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State Sen. Rick Horner wants to ensure public legal notices — important announcements of special meetings, land transfers, contract bids and other government actions — are posted where …
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Wilson Times
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4/4/17
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The News & Record announced Monday it has cut 36 staff positions and plans to make changes in the print newspaper to streamline operations in response to market changes.The News & …
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4/4/17
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Last summer Betsy O’Donovan, the incoming Executive Director of The Daily Tar Heel, wrote an essay on Medium charting the dire financial situation of UNC-Chapel Hill’s student …
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Melody Kramer for Poynter
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4/4/17
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Catherine climbed the ranks from sales person to sales manager at her paper. “Although I’ve been in the business for a long time,” she told me, “there’s always a new way to look at …
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John Foust
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4/1/17
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Longtime owner and publisher emeritus Ernest L. Pitt has announced plans to sell The Chronicle in Winston Salem. The new pending owner, The Chronicle Media Group, LLC, is headed by Winston-Salem City …
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3/31/17
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StarNews Executive Editor Pam Sanders will now oversee three additional GateHouse Media daily newspapers and several weeklies with a promotion to the Coastal Carolinas Group's regional …
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3/31/17
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Every year or two some legislators in the state General Assembly file bills that would make it more difficult for citizens to find legal notices. Now three state senators have introduced Senate Bill …
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The Transylvania Times
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3/30/17
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Ad scams about a "personal assistant" or "office assistant" are nothing new; they come in every week. However, some are showing a new level of sophistication when it comes it comes to getting them …
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3/29/17
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Small and mighty. Although the weekly Havelock News is among the state's smaller newspapers in terms of circulation, it packs a big punch.
Consistently a top contender in it's division of the NCPA …
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3/29/17
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A how-to for NCPA members uploading notices to ncnotices.com Read this story for info and videos on the upload process.
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3/27/17
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Calling it a matter of the public’s right know, North Carolina newspaper publishers are pushing back against a bill that would let governments and attorneys stop publishing public and legal notices …
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Bill Cresenzo
Times-News
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3/27/17
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A Times editorial
Some North Carolina lawmakers want local governments to compete with newspapers and sell legal advertising, making important information more difficult to find.
Sen. Trudy …
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Wilson Times
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3/27/17
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One of the brightest lights in local journalism suffered a setback late last year when Raleigh Agenda, the sister site of Charlotte Agenda, closed its doors after failing to find a sustainable …
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Benjamin Mullen for Poynter
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3/24/17
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Contrary to Senator Wade's claims in her recent press release, her bill to change the legal advertising law is not supported by the NCPA.
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3/23/17
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You may have heard the old story about the door-to-door salesman who was selling vacuum cleaners way out in the country. When a lady came to the door, he dramatically emptied a bag of dirt onto the …
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John Foust
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3/22/17
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Raymond Dock Ellington, Jr., has passed away. For 18 years starting in 1983, Ellington was the pressroom supervisor at what is now the Sunbelt Press in Dunn, which prints The Daily Record and other …
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3/22/17
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Ernest Hemingway: “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”W. Somerset Maugham: “There are three rules for writing well. Unfortunately, no one …
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Ed Henninger
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3/22/17
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