Real Times

Real Times Media LLC
Company typePrivate
FoundedJanuary 2003 (2003-01)
HeadquartersBuhl Building, Suite 1300, 535 Griswold Street,
Detroit, Michigan 48226, United States
Area served
Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Pittsburgh metro areas
ProductsWeekly newspapers and other publications catering to the African-American community
WebsiteRealTimesMedia.com

Real Times Media LLC is the owner and publisher of the Chicago Defender, the largest and most influential African American weekly newspaper, as well as five other regional weeklies in the eastern and Midwestern United States. Its headquarters are in Midtown Detroit.

The company was founded in January 2003 by a consortium of Chicago and Detroit business leaders to take over the assets of Sengstacke Enterprises Inc., the longtime owner of five of the papers.