Stories and counter stories about the purported fate of the Washington Times in August 2010 were nearly as much a part of reported developments as news about the newspaper itself. The competing papers and other online sites presenting sometimes conflicting information questioned each other’s sources with unusual vigor in the span of a few days.

A series of back and forth tidbits essentially began with dcrtv.com, a Reston, Virginia-based Web site covering local media in Washington, posting an item about rumors swirling around the potential imminent closure of the Times, which began publishing in 1982. The financially troubled and shrinking paper’s fate has been subject to periodic speculation since staff reductions and management firings and other changes began in late 2009.

Events Escalated With Firings of Times Executives

At that time, three veteran Times executives were dismissed: Publisher Thomas McDevitt, Chief Financial Officer Keith Cooperrider, and Chairman Doug Moon Joo. Announcements then followed about the staff cuts and elimination of the paper’s sports and local news sections as well as discontinuation of the Sunday edition. (The Times stopped reporting its circulation figures in 2008 to the Audit Bureau of Circulation.)

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