The Mount Airy News

The Mount Airy News is a six-day-a-week newspaper published in Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States. It was established in 1880.[3] The News has a circulation of 9,263 according to The Park Library's list of North Carolina newspapers. It is one of several newspapers serving Surry County, along with The Tribune in Elkin and The Pilot of Pilot Mountain.

The Mount Airy News
The July 19, 2009 front page of The Mount Airy News
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Adams Publishing Group
PublisherSandra Hurley [1]
EditorJohn Peters[1]
Founded1880
LanguageAmerican English
Headquarters319 N. Renfro Street
Mount Airy, North Carolina 27030  United States
CityMount Airy
CountryUnited States
Circulation9,263[2]
OCLC number24943682
Websitewww.mtairynews.com

History

The News, The Tribune, and The Pilot all have the same corporate parent. In June 2007, both The News and The Tribune were part of a sale from Mid-South Management Co., Inc. to Heartland Publications, LLC of Connecticut.[4]

Mount Airy had two newspapers until around 1980, when the weekly Mount Airy Times was bought by the News. In 2007, the city again had two papers with The Messenger and The Mount Airy News. However, after attempting several different publication schedules, The Messenger closed less than three years later, shutting its doors in 2010.

The Mount Airy News was published seven days a week. On April 9, 2012, The News ceased publication of its Monday edition. The paper now publishes Tuesday through Sunday.

In 2012 Versa Capital Management merged Heartland Publications, Ohio Community Media, the former Freedom papers it had acquired, and Impressions Media into a new company, Civitas Media.[5] Civitas Media sold its properties in the Carolinas to Champion Media in 2017.[6] Later in 2017, Champion Media sold its Mount Airy area newspapers to Adams Publishing Group.[7][8][9][10]

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See also

References

  1. "Mount Airy News". ncpress.com. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
  2. The Park Library's list of North Carolina newspapers
  3. "The Mount Airy news". Library of Congress. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
  4. "Yadkin, Surry, Stokes newspapers are bought". Winston-Salem Journal. Retrieved June 3, 2007.
  5. Business Wire, Versa Capital Announces the Formation of Civitas Media, LLC, retrieved April 10, 2017
  6. "Quarterly Updates - 2nd Quarter 2017". Dirks, Van Essen & Murray. 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2017-10-28.
  7. Adams Publishing Group acquires Mount Airy Group from Champion Media
  8. "Mount Airy News". mtairynews.com. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
  9. "North Carolina Newspaper Project". statelibrary.dcr.state.nc. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
  10. "The Mount Airy News, issues from 1917-1929". digitalnc.org. Retrieved January 11, 2020.


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