Times-News (Hendersonville, North Carolina)

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.^[3][1]

Times-News

Front cover on February 28, 2012
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Gannett
Publisher	Lucy Talley,[1] Ned Cowan
Editor	Jennifer Heaslip,[1] Diane Norman
Founded	1881
Language	American English
Headquarters	106 Henderson Crossing Hendersonville, NC, 28792 United States
City	Hendersonville
Country	United States of America
Circulation	6,217 (as of 2018)[2]
ISSN	1042-2323
OCLC number	13285937
Website	blueridgenow.com
Media of the United States of America

History

The Times-News was founded in 1881. The newspaper has been known as:^[4][5]

• 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).^[5]

The Times-News was owned by Halifax Media Group until 2015, when Halifax was acquired by New Media Investment Group.^[6][7]