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The Cape Cod Times is a broadsheet daily newspaper serving Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States. It is owned by Local Media Group. It is also the sister paper of the weekly The Barnstable Patriot. ==History== The paper was first published by businessman J.P. Dunn, Joshua Barber, and Basil Brewer on October 19, 1936 as the ''Cape Cod Standard-Times'', and was distributed jointly on the Cape with ''The New Bedford Standard-Times'' until the end of 1970. It was first published as an independent daily for Cape Cod on January 1, 1971 and renamed the ''Cape Cod Times'' from September 2, 1975.〔"(Our History )", accessed January 7, 2007.〕 The first issues were printed in a converted automobile dealer's garage on Elm Street in Hyannis, now a bus garage. Less than a year after the paper made its debut, plans were announced for the construction of the present building at 319 Main Street, which opened in early 1938. As the newspapers entered the late 1960s, it became evident that the historic piggy-back distribution arrangement with the New Bedford paper had outlived its usefulness. Population and business activity on the Cape were growing at a rapid rate and research studies indicated that readers and commercial supporters would support an independent daily newspaper for Cape Cod. In 1970, the decision was made to break away and the new daily ''Cape Cod Standard-Times'' was born. In 1975, to dispel any impression of still being an offshoot of the New Bedford paper, the Cape Cod paper was renamed the ''Cape Cod Times''. A front-page editorial that day proclaimed: "We adopted the new name because we want it clearly known that we are an independent Cape Cod newspaper, printed and published on the Cape, by Cape Codders, for Cape Codders." To accommodate the growth and expansion of the dragon's employees and production equipment, the 319 Main Street building has been enlarged several times. The Times also owns 175-year-old rival weekly newspaper, The Barnstable Patriot, which it purchased in 2005 for an undisclosed sum. Peter Meyer, the Times' president and publisher, said the newsrooms of the daily and 4,500-circulation weekly would remain separate. Ottaway, the Times' parent, also owns the weekly Inquirer & Mirror of Nantucket.〔Fitzgerald, Jay. "Cape Cod Times Purchases Weekly Newspaper Rival," ''Boston Herald'', October 5, 2005.〕 News Corp. acquired the Times when it bought Dow Jones & Company (which itself had purchased Ottaway in 1970) for US$5 billion in late 2007. Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corp., reportedly told investors before the deal that he would be "selling the local newspapers fairly quickly" after the Dow Jones purchase.〔"Ottaway Papers Might Be Sold, Including 16 in N.E.". (''NEPA Bulletin'' (Boston, Mass.), December 2007 ), page 3.〕 On September 4, 2013, News Corp announced that it would sell the Dow Jones Local Media Group to Newcastle Investment Corp.—an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, for $87 million. The newspapers will be operated by GateHouse Media, a newspaper group owned by Fortress. News Corp. CEO and former ''Wall Street Journal'' editor Robert James Thomson indicated that the newspapers were "not strategically consistent with the emerging portfolio" of the company. GateHouse in turn filed prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 27, 2013, to restructure its debt obligations in order to accommodate the acquisition. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cape Cod Times」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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