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About Phoenix New Times & Why a DA 70 Feature Matters
Phoenix New Times is an established regional title covering Phoenix New and its wider region — local news, business, public affairs and the stories that matter to the people it serves. For brands seeking credible regional visibility — and authority that search engines respect — an established news title like this is a valuable place to be seen.
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Phoenix New Times from a London desk: an alt-weekly that does not behave like a newspaper
Phoenix New Times began in September 1970, started by Arizona State University students as a counterculture answer to the Kent State shootings. It is a free alternative newsweekly. Print appears on Thursdays, the site publishes daily, and the title now sits inside Voice Media Group, the company senior executives formed when they bought the alt-weekly chain from its founders. Its reputation was built on adversarial reporting, including a long campaign against the Maricopa County sheriff’s office that saw two of its founders arrested and the county eventually pay out. Assume an irreverent house voice with no patience for corporate language. The masthead runs news, music, food and drink, arts, cannabis and the annual Best of Phoenix issue.
Arizona ignores the clock change
Arizona does not observe daylight saving. It sits on Mountain Standard Time all year, so the gap from Britain is eight hours from late March until late October and seven hours after that. British teams usually diarise Phoenix as if it behaved like Denver and get the timing wrong twice a year. Early afternoon your time reaches a Phoenix writer before lunch.
Weekly print, daily web
The paper comes out on Thursdays and the website never stops. Those are two different rhythms. Anything tied to a date wants to be in front of an editor early in the week if it has any hope of print placement, whereas a web piece can move within hours. Say plainly which one you are aiming at.
Heat inverts the local calendar
Phoenix summers hold above 40C for weeks and outdoor life largely stops. The events season effectively runs October to April, overlapping spring training in the Cactus League parks and the peak Scottsdale resort months. A launch scheduled for July, planned from a British summer, arrives when the city has emptied out and nobody is going anywhere.
Chips rewrote the local story
The fabs going up in north Phoenix, Intel’s campus at Chandler and the supplier and construction ring around them dominate business coverage in the Valley. Water supply, power demand, housing costs and labour shortages all hang off that build-out. If your company touches semiconductors, construction, logistics or utilities, you are standing in the middle of the biggest running story here.
They write about you
An alt-weekly’s contract with its readers is scepticism. A New Times writer may take your announcement and use it to examine your industry, your landlord, your water use or your labour practices. That is a fair trade for the attention. If your board would panic at a piece that questions the company, this is the wrong publication to court.
Drop the press-release register
Phrases like market-leading, bespoke and proud to announce read as noise to this newsroom. Write in plain American English, give the writer a person with opinions rather than an approved quote, and name the Phoenix neighbourhood, venue or street involved. Tempe, Mesa, Glendale and Scottsdale are separate cities, and locals notice when you blur them.
The sections a New Times story actually lands in
This is a compact newsroom with clearly defined patches and strong opinions about each of them. Identify the right writer before you draft anything, because a misdirected message here is not politely passed along to a colleague.
- News and investigations, covering Maricopa County politics, immigration and the border, policing, housing costs, water policy and the sharp end of extreme heat
- Music, covering the Valley’s venues, festivals, touring acts and local scenes, written by people who go to shows rather than by people summarising a press pack
- Food and drink, covering restaurant openings and closures, chefs, bars, breweries and the ordinary neighbourhood places readers argue about most
- Arts and culture, covering galleries, theatre, museums, film screenings and the visual scene across Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa and Scottsdale
- Cannabis, a standing beat since Arizona legalised adult use, covering dispensaries, regulation, products and the business behind them
- Best of Phoenix and things to do, the annual awards issue plus the running guides to weekends, events and where to take visitors
How British pitches die at an alt-weekly
Most failures here are failures of register rather than of substance. A pitch written for a trade magazine and posted to an alternative newsweekly announces immediately that nobody involved has read the publication.
- Corporate voice. Sentences built from synergies, solutions and proud partnerships get binned on sight. The writers here mock that language in print, so do not hand them a fresh sample of it.
- No Valley presence. A British firm with no address, no staff, no venue and no Arizona customer has nothing for a paper whose entire beat is this metro area and its politics.
- Treating it as a listings service. Sending a diary entry with no story attached, no photography and no person to interview gives an editor nothing to publish and no reason to reply.
- Demanding copy approval. Asking to see the piece before publication, or to have quotes signed off by a communications team, ends the conversation immediately and permanently.
- A summer launch. Nothing outdoors works in Phoenix in July or August. Building a campaign around a British summer schedule means launching into a city that has gone quiet.
Not sure which of these applies to your story? Send it to ceo@unitedpress.uk and we will tell you straight.
Alt-weekly questions we get asked
Is Phoenix New Times a newspaper or a website?
Both, with different clocks. The free print edition comes out weekly on Thursdays and is picked up around the Valley, while the website publishes throughout the day. The print product suits anything with a lead time and a strong image; the website suits anything reactive. Decide which you want before you make contact, and say so in your first line.
Why would a British company be newsworthy in Phoenix at all?
Usually because of the semiconductor build-out and its supply chain, aerospace and defence engineering, data centres, healthcare, hospitality and resorts, or the cannabis industry. Arizona State University also draws research and education partnerships. Whichever route brought you here, put the Arizona footprint in the first sentence, because without one there is no story for this title to tell.
How does the tone differ from a daily paper?
An alternative newsweekly writes with a voice and a point of view. It is comfortable being rude, funny and openly sceptical, and it prizes long investigative work alongside short irreverent pieces. A daily aims at neutrality; New Times does not. Pitch it accordingly, with a real character to interview and a willingness to be questioned.
When should we send from the UK?
Aim for the start of the Phoenix working day, which means roughly one to four in the afternoon British time. Remember Arizona stays on Mountain Standard Time all year, so recalculate in late March and late October. Early in the week is better than late if you want any chance of the Thursday print edition.
What British proof will a Phoenix writer bother to check?
Anything they can open in a browser and understand in ten seconds. Companies House filings, Office for National Statistics figures and a named UK trade body all work, provided you explain what each one is in a short clause. Convert money to dollars, keep temperatures in Fahrenheit, and never use a superlative you cannot source.
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