering a comparable local-news, classifieds, and legal-notice product mix.
• lehighvalleylive (The Express-Times): Digital-first and print newspaper covering Northampton and Lehigh counties under Advance Local, competing directly with Times News for the same Lehigh Valley readers and advertisers via the same print + digital + classifieds model.
• The Daily Item: Daily newspaper serving the Susquehanna Valley in central PA, operating the same local newspaper business model (print, digital, classifieds, legal notices) and competing for similar small-market readership and SMB advertising.
• The Morning Call: Regional daily newspaper based in Allentown covering the Lehigh Valley (Lehigh and Northampton counties), directly competing with Times News in two of its five coverage counties with a larger newsroom and Lehigh Valley brand.
• Pocono Record: Daily newspaper covering Monroe County and the Poconos in northeastern Pennsylvania, directly overlapping Times News' Monroe County coverage and serving a similar hyperlocal audience with the same print + digital business model.
• The Standard-Journal: Community newspaper serving Northumberland and Union counties in central Pennsylvania, with a comparable small-market print + digital + classifieds structure and similar local-legal-notice revenue profile.

Broad incumbents

• Lee Enterprises: Major US newspaper publisher operating local dailies across small and mid-size markets, representative of the consolidation-driven peer group for independent community papers and a plausible acquirer/integrator profile.
• Gannett (USA TODAY Network): Largest US newspaper chain publishing hundreds of local dailies via USA TODAY Network, providing the dominant benchmark for digital subscription, ad-tech, and shared-services economics that small independents like Times News must compete against.

Emerging players

• Adams Publishing Group: Private media company that has rapidly acquired community newspapers and niche publications across the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, a like-scale consolidator and a structural comp for evaluating independent local-paper rollups.

Regional players

• WNEP-TV (Newswatch 16): Television station covering northeastern and central Pennsylvania, including Carbon, Monroe, Lackawanna and Luzerne counties, competing with Times News for the same local-news audience and local-advertising dollars across a different medium.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/times_news

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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