Our Story
Phoenix New Times is an independent local newspaper and website whose small but scrappy staff of journalists have covered the Arizona stories that other media outlets ignored since 1970.
From the day we were founded,
Phoenix New Times has been free to our readers. We remain dedicated to providing our reported local journalism to everyone at no charge, regardless of their financial status.
How can we do it? We ve always relied on advertisers to generate the revenues that make our rent and pay our staff. Most of those advertisers were local mom n pops, and their support meant we were able to give our newspapers away at no charge. We ve never put up an online paywall, either.