What is the newspaper that the Times Leader is in competition with in the Wilkes-Barre area?”
The Times Leader is a privately owned newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1879, it was locally owned until being purchased by Capital Cities in 1978. The TL, a morning broadsheet, is currently in a circulation battle with another Wilkes-Barre daily newspaper, the Citizens’ Voice. The TL, in the heart of coal country, was subject to a very bitter strike that began Oct. 6, 1978. Over 200 union employees walked off the job in defiance of what they viewed as union-busting tactics by the TLs new corporate owner, Capital Cities. The four striking newspaper unions began to publish the Citizens’ Voice as a strike paper. Eventually the four unions were decertified. The Voice continued publication. This in turn prompted competition and created the unusual environment where Wilkes-Barre, with its population of a little more than 43,000, now has two competing dailies. The Times Leader was steadily returned to its position of prominence as the leading daily in Luzerne County both in
The Times Leader is a privately owned newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1879, it was locally owned until being purchased by Capital Cities in 1978. The TL, a morning broadsheet, is currently in a circulation battle with another Wilkes-Barre daily newspaper, the Citizens’ Voice. The TL, in the heart of coal country, was subject to a very bitter strike that began Oct. 6, 1978. Over 200 union employees walked off the job in defiance of what they viewed as union-busting tactics by the TLs new corporate owner, Capital Cities. The four striking newspaper unions began to publish the Citizens’ Voice as a strike paper.
