Asheville Citizen-Times
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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.[1]
History
Founded in 1870 as a weekly, the North Carolina Citizen[2] 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.[3]
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.[4]
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.[3]
In 1986, $12 million was invested in offset printing presses and a new Template:Convert production building in nearby Enka, with composed pages transmitted electronically from the downtown Asheville building located Template:Convert away.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
On June 28, 1991, the final Asheville Times was published. From that time, the Citizen and the Times were called the Asheville Citizen-Times seven days a week.[5]
In 1995, Multimedia was acquired by Gannett.[6] 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[7] to the co-working space called The Collider in the Wells Fargo building[8] at 1 Haywood Street.[9]
See also
References
External links
- Citizen-Times official site
- Official mobile website
- Asheville Citizen-Times article on AshevilleNow.com
- Other Newspapers and Publications in Asheville
- Issues of the Asheville Citizen from 1885-1889, and from 1890-1900 from the Library of Congress.
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