| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Paxton Media Group |
| Founded | 1882 |
| Language | American English |
| Headquarters | 2103 N. Queen St. Kinston,North Carolina |
| Circulation | 4,002 (as of 2018)[1] |
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| OCLC number | 22960616 |
| Website | kinston |
The Free Press is an American, English language daily newspaper based inKinston,Lenoir County, North Carolina. It has served the city of Kinston and Lenoir County, North Carolina since 1882.The Free Press was owned byFreedom Communications until 2012, when Freedom sold its Florida and North Carolina papers toHalifax Media Group. In November 2014, Halifax announced the sale of The Free Press and its other properties toNew Media Investment Group Inc. In 2015, Halifax was acquired byNew Media Investment Group, which was merged intoGannett in 2019.[2]
It was abroadsheet-format daily until June 1, 2009, when it and two sister dailies, theNew Bern, North CarolinaSun Journal and theJacksonville, North CarolinaDaily News converted to aBerliner-style format. Since the format change all three papers are laid out and are published in Jacksonville.
The Free Press (and its sister publications in New Bern and Jacksonville) returned to the broadsheet format on May 1, 2014, after readers requested the change.
TheFree Press is available on the Internet ((registration required) for full access) and on Facebook for dissemination of news and interaction with readers.[3]"Kinston Free Press".kinston.enctoday.com. RetrievedJanuary 16, 2020.
TheFree Press was founded in 1882 byJosephus and his brother Charles Daniels. The newspaper was an active supporter ofGrover Cleveland and the Democratic party. The name has changed several times since then.[4][5]
In November 2022Paxton Media Group acquired The Free Press and five other North Carolina newspapers fromGannett Co., Inc.[6]
TheFree Press is a member of theNorth Carolina Press Association. TheFree Press won 47 North Carolina Press Association awards from 2010 to 2012, the most in a three-year period in the paper's history. It was named the top newspaper in North Carolina's Class D (Daily, 12,000-and-under) in 2014.[7]