''The Robesonian'' is a
newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sport ...
published in
Lumberton, North Carolina
Lumberton is a city in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States. As of 2020, its population was 19,025. It is the seat of Robeson County's government.
Located in southern North Carolina's Inner Banks region, Lumberton is located on the ...
, 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
Heartland Publications was a Connecticut-based owner of small to medium market newspapers, and started out by acquiring 24 publications from Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. located in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennesse ...
. In 2012 Versa Capital Management merged Heartland Publications,
Ohio Community Media
Ohio Community Media was an American privately owned publisher of daily and weekly newspapers, primarily in the state of Ohio. It was headquartered in the Dayton suburb of Miamisburg, Ohio, and was owned by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Mana ...
, the former
Freedom papers it had acquired, and
Impressions Media
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, location = 15 North Main Street,Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18 ...
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 and 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
*
List of newspapers in North Carolina
There have been newspapers in North Carolina since the ''North-Carolina Gazette'' began publication in the Province of North Carolina in 1751. As of January 2020, there were approximately 260 newspapers in publication in North Carolina. While pr ...
References
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Daily newspapers published in North Carolina