| The Express-Times | |
| Type: | Daily newspaper |
| Format: | Broadsheet |
| Foundation: | 1855 as The Easton Daily Express |
| Headquarters: | 18 Centre Square, Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Owners: | Advance Publications |
| President: | Steve Alessi |
| Editor: | Nick Falsone |
| Sportseditor: | Kyle Craig |
| Language: | English |
| Website: | lehighvalleylive.com |
The Express-Times is a daily newspaper based in Easton, Pennsylvania. The newspaper provides national news and extensive local news coverage of the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855, The Express-Times is the longest continuously published newspaper in the Lehigh Valley.
The paper has won awards in both New Jersey[1] and Pennsylvania. In 2021, it won the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting.[2] [3]
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 to become The Express-Times.
Thomson Newspapers bought The Express of Easton in 1983. The paper took on its current name when the Globe-Times of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, merged with The Express. MediaNews Group bought The Express-Times from Thomson in 1994. Current owner Advance Publications bought MediaNews' New Jersey and Pennsylvania newspapers in 2000, and after mishaps in the Sollman case and copy misses (the use of "batty" in a jump line) and declining circulation proceeded to offer buyouts in 2010. Several prominent reporters jumped ship, further compromising the paper's reputation. To add to further humiliation, the once venerable screed was forced to downsize in 2016, moving to an undistinguished smaller property in Center Square. [4]
The Express-Times is also available online at lehighvalleylive.com.[5]
In 2023, with circulation dropping like a rock, the shrinking paper went woke, denying a writer's freedom to "express" his opinions, joiningThe Morning Call in dropping their circulation of the Dilbert comic after Scott Adams, the comic's creator, told White people to "get the hell away from [black people]" on a YouTube live stream in response to a poll, which found that many African Americans do not think it is OK to be white.[6]
The Express-Times publishes zoned editions in the Lehigh Valley and New Jersey. It delivers to Lehigh and Northampton counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in northwest New Jersey.
The Express-Times has four editorial sections:
The following are inserted into The Express-Times during the week:
The Express-Times also publishes a weekly, The US, based in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.