Air Force Times
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Air Force Times is a weekly newspaper serving active, reserve and retired United States Air Force
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...

 and Air National Guard
Air National Guard
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 personnel and their families, providing news, information and analysis as well as community and lifestyle features, educational supplements, and resource guides.

Air Force Times is published by Gannett Government Media
Gannett Government Media
Gannett Government Media, formerly the Army Times Publishing Company, is a United States company which publishes newspapers, magazines, Web sites, and other publications about the U.S. and other militaries. Founded in 1940, it was purchased by the Gannett Company in August 1997.It publishes four...

, part of Gannett
Gannett Company
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. Gannett Government Media, formerly known as the Army Times Publishing Company, was purchased by Gannett
Gannett Company
Gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly-traded media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States, near McLean. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. Its assets include the national newspaper USA Today and the weekly USA Weekend...

 in 1997 from the Times Journal Company.

Military Times newspapers are the most purchased publications in Exchange shops and defense commissaries, beating such national bestsellers as People and Time.

History

Air Force Times traces its roots back to the 1940s, when Army Times
Army Times
Army Times is a weekly newspaper serving active, reserve, guard and retired United States Army personnel and their families, providing news, information and analysis as well as community and lifestyle features, educational supplements, and resource guides.Army Times is published by the Gannett...

, founded by Mel Ryder, had reporters covering the U.S. Army Air Corps and U.S. Army Air Forces. With the creation of the U.S. Air Force in 1947 came the birth of Air Force Times as a separate newspaper. Mr. Ryder began his newspaper career on the staff of Stars and Stripes
Stars and Stripes (newspaper)
Stars and Stripes is a news source that operates from inside the United States Department of Defense but is editorially separate from it. The First Amendment protection which Stars and Stripes enjoys is safeguarded by Congress to whom an independent ombudsman, who serves the readers' interests,...

 selling and delivering papers to the troops on the front lines during WWI. In 1921 he joined Willard Kiplinger in forming the newsletter service, the Kiplinger Agency. He sold his interest in the agency in 1933 and began publishing Happy Days, a paper written for members of the Civilian Conservation Corps
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 18–25. A part of the New Deal of President Franklin D...

. His first order was for 400 copies and the first advertiser was GEICO
GEICO
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. Next, Ryder started the publication of Army Times
Army Times
Army Times is a weekly newspaper serving active, reserve, guard and retired United States Army personnel and their families, providing news, information and analysis as well as community and lifestyle features, educational supplements, and resource guides.Army Times is published by the Gannett...

. The first issue was published in 1940 and the company was incorporated the same year.

Subscriptions & Readership

Subscribers

Subscribers total 43,800 per week and account for nearly 80 percent of all Air Force Times readers. Dozens of copies are hand-delivered to the offices of senior leaders inside the Pentagon, including the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Air Force. Also among our subscribers are various members of Congress and their staffers, including liaisons to appropriations, armed services and veterans affairs committees for the Senate and the House. Beyond Capitol Hill, subscribers are found in the State Department, National Reconnaissance Office, White House Communications Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, Congressional Budget Office, Government Accountability Office and more.
Other subscribers include foreign military officers and embassy staffers from:
  • Algeria
    Algeria
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  • Australia
  • Czech Republic
    Czech Republic
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  • China
    China
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  • Finland
    Finland
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  • France
    France
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  • India
    India
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  • Indonesia
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  • Netherlands
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  • New Zealand
    New Zealand
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  • Portugal
    Portugal
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  • Russia
    Russia
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  • Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia
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  • Spain
    Spain
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  • Sweden
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

  • Switzerland
    Switzerland
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  • Uruguay
    Uruguay
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According to Military Times Subscriber Network Study, 2007, Mediamark Research & Intelligence, January 2008:
  • One in four subscribers is a member of the active-duty Air Force
  • Nearly one in 10 subscribers is a member of the Air Force Reserve
  • 92 percent of subscribers read every issue 
  • 65 percent discussed an article or referred someone to it


Newsstands

Newsstand buyers total 11,600 worldwide, each week. Air Force Times is found on approximately 400 newsstands worldwide.

According to Military Times Subscriber Network Study, 2007, Mediamark Research & Intelligence, January 2008:
  • 79 percent of newsstand sales are members of the active-duty Air Force
  • 9 percent are members of the Air Force Reserve 
  • 64 percent discussed an article or referred someone to it
  • 35 percent clip an article for future reference

Journalist Profiles

  • Mel Gray, Managing Editor
  • Becky Iannotta, News Editor
  • Jill Laster, Staff writer
  • Markeshia Ricks, Staff writer
  • David Larter, Staff writer
  • Michelle Tan, San Antonio Bureau Chief

Military Times Service Member of the Year

Each year Military Times honors an "Everyday Hero". Someone with whom you are proud to serve. Someone who's dedication, professionalism and concern for fellow service members and community set a standard for all of us. There is a Marine of the year, Soldier of the year, Sailor of the year, Airman of the year and Coast Guardsman of the year. Each service member is nominated by their peers for Military Times selection. The winners are honored at a formal ceremony on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C.

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