Marine Corps Times

Marine Corps Times

Marine Corps Times cover 19 July 2010
Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner(s)	Sightline Media Group
Publisher	Michael Reinstein
Founded	1999
Headquarters	6883 Commercial Drive, Springfield, Virginia, United States
Circulation	36,385 (June 2013)
ISSN	1522-0869
OCLC number	40058477
Website	marinecorpstimes.com

Marine Corps Times (ISSN 1522-0869) is a weekly newspaper serving active, reserve and retired United States Marine Corps personnel and their families, providing news, information and analysis as well as community and lifestyle features, educational supplements, and resource guides.

Marine Corps Times is published by the Sightline Media Group, which is a part of TEGNA Digital, which itself is owned by TEGNA, Inc. The group was called the Army Times Publishing Company until 1997, when it was sold to Gannett and renamed Gannett Government Media. In 2015, it was spun off into one of the digital properties of TEGNA, and renamed Sightline. In March 2016, TEGNA sold Sightline Media Group to Regent Companies, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm controlled by investor Michael Reinstein.

Marine Corps Times writer C. Mark Brinkley was among the first journalists to embed with ground troops in Afghanistan in November 2001 during Operation Swift Freedom, which was the Pentagon's first opportunity to Embed Journalists.Marine Corps Times and Brinkley were also responsible for exposing the fabricated military record claimed by Joshua Adam Garcia, a contestant on Food Network's 2007 season of "The Next Food Network Star," resulting in Garcia's resignation from the cooking competition reality show.

In November 2010, senior writer Dan Lamothe broke the news that the Marine Corps had recommended former Cpl. Dakota Meyer for the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for valor, for bravery in Afghanistan in September 2009. Meyer's case was approved in July 2011, making him the first living Marine to receive the medal since the Vietnam War.