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The
Bucks County Courier Times has a rich history and
is thriving today as an independent, family-owned
operation because it takes its mission very seriously
– “to provide news, information and services
to enable our communities to prosper.”
The Courier Times has a dedicated work force of 209
full-time and 368 part-time employees who come from
all parts of Bucks County and beyond, and through
their efforts – as well as with the help of
800 carriers – they produce and distribute an
award-winning newspaper read by 140,000 adults every
day.
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With
a news operation staffed by 80 reporters, editors, photographers
and designers, they provide wide-ranging coverage of
Lower Bucks County.
In 2004 the Courier Times began printing on an ultra-modern
press at its new 64,000 square-foot production plant
in Falls Township, dramatically expanding its color
capabilities and improving its reproduction quality
to better serve readers and advertisers. It is also
beginning to offer commercial printing services.
The Courier Times offers a large array of advertising
programs and options to serve businesses of all sizes,
combining audiences with those of its sister newspapers,
The Intelligencer and the Burlington County Times (NJ),
to comprise Greater Philadelphia Newspapers, which reaches
370,760 readers daily and 446,695 Sunday.
On the Internet, they maintain a 24/7 portal site, phillyBurbs.com,
that has over 640,000 unique users who generate more
than 10 million page views per month. The site includes
content from all three GPN sites plus Job Search, Car
Search, Home Search and much more.
In response to advertiser and reader needs, the Courier
Times has begun producing several niche publications
distributed through a variety of channels.
The Courier Times is part of Calkins Media,
which also owns the The Intelligencer and Burlington
County Times, as well as The Beaver County Times
(PA), The Uniontown Herald-Standard (PA), The
Greene County Messenger (PA), The Ellwood City
Ledger (PA), The South Dade News Leader (FL),
Philly EDGE (PA), and three television stations,
two in Florida, WWSB-ABC 7 and WTXL-ABC 27,
and one in Huntsville, Alabama, WAAY New TV.
The Courier Times’ impact goes beyond news, information,
and opinion that are printed each day, because the newspaper
company is active throughout Lower Bucks County in organizing
or sponsoring dozens of special events every year and
partnering with many community organizations on valuable
public-service projects. The paper’s Newspaper
in Education program, for example, regularly works with
700 classroom teachers at 300
different schools in eight school districts.
The Courier Times is proud of its local family ownership
and its service as a community newspaper. The paper’s
history extends back to 1910 when Bristol Borough businessman
William C. Watson turned the weekly Bristol Courier
into the Bristol Daily Courier. U.S. Sen. Joseph Grundy
purchased the paper in 1914 and kept it until 1954 when
he sold it to S.W. Calkins, who purchased the weekly
Levittown Times and merged both newspapers into the
Bucks County Courier Times. He passed away in 1973 and
today his three daughters – Shirley C. Ellis,
Carolyn C. Smith and Sandra C. Hardy – own the
newspaper.
As the paper’s 100th anniversary draws near, the
Courier Times celebrates its relationship with Lower
Bucks County and looks forward to a bright future serving
customers and the community |
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