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| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | USA Today Co. |
| Editor | Karen Chávez, Executive Editor[1] |
| Founded | 1870 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 1 Haywood Street Asheville, North Carolina 28801  United States |
| Circulation | 26,347 Daily 36,208 Sunday (as of 2018)[2] |
| ISSN | 1060-3255 |
| OCLC number | 24097281 |
| Website | citizen-times |
TheAsheville Citizen-Times is a dailynewspaper ofAsheville, North Carolina. It was formed in 1991 as a result of a merger of the morningAsheville Citizen and the afternoonAsheville Times. It is owned byUSA Today Co.[3]
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Founded in 1870 as a weekly, theNorth Carolina Citizen[4] became a daily newspaper in 1885. WritersThomas Wolfe,O. Henry, both buried in Asheville, andF. Scott Fitzgerald, a frequent visitor to Asheville, frequently could be found in the newsroom in earlier days. In 1930 theCitizen came under common ownership with theTimes, which was first established in 1896 as theAsheville Gazette. The latter paper merged with a short-lived rival, theAsheville Evening News, to form theAsheville Gazette-News and was renamedThe Asheville Times by new owner Charles A. Webb.[5]
TheCitizen was in a formerYMCA and the press was in the swimming pool. TheTimes was in theJackson Building. TheCitizen had to leave shortly afterChristmas 1938 and publisher D. Hiden Ramsey asked Tony Lord to design a new building, which went up in 15 months at 14O. Henry Avenue and also housed theTimes. Charles Webb became president of both papers and the local radio station located on top of the building.[6]
In 1954, the Citizen-Times Publishing Company which owned the newspapers and radio stationWWNC was purchased by theGreenville News-Piedmont Company. In 1968 Greenville News-Piedmont merged with Southern Broadcasting Corporation to formMultimedia.[5]
In 1986, $12 million was invested in offsetprinting presses[citation needed] and a new 42,000-square-foot (3,900 m2)[7] production building in nearbyEnka, with composed pages transmitted electronically from the downtown Asheville building located nine miles (14 km) away.[citation needed] On June 28, 1991, the finalAsheville Times was published. From that time, theCitizen and theTimes were called theAsheville Citizen-Times seven days a week.[8]
In 1995, Multimedia was acquired byGannett.[9] In April 1997, theCitizen-Times became the first daily newspaper in Western North Carolina to launch awebsite; the site now receives tens of thousands of hits a day.
In January 2009, although the paper spent $3.5 million more two years earlier,[7] the press was shut down and shortly after sold off as scrap metal.[citation needed] The building was sold and theCitizen-Times moved printing toGreenville, South Carolina, and laterGastonia, North Carolina.[7]
Gannett sold the Citizen-Times building in 2018. On March 31, 2024, the lease expired and the newspaper moved[10] to theco-working space called The Collider in theWells Fargo building[11] at 1 Haywood Street.[12]
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