''The Mount Airy News'' is a three-day-a-week newspaper published in Mount Airy,

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, United States. It was established in 1880. The ''News'' is one of two newspapers serving Surry County, along with ''

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'' in Elkin.

History

''The Mount Airy News'' and ''The Tribune'' have the same corporate parent. In June 2007, both ''The Mount Airy News'' and ''The Tribune'' were part of a sale from Mid-South Management Co., Inc. to

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 ...

, LLC of Connecticut. Mount Airy had two newspapers until around 1980, when the weekly ''Mount Airy Times'' was bought by the ''News''. In 2007, the city again had two papers with ''The Messenger'' and ''The Mount Airy News''. However, after attempting several different publication schedules, ''The Messenger'' closed less than three years later, shutting its doors in 2010. ''The Mount Airy News'' was published seven days a week. On April 9, 2012, ''The News'' ceased publication of its Monday edition. The paper now publishes Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. 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,

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. Civitas Media sold its properties in the Carolinas to Champion Media in 2017. Later in 2017, Champion Media sold its Mount Airy area newspapers to

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References

External links

''The Mount Airy News'' current homepage

''The Mount Airy News'' issues from 1917-1929
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mount Airy News, The Daily newspapers published in North Carolina Surry County, North Carolina 1880 establishments in North Carolina Newspapers established in 1880

History

See also

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