Butner-Creedmoor News
TypeWeekly newspaper
Owner(s)Restoration Newsmedia
PublisherKeven Zepezauer[1]
EditorLogan Martinez[1]
Founded1965 [2]
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters109 South Elm St. Creedmoor, NC 27522
Circulation5,400 (as of 2018)[3]
OCLC number30715527
Websitebutnercreedmoornews.com

The Butner-Creedmoor News is a weekly newspaper with coverage area including the towns of Butner, Creedmoor and Stem, as well as Southern Granville, Northern Wake and Northern Durham counties in North Carolina.[4] The newspaper is printed on Fridays and is online as well; it covers local news, area sports, and local obituaries. It started publishing in 1965.[5]

History

Harry Coleman served as editor from 1974, when he moved to Granville County, until his death in 2012.[6] The current editor is Logan Martinez.[7] His position was announced on March 12, 2019.[8]

Morgan Dickerman, the current president of The Wilson Times, one of North Carolina's last two family-owned daily newspapers, publishes The Butner-Creedmoor News as one of its four weekly papers.[9]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "North Carolina Newspaper Directory". Retrieved 2019-10-17.
  2. ↑ "Library of Congress". Retrieved 2019-10-17.
  3. ↑ Editor & Publisher DataBook. Vol. Weeklies. 2018. p. 285.
  4. ↑ "About us". The Butner-Creedmoor News. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  5. ↑ "About The Butner-Creedmoor news. [volume] (Creedmoor, N.C.) 1965-current". National Endowment for the Humanities: Chronicling America. Retrieved 2019-10-18 – via Library of Congress.
  6. ↑ Upchurch, Keith (2012-10-24). "Butner-Creedmoor News editor dies". The Herald-Sun. Durham, N.C.
  7. ↑ "About us". The Butner-Creedmoor News. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  8. ↑ "Martinez named editor; new design premieres". The Butner-Creedmoor News. 2019-03-12. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  9. ↑ "The Wake Weekly, Butner-Creedmoor News owner forms Restoration Newsmedia". Wake Weekly. Retrieved 2019-10-24.


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