Asheville Daily Planet

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Asheville Daily Planet
Type Bi-weekly newspaper
Owner(s)Star Fleet Communications, Inc.
Founder(s)John North
PublisherJohn North
Founded2004
Headquarters Asheville, North Carolina
Country United States
Website ashevilledailyplanet.com

The Asheville Daily Planet is a bi-weekly alternative newspaper serving Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina. The newspaper was named after the fictional Daily Planet newspaper in the Superman universe. [1]

In spite of its name, it has never been a daily newspaper. On December 1, 2004, it began publishing as a weekly newspaper. Due to economic conditions, it began publishing monthly in July 2008. [2]

Footnotes

  1. In an article in the Mountain Xpress, John North, publisher of the Asheville Daily Planet, is quoted as saying that it would be "kind of a smashing name, because everybody reads Superman comics."
  2. Planet to continue as monthly paper