El Paso Times
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The El Paso Times is the English-language newspaper for the U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 city of El Paso, Texas
El Paso, Texas
El Paso, is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, and lies in far West Texas. In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 649,121. It is the sixth largest city in Texas and the 19th largest city in the United States...

. The paper was founded in 1881 by Marcellus Washington Carrico. It originally started out as a weekly but within a year's time, it became the daily newspaper for the frontier
Frontier
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 town.

The newspaper has a daily circulation of 73,172 and 88,410 on Sundays. In December 2005, Gannett became a minority partner in the El Paso Times, handing the majority of the partnership and management to Denver-based MediaNews.

The paper is currently the only English-language daily in El Paso, but often competes with the Spanish-language El Diario de El Paso
El Diario de El Paso
The El Diario de El Paso is the primary Spanish-language newspaper for the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas. The paper was founded on May 16, 2005 by El Diario de Juárez. It originally started out as a Mexican newspaper circulated throughout Ciudad Juárez under the name Diario de Juárez...

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an offshoot of El Diario de Juárez.

Because of declining newspaper circulations nationwide, the El Paso Times has recently expanded its online capabilities and introduced continuous online updates.

Sections

The El Paso Times prints news in several sections:

•A-section: all-local news cover page, with national, Mexico and international news in the inside pages.

•Borderland: the metro news page has an all-local cover page as well as neighborhood, New Mexico and Texas news.

•Sports: local and national sports, with an emphasis in high-school and UTEP coverage.

•Business: local and national business news.

•Living: local and national feature stories including rotating sections covering seniors, religion, pop culture, the arts, books, health, home decor, entertainment news, local music and fashion.

•Tiempo: weekly entertainment guide published on Fridays. It includes concerts, movies, galleries, restaurant reviews and other entertainment related stories.

•Hot Ticket: published every Wednesday.

Other publications

The El Paso Times publishes several other weekly, biweekly and monthly publications.

•El Paso y Más: bi-weekly Spanish news coverage.

•TV y Más: weekly television guide and Spanish entertainment magazine.

•Cars & Trucks: weekly auto trader guide.

Reporters

The Times, as the paper is known in the city, has reporters covering several beats:

Zahira Torres, state politics

Marty Schladen, City/county government

Caylor Ballinger, Education

Daniel Borunda, night cops

Cindy Ramirez, El Paso's West Side and Central

Chris Roberts, health/environment

Diana Washington-Valdez, growth and transportation

Alejandro Martinez-Cabrera, Juárez news

Adriana M. Chávez, day cops/courts

Aileen Flores (Hot Tamale), El Paso's Lower Valley

Ramon Renteria, features/enterprise

Alex Hinojosa, El Paso's East Side

Aaron Bracamontes, El Paso's Northeast

David Burge, Fort Bliss

Vic Kolenc, business

Maria Cortes Gonzalez, features

Victor Martinez, features

Doug Pullen, arts/entertainment

Felix Chavez, high school sports

Bill Knight, UTEP basketball

Evan Mohl, high school sports

Bret Bloomquist, UTEP football

Photographers

Ruben Ramirez, editor

Mark Lambie

Rudy Gutierrez

Victor Calzada

Vanessa M. Feldman

External links

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