Type | Daily newspaper |
---|---|
Owner(s) | Champion Media |
Founder(s) | W.S. McDiamid [1] |
Publisher | Denise Ward [2] |
Editor | Donnie Douglas [2] |
Sports editor | Jonathan Bym |
Founded | 1870[1] |
Headquarters | 2175 N. Roberts Ave., Lumberton, North Carolina, US |
Circulation | 60,000 |
ISSN | 2474-2236 |
OCLC number | 10467669 |
Website |
robesonian |
The Robesonian is a newspaper published in Lumberton, North Carolina, Tuesday through Friday afternoon and Saturday and Sunday morning. [3]
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]
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]
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Champion Media |
Founder(s) | W.S. McDiamid [1] |
Publisher | Denise Ward [2] |
Editor | Donnie Douglas [2] |
Sports editor | Jonathan Bym |
Founded | 1870[1] |
Headquarters | 2175 N. Roberts Ave., Lumberton, North Carolina, US |
Circulation | 60,000 |
ISSN | 2474-2236 |
OCLC number | 10467669 |
Website |
robesonian |
The Robesonian is a newspaper published in Lumberton, North Carolina, Tuesday through Friday afternoon and Saturday and Sunday morning. [3]
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]
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]
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