Asheville Citizen-Times

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TypeDaily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Gannett
EditorKaren Chávez, Executive Editor [1]
Founded1870
Language English
Headquarters1 Haywood Street
Asheville, North Carolina 28801 Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Circulation 26,347 Daily
36,208 Sunday(as of 2018) [2]
ISSN 1060-3255
OCLC number 24097281
Website citizen-times.com

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]

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History

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Exterior of the headquarters, 2012

Founded in 1870 as a weekly, the North Carolina Citizen [4] became a daily newspaper in 1885. Writers Thomas Wolfe, O. Henry, both buried in Asheville, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, a frequent 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. [5]

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. [6]

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. [5]

In 1986, $12 million was invested in offset printing presses and a new 44,000-square-foot (4,100 m2) 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. [7] 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.

Gannett sold the Citizen-Times building in 2018. On March 31, 2024, the lease expired and the newspaper moved [8] to the co-working space called The Collider in the Wells Fargo building [9] at 1 Haywood Street. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Asheville Citizen Times website. 2020.
  2. ↑ Editor & Publisher Newspaper DataBook. 2018. p. I-197.
  3. ↑ "Member Directory". North Carolina Press Association. Archived from the original on March 20, 2017. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
  4. ↑ Honosky, Sarah (February 18, 2024). "Region's history forever preserved: The Citizen Times donates prized photo collection from 1870-2000 to UNC Asheville's Ramsey Library". Asheville Citizen-Times.
  5. 1 2 Multimedia, Inc. History
  6. ↑ Neufeld, Rob (October 29, 2017). "Visiting Our Past: Assessing Asheville Architecture". Asheville Citizen-Times. Retrieved October 30, 2017.
  7. ↑ Gannett, Multimedia announce merger agreement Archived December 28, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ Chávez, Karen (March 8, 2024). "Asheville Citizen Times to relocate from downtown building after 85 years; paper continues". Asheville Citizen-Times.
  9. ↑ Honosky, Sarah (April 15, 2024). "Answer Woman: Where will Asheville Citizen Times staff relocate to?". Asheville Citizen-Times.
  10. ↑ "The Collider Asheville" . Retrieved July 5, 2024.

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