''The Laurinburg Exchange'' is a newspaper based in

Laurinburg, North Carolina Laurinburg is a city in and the county seat of Scotland County, North Carolina, United States. Located in southern North Carolina near the South Carolina border, Laurinburg is southwest of Fayetteville and is home to St. Andrews University. ...

covering

Laurinburg Laurinburg is a city in and the county seat of Scotland County, North Carolina, Scotland County, North Carolina, United States. Located in southern North Carolina near the South Carolina border, Laurinburg is southwest of Fayetteville, North Car ...

and Scotland County. It was established in 1882 as a weekly publication., The newspaper is currently published Tuesday through Saturday. The ''Exchange'' 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,

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, the former

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papers it had acquired, and

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into a new company,

Civitas Media Civitas Media, LLC was a Davidson, North Carolina-based publisher of community newspapers covering 11 Midwestern, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern states. The company was formed in 2012 via the merger of Heartland Publications, Impressions Media, O ...

. Civitas Media sold its properties in the Carolinas to Champion Media in 2017.

History

The Laurinburg Exchange was founded in 1882. The paper was originally published on Thursday each week, but is now published Tuesday through Saturday. The current editor, W. Curt Vincent, assumed the position in July 2018. Vincent has had 37 years of experience in the newspaper industry, holding positions like stringer, reporter, editor, and publisher.

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