The Courier-Times
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
EditorKelly Snow
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters111 N. Main St, Roxboro, North Carolina  United States
Websitepersoncountylife.com

The Courier-Times is a once-a-week newspaper based in Roxboro, North Carolina, covering Person County. Publications are on Thursdays.[1] The newspaper publishes several special sections, in January on Taxes, home improvement in May, local graduates in May, fall sports in August, holiday shopping on Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas greetings on Christmas Day.

In 2017, The Courier-Times was acquired by the owners of The Daily Record in Dunn, North Carolina.[2]

In 2020, then publisher-editor Johnny Whitfield resigned after racist editorial cartoon printed.[3]

Kelly Snow was hired as the publisher and editor in June 2020. Snow served as the C-T's sports editor from 2003 to 2006 and again from January 2012 to September 2020.

References

  1. ^ "rate card" (PDF). Roxboro Courier Times. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-10-24. Retrieved 2008-11-23.
  2. ^ "Daily Record Owners Buy Roxboro Newspaper". The Daily Record. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  3. ^ "Roxboro Courier-Times publisher-editor resigns after racist editorial cartoon printed". ABC 11. Retrieved 2020-06-16.

External links

Greater Durham-Chapel Hill Metropolitan Region (Durham MSA, part of the Research Triangle)
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