The Robesonian

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The Robesonian
The Robesonian masthead.png
The Robesonian nameplate c. 1926
TypeDaily newspaper
Owner(s)Champion Media
Founder(s)W.S. McDiamid [1]
PublisherDenise Ward [2]
EditorDavid Kennard [2]
Sports editorChris Stiles
Founded1870 (1870) [1]
Headquarters2175 N. Roberts Ave., Lumberton, North Carolina, US
Circulation 60,000
ISSN 2474-2236
OCLC number 10467669
Website robesonian.com

The Robesonian is a newspaper published in Lumberton, North Carolina, Tuesday through Friday afternoon and Saturday and Sunday morning. [3]

Contents

The Robesonian traces its heritage back to 1870, [4] when it was established by W.S. McDiamid, a Baptist preacher. [5] The Robesonian was previously owned by Heartland Publications. In 2012 Versa Capital Management merged Heartland Publications, Ohio Community Media, the former Freedom papers it had acquired, and Impressions Media into a new company, Civitas Media. [6] Civitas Media sold its properties in the Carolinas to Champion Media in 2017. [7]

Notable events

The newspaper attracted national attention when on February 1, 1988, when two Native Americans entered the newspaper's offices armed [8] and took 20 hostages. [9] The stand-off lasted ten hours; Timothy Jacobs and Eddie Hatcher [10] hoped to attract attention to the plight of American Indians, and later, after their arrest, had a local civil rights attorney deliver a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev in anticipation of a summit between Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev. [11]

The newspaper attracted more attention in August, 2018, when it stopped providing its 8-page Sunday color comics section. [12] An editorial on July 28, 2018 entitled "Trump’s newsprint tariffs force not-so-funny decision" blame the cost of newsprint from Canada, a target "in Trump's Tariff Wars." [13]

The Robesonian is a member of the North Carolina Press Association. [2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "About Us". Archived from the original on 24 April 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "The Robesonian". NC Press Association. Archived from the original on January 5, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
  3. ↑ "The Robesonian". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
  4. ↑ "The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-Current". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 2024-08-07. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  5. ↑ "About Us". Robesonian. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
  6. ↑ Business Wire (12 September 2012), Versa Capital Announces the Formation of Civitas Media, LLC , retrieved April 10, 2017{{citation}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  7. ↑ "Quarterly Updates - 2nd Quarter 2017". Dirks, Van Essen & Murray. 2017-06-30. Archived from the original on 2017-10-29. Retrieved 2017-10-28.
  8. ↑ "Indians Hope Hostage-Taking Delivers More Than Attention". The Miami Herald . 8 February 1988. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  9. ↑ "Guilty Plea in Kidnap". Newsday . 5 May 1989. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  10. ↑ "Lumberton, Robesonian Back To Normal". The Fayetteville Observer . 3 February 1988. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  11. ↑ "Robeson Indians Send Protest to Gorbachev". The Fayetteville Observer . 3 April 1988. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  12. ↑ Martinez, Rebecca (August 2018). "Trump's Paper Tariff's Stifle The Sunday Robesonian". www.wunc.org. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
  13. ↑ Robesonian Editorial Board (2018-07-28). "Trump's newsprint tariffs force not-so-funny decision". Robesonian. Archived from the original on 2019-02-07. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
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