Since our founding in 1984, The Martha’s Vineyard Times has become the Island’s most widely read newspaper for year-round Islanders, long-term summer residents and Vineyard visitors, with an average circulation of approximately 15,000 copies each week. Last year The Times’ circulation was more than three times greater on-Island, and two times greater overall, than that of the Vineyard Gazette, the community’s other weekly newspaper. The Times is generally acknowledged as the community newspaper for Martha’s Vineyard.

The Times’ indispensability results from our unusual publishing and business model. We provide year-round and seasonal Islanders with free postal customer circulation of our professional, responsible award-winning community newspaper, placing complete news and calendar information in front of everyone on Martha’s Vineyard, every week, with no barriers to readership. At the same time, we believe that a useful and vital community newspaper needs to be successfully immersed in the Vineyard’s business life, for-profit and not-for-profit alike, and our dominant circulation means we deliver for our advertisers, who we value as neighbors and constituents, and not simply as customers.