WILMINGTON -- A new regional advertising director has been hired for GateHouse Media’s Coastal North Carolina Group, which includes the StarNews. Bill Davis, who arrives from The Roanoke Times … more

Today’s StarNews team may be more tech-savvy than those using Linotype, photo darkrooms and Exacto-blade backshops. The StarNews, North Carolina’s oldest daily newspaper in continuous … more

The Wichita Eagle has named as its new publisher a man who started his career with the newspaper.Fifty-nine-year-old Kelly Mirt will return as publisher and vice president of adverting for the Eagle … more

Sister newspapers in Eastern North Carolina are reorganizing their newsroom structures in a push to enhance local coverage on digital news platforms. Newspapers primarily affected by the … more

Veteran journalist G. Chambers Williams III has been named editor of The Sanford Herald, according to an announcement by Publisher Rachael Raney. more

BH Media will soon consolidate its North Carolina newspaper printing operations at the Winston-Salem Journal’s print facility on Fifth Street, where workers are installing an additional press … more

Effective immediately, the News of Orange County has named Adam Powell its editor. Powell replaces Charlie Pogacar, who he worked alongside for the past 14 months. more

Champion Media announced on Wednesday that it has acquired the North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina print, digital and local assets of Heartland, a Civitas Media company. The acquisition … more

The Greensboro News & Record will be moving its press operations to Winston-Salem later this year. The move comes as BH Media Group, the newspapers' parent company, seeks to consolidate … more

Rick Thomason, publisher of The Robesonian, Lumberton, is now publisher of the Kingsport Times-News in Tennessee, which is owned by Sandusky Newspaper Group. Thomason will also serve as senior vice president of content for Sandusky's eastern Tennessee newspapers, including the Johnson City Press and three weeklies. more

J.D. Walker, best known as the editor of Thrive magazine, has retired from Asheboro's Courier-Tribune following nearly nearly two decades there. more

The Dispatch, Lexington, announced the hiring of its new editor, three months after the departure of longtime Executive Editor Chad Killebrew. Scott Jenkins, recently the news editor at The Salisbury Post, has taken over the newsroom’s leadership role. more