The New Bedford Standard-Times

The Standard-Times

The April 6, 2007 front page of The Standard-Times
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Local Media Group
Publisher	Peter Meyer
Editor	Beth Perdue
Founded	February 4, 1850, as Daily Evening Standard
Headquarters	25 Elm Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts 02740, United States
Circulation	21,582 daily 23,070 Sundays in 2012
ISSN	0745-3574
Website	SouthCoastToday.com

The Standard-Times (and Sunday Standard-Times), based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is the larger of two daily newspapers covering the South Coast of Massachusetts, along with The Herald News of Fall River.

Like the Cape Cod Times, which is the only larger newspaper in Southeastern Massachusetts, The Standard-Times is owned by Local Media Group. Local Media Group is a subsidiary of Newcastle Investment Corp., an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group. Together with the weekly newspapers of Hathaway Publishing, which also cover Fall River and several other suburban towns, The Standard-Times is part of Local Media Group's South Coast Media Group.

The Standard-Times' coverage area includes Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Fall River, Freetown, Lakeville, Marion, Mattapoisett, New Bedford, Rochester, Wareham, and Westport, Massachusetts.

The Standard-Times' main daily competitor is The Herald News of Fall River. Other rivals include The Boston Globe, the Taunton Daily Gazette and the Providence Journal.