{{short description|American newspaper}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Times-News | image = Times-News cover.jpg | image_size = 150px | caption = Front cover on February 28, 2012 | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = 1881 | owners = USA Today Co. | language = American English | publisher = Lucy Talley,<ref name="NCPA" /> Ned Cowan | editor = Jennifer Heaslip,<ref name="NCPA" /> Diane Norman | headquarters = 106 Henderson Crossing<br />Hendersonville, NC, 28792<br />United States | publishing_city = Hendersonville | publishing_country = United States of America | circulation = 6,217 | circulation_date = 2018 | oclc = 13285937 | circulation_ref = <ref>{{Cite web |date=2018 |title=2018 Legacy NEWM Annual Reports |url=https://s202.q4cdn.com/162862548/files/doc_financials/2018/ar/2018-NEWM-Annual-Report.pdf |website=investors.gannett.com}}</ref> | ISSN = 1042-2323 | website = {{URL|blueridgenow.com}} }}
The '''''Times-News''''' is an American, English language daily newspaper headquartered in Hendersonville, North Carolina. It has served Henderson, Transylvania and Polk counties in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina since 1881. The ''Hendersonville Times'' began in 1881 and the ''Hendersonville News'' in 1894.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KBsaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fyQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5957%2C5643912 |title=Editorials |work=Times-News |date=April 27, 1992 |access-date=July 4, 2017}}</ref><ref name="NCPA">{{cite web |url=http://www.ncpress.com/directory/ |title=Member Directory |publisher=North Carolina Press Association |access-date=March 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320232927/http://www.ncpress.com/directory/ |archive-date=March 20, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>
==History== ''The Times-News'' was founded in 1881. The newspaper has been known as:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063811/ |title=''The Times-News'' |website=Library of Congress |access-date=January 20, 2020}}</ref><ref name="FB" /> * ''The Times-News''. (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current * ''Hendersonville Times''. (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1924-1927 * ''The Hendersonville News''. (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1919-1927 * ''The News of Henderson County''. (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1918-1919 * ''Independent Herald''. (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1881-18??
In December 1985, it became an A.M. paper and added a Sunday edition. With a daily circulation of approximately 15,000, the ''Times-News'' averages about 40,000 readers per day.
In May 2007, it relaunched its website (formerly known as HendersonvilleNews.com) as BlueRidgeNow.com. The ''Times-News'' also has a Facebook page, the BlueRidgeNow (BRN).<ref name="FB">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/pg/blueridgenow/about/?ref=page_internal |title=About Blue Ridge Now |website=Facebook |access-date=January 20, 2020}}</ref>
The ''Times-News'' was owned by Halifax Media Group until 2015, when Halifax was acquired by New Media Investment Group.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ir.newmediainv.com/Cache/1001192429.PDF?Y=&O=PDF&D=&FID=1001192429&T=&IID=4426551 |title=New Media Announces Agreement to Acquire Halifax Media Group for $280.0 Million |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307125519/http://ir.newmediainv.com/cache/1001192429.pdf?d=&fid=1001192429&iid=4426551&o=pdf&t=&y= |archive-date=March 7, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/items/2012/01/06/halifax-media-purchases-16-newspapers.html |title=Halifax Media purchases 16 newspapers |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120109211739/http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/items/2012/01/06/halifax-media-purchases-16-newspapers.html |archive-date=January 9, 2012}}</ref>
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==External links== * http://www.BlueRidgeNow.com
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Times-News, The Category:Daily newspapers published in North Carolina Category:Newspapers established in 1881 Category:1881 establishments in North Carolina Category:USA Today Co. publications