Times Community Media (TCM) is a group of contiguous weeklies in Northern Virginia, USA, and the Piedmont, USA.
Based in Herndon, Virginia, the newspaper group provides local news in the Virginia suburbs outside Washington, D.C. With more than 200 years of local newspaper history, the company grew by focusing on its core mission of local news. As of 2008, the Times Community Newspapers 240,000 households in Northern Virginia. TCM is a co-owner of the Washington Suburban Press Network, which is also a group of regional community newspapers.
In 1962, the company was founded by Arthur W. Arundel. Arundel purchased the 165-year-old Loudoun Times-Mirror in Leesburg in 1963. The company has grown ever since, and now owns the following newspapers:
Community Newspapers Inc. (CNI) is a subsidiary of Journal Communications based in New Berlin, Wisconsin. It publishes eight weekly newspapers in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. CNI has about 110 full-time employees and about 30 part-time employees.
Most of the CNI newspapers were not started by their current owner and have traded owners several times in their history. The Wauwatosa News-Times (now Wauwatosa NOW) dates back to March 1899, the West Allis Star (now Greenfield-West Allis NOW) was first published on December 14, 1916, and the Whitefish Bay Herald (now North Shore NOW) first issue was released on June 12, 1930.