Courier Times Explained

The Courier-Times
Type:Weekly newspaper
Format:Broadsheet
Editor:Kelly Snow
Language:English

The Courier-Times is a once-a-week newspaper based in Roxboro, North Carolina, covering Person County. Publications are on Thursdays.[1] The newspaper publishes several special sections, in January on Taxes, home improvement in May, local graduates in May, fall sports in August, holiday shopping on Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas greetings on Christmas Day.

In 2017, The Courier-Times was acquired by the owners of The Daily Record in Dunn, North Carolina.[2]

In 2020, then publisher-editor Johnny Whitfield resigned after racist editorial cartoon printed.[3]

Kelly Snow was hired as the publisher and editor in June 2020. Snow served as the C-T's sports editor from 2003 to 2006 and again from January 2012 to September 2020.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: rate card . https://web.archive.org/web/20081024114951/http://www.roxboro-courier.com/adsolutions/2008%20Rate%20card.pdf . dead . 2008-10-24 . Roxboro Courier Times . 2008-11-23 .
  2. Web site: Daily Record Owners Buy Roxboro Newspaper. The Daily Record. 2019-08-04.
  3. Web site: Roxboro Courier-Times publisher-editor resigns after racist editorial cartoon printed. ABC 11. 2020-06-16.