 Salisbury Post building. | |
| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Boone Newspapers |
| Publisher | John Carr[1] |
| Editor | Chandler Inions[2] |
| Founded | 1905 |
| Language | American English |
| Headquarters | 131 W. Innes Street Salisbury, North Carolina 28144 |
| Circulation | 18,970 Daily 19,417 Sunday (as of 2011)[3] |
| ISSN | 0747-0738 |
| OCLC number | 10534469 |
| Website | salisburypost salisburypost |
TheSalisbury Post is an American, English-language daily newspaper, founded in 1905, inSalisbury, North Carolina that serves the city and other municipalities inRowan County, as well as the county itself. The publisher of thePost is John Carr and its editor is Chandler Inions. The paper was known as theSalisbury Evening Post (1905–1984).[4]
TheSalisbury Post debuted asThe Salisbury Evening Post on January 9, 1905, and immediately proclaimed itself as "Salisbury's Leading Afternoon Newspaper."[4]
J. B. Doub, E. C. Arey and Gabe M. Royal launched the newspaper at 114½ North Main Street, on the floor over G.A. Jackson's saloon. Joe X. Roueche and Clint N. Brown, former owners and publishers of the competingSalisbury Daily Sun, soon bought thePost and moved the operation across North Main Street to occupy the second floor of the old Meroney Opera House. A fire destroyed the Meroney Opera House on the morning of May 12, 1912, and took every vestige of equipment and record of thePost. But the newspaper kept publishing, as the editorial and mechanical staffs traveled to Spencer and used the office of A.W. Hicks, publisher of a small weekly.
Meanwhile, Roueche and Brown began negotiating the sale of thePost to a group of investors led by James Franklin Hurley, a former owner ofThe Concord Tribune. The change in ownership became official on July 22, 1912, and thePost moved back to Salisbury and began publication in the Shaver Building at 110 W. Innes St. Hurley served as both editor and publisher. He bought out most of the other original investors by 1919. ThePost moved to its present location at 131 W. Innes St. in 1922. The Hurley family owned and operated theSalisbury Post until its sale to Evening Post Publishing Co. of Charleston, S.C., on January 31, 1997.
On February 19, 2014, the sale of theSalisburyPost to Salisbury Newsmedia LLC was completed. Salisbury Newsmedia is part ofNorthport, Alabama-basedBoone Newspapers Inc.[5]
TheSalisbury Post began printing five days a week August 11, 2018.[6] Starting April 30, 2019, printing was moved toWinston-Salem as a result of a partnership withBH Media.[7] On April 12, 2020 thePost announced it would print a newspaper three days a week, withe-editions on Wednesday and Friday.[8] Later that year, thePost agreed to sell its building, moving much of its operation to the first floor.[9] On March 7, 2023, delivery to all subscribers by mail began.[10] This meant a deadline of Friday at 7 P.M. for the Sunday paper, in order for delivery to take place on Saturday.[11]
On February 19, 2014, the sale of theSalisbury Post to Salisbury Newsmedia LLC was completed. Salisbury Newsmedia is part of Alabama-basedBoone Newspapers Inc.[5]
TheSalisbury Post also publishesSalisbury the Magazine, a perfect-bound, 84-page magazine with featured content of Salisbury and Rowan County. Maggie Blackwell is the editor.
Editors who held the position the longest were Spencer Murphy (1936 to 1964) and Elizabeth Cook (1993 to 2018).[12] Paris Goodnight became editor in March 2022.[13] Chandler Inions became editor in October 2023, replacing Elisabeth Strillacci, who retired.[2]