Misplaced Pages

The Robesonian

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Lumberton Robesonian) Newspaper published in North Carolina, USA
The Robesonian
The Robesonian nameplate c. 1926
TypeDaily newspaper
Owner(s)Champion Media
Founder(s)W.S. McDiamid
PublisherDenise Ward
EditorDavid Kennard
Sports editorChris Stiles
Founded1870 (1870)
Headquarters2175 N. Roberts Ave., Lumberton, North Carolina, US
Circulation60,000
ISSN2474-2236
OCLC number10467669
Websiterobesonian.com

The Robesonian is a newspaper published in Lumberton, North Carolina, Tuesday through Friday afternoon and Saturday and Sunday morning.

The Robesonian traces its heritage back to 1870, when it was established by W.S. McDiamid, a Baptist preacher. The Robesonian was previously owned by Heartland Publications. 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. Civitas Media sold its properties in the Carolinas to Champion Media in 2017.

Notable events

The newspaper attracted national attention when on February 1, 1988, when two Native Americans entered the newspaper's offices armed and took 20 hostages. The stand-off lasted ten hours; Timothy Jacobs and Eddie Hatcher hoped to attract attention to the plight of American Indians, and later, after their arrest, had a local civil rights attorney deliver a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev in anticipation of a summit between Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev.

The newspaper attracted more attention in August, 2018, when it stopped providing its 8-page Sunday color comics section. An editorial on July 28, 2018 entitled "Trump’s newsprint tariffs force not-so-funny decision" blame the cost of newsprint from Canada, a target "in Trump's Tariff Wars."

The Robesonian is a member of the North Carolina Press Association.

See also

References

  1. ^ "About Us". Archived from the original on 24 April 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. ^ "The Robesonian". NC Press Association. Archived from the original on January 5, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
  3. "The Robesonian". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
  4. "The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-Current". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 2024-08-07. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  5. "About Us". Robesonian. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
  6. Business Wire (12 September 2012), Versa Capital Announces the Formation of Civitas Media, LLC, retrieved April 10, 2017 {{citation}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  7. "Quarterly Updates - 2nd Quarter 2017". Dirks, Van Essen & Murray. 2017-06-30. Archived from the original on 2017-10-29. Retrieved 2017-10-28.
  8. "Indians Hope Hostage-Taking Delivers More Than Attention". The Miami Herald. 8 February 1988. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  9. "Guilty Plea in Kidnap". Newsday. 5 May 1989. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  10. "Lumberton, Robesonian Back To Normal". The Fayetteville Observer. 3 February 1988. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  11. "Robeson Indians Send Protest to Gorbachev". The Fayetteville Observer. 3 April 1988. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  12. Martinez, Rebecca (August 2018). "Trump's Paper Tariff's Stifle The Sunday Robesonian". www.wunc.org. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
  13. Robesonian Editorial Board (2018-07-28). "Trump's newsprint tariffs force not-so-funny decision". Robesonian. Archived from the original on 2019-02-07. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
Champion Media
Categories: