Asheville Citizen-Times

The Asheville Citizen - Times is a major daily newspaper published from Asheville, North Carolina. It was created in 1991 as a result of the merger of the morning newspaper Asheville Citizen and the afternoon newspaper Asheville Times. It belongs to the media group Gannett.

History

In 1870, the Citizen was founded as a weekly newspaper and was converted into a daily newspaper in 1885. The authors Thomas Wolfe, O. Henry, both buried in Asheville, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, a frequent visitor to the city of Asheville, were more frequently encountered in the newsroom in the early days of the newspaper. Since 1930, belonged to the Citizen and the Times, which was first founded in 1896 as Asheville Gazette, the same owner. The Asheville Gazette merged with a short-lived rival, derAsheville Evening News, and called himself since Asheville Gazette -News. It was later renamed by the new owner Charles A. Webb in The Asheville Times. 1986 was invested near Enka twelve million dollars in offset presses and a new, an area of ​​4100 square-meter production building, where the building of 14 km from the compiled in downtown Asheville electronic pages transmitted. In April 1997 the Citizen - Times was the first newspaper in western North Carolina, which called into being a website that currently receives tens of thousands of hits per day. In February 2011, the online editors changed the format of the website, so that the current item only can be accessed by subscribers of the paper edition and only the items from the previous day are visible as current articles on the Internet for other readers. Other changes involved the blockade of numerous online comments.

2009, the printing press was shut down and sold as scrap metal. Since then, the Citizen - Times is printed along with The Greenville News in Greenville, South Carolina and sent to a distribution center.