'' Phoenix New Times '' is a free digital and print media company based in Phoenix , Arizona . '' New Times '' publishes daily online coverage of local news , restaurants , music and arts , as well as longform narrative journalism . A weekly print issue circulates every Thursday . The company has been owned by Voice Media Group since January 2013 , when a group of senior executives bought out the founding owners . Stuart Warner was named editor of '' New Times '' in January 2017 . The paper was founded in 1970 by a group of students at Arizona State University , led by Frank Fiore , Karen Lofgren , Michael Lacey , Bruce Stasium , Nick Stupey , Gayle Pyfrom , Hal Smith , and later , Jim Larkin , as a counterculture response to the Kent State shootings in the spring of that year . Gary Brennan played a role in its creation . According to the 20th Anniversary issue of the '' New Times '' , published on May 2 , 1990 , Fiore suggested that the anti-war crowd put out its own paper . The first summer issues were called the '' Arizona Times '' and assembled in the staff 's La Crescenta apartments across from ASU . The '' Arizona Times '' was renamed the '' New Times '' as the first college issue went to press in September 1970
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