Asheville Citizen-Times
Newspaper published in Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Gannett |
Editor | Jewell Walston, Executive Editor [1] |
Founded | 1870 |
Language | English |
Headquarters |
14
O. Henry
Ave.
Asheville, North Carolina 28801 ![]() |
Circulation |
26,347 Daily
36,208 Sunday [2] |
ISSN | 1060-3255 |
Website |
www
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The Asheville Citizen-Times is a daily newspaper of Asheville, North Carolina . It was formed in 1991 as a result of a merger of the morning Asheville Citizen and the afternoon Asheville Times . It is owned by Gannett . [3]
History
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Founded in 1870 as a weekly, the Citizen became a daily newspaper in 1885. Writers Thomas Wolfe , O. Henry , both buried in Asheville, and F. Scott Fitzgerald , a common visitor to Asheville, frequently could be found in the newsroom in earlier days. In 1930 the Citizen came under common ownership with the Times , which was first established in 1896 as the Asheville Gazette . The latter paper merged with a short-lived rival, the Asheville Evening News , to form the Asheville Gazette-News and was renamed The Asheville Times by new owner Charles A. Webb. [4]
The Citizen was in a former YMCA and the press was in the swimming pool. The Times was in the Jackson Building . The Citizen had to leave shortly after Christmas 1938 and publisher D. Hiden Ramsey asked Tony Lord to design a new building, which went up in 15 months at 14 O. Henry Avenue and also housed the Times . Charles Webb became president of both papers and the local radio station located on top of the building. [5]
In 1954, the Citizen-Times Publishing Company which owned the newspapers and radio station WWNC was purchased by the Greenville News-Piedmont Company . In 1968 Greenville News-Piedmont merged with Southern Broadcasting Corporation to form Multimedia . [4]
In 1986, $12 million was invested in offset printing presses and a new 44,000-square-foot (4,100 m 2 ) production building in nearby Enka , with composed pages transmitted electronically from the downtown Asheville building located nine miles (14 km) away. In 1995, Multimedia was acquired by Gannett . [6] In April 1997, the Citizen-Times became the first daily newspaper in Western North Carolina to launch a website ; the site now receives tens of thousands of hits a day.
In Jan 2009, the press was shut down and shortly after sold off as scrap metal. Now the Citizen-Times is printed in Greenville, South Carolina , alongside The Greenville News and shipped to a distribution center.
See also
References
- ↑ Asheville Citizen Times website . 2020.
- ↑ Editor & Publisher Newspaper DataBook . 2018. p. I-197.
- ↑ "Member Directory" . North Carolina Press Association. Archived from the original on March 20, 2017 . Retrieved March 20, 2017 .
- 1 2 Multimedia, Inc. History
- ↑ Neufeld, Rob (October 29, 2017). "Visiting Our Past: Assessing Asheville Architecture" . Asheville Citizen-Times . Retrieved October 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Gannett, Multimedia announce merger agreement Archived December 28, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Citizen-Times official site
- Official mobile website
- Asheville Citizen-Times article on AshevilleNow.com
- Other Newspapers and Publications in Asheville
- Issues of the Asheville Citizen from 1885-1889 , and from 1890-1900 from the Library of Congress.