The Courier-Tribune

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The Courier-Tribune
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Paxton Media Group
PublisherPaul Mauney
General managerTodd Benz
Founded1876
Language American English
Headquarters500 Sunset Ave.
Asheboro, North Carolina
Circulation 5,789(as of 2018) [1]
OCLC number 13168530
Website courier-tribune.com

The Courier-Tribune is the daily newspaper of Asheboro, North Carolina and the surrounding county of Randolph County, North Carolina. It has been published daily, except Saturday, since 1978. [2] [3] [4]

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History

The Courier-Tribune is one of the 10 oldest newspapers published in North Carolina, tracing its roots back to 1876 and Marmaduke Swaim Robins Randolph Regulator newspaper. [5] It was named the Courier Tribune in 1940 in the merger of Courier (19301940) and Randolph Tribune (19241940). [6] [7]

In November of 2022 Paxton Media Group acquired The Courier-Tribune and five other North Carolina newspapers from Gannett Co., Inc. [8]

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  8. Northam, Mitchell (9 December 2022). "Kentucky-based Paxton Media Group buys six North Carolina newspapers from Gannett" . Retrieved 9 December 2022.

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