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The Fayetteville Observer
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Gannett
PublisherRobert J. Gruber
Founded1816
Headquarters458 Whitfield Street
Fayetteville, North Carolina 28306 USA
Circulation61,875 weekday
65,595 Sunday, 2008[1]
ISSN2155-9740
OCLC number45115389
Websitewww.fayobserver.com
Front page of the March 9, 1865 Fayetteville Observer newspaper

The Fayetteville Observer is an America, English language daily newspaper published in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It was locally owned by the McMurray family from 1923 to 2016, when it was acquired by GateHouse Media, which became Gannett in an acquisition in 2019.[2]

The paper is the oldest continuously published newspaper in North Carolina. It was founded in 1816 as the Carolina Observer. The Observer's offices were destroyed by William T. Sherman's invading army in 1865.[3] It was refounded as The Fayetteville Observer in 1883. Originally an afternoon paper, it began publishing a morning paper, The Fayetteville Times, in 1973. The two papers merged as a single morning paper, The Fayetteville Observer-Times, in 1990. It dropped "Times" from its flag in 1999.[4][5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Fayetteville Observer". Audit Bureau of Circulations. Retrieved May 25, 2008.
  2. ^ Tracy, Marc (November 14, 2019). "Gannett Gatehouse Merger". New York Times.
  3. ^ Parker, Roy (2006). "Fayetteville Observer". NCpedia. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  4. ^ "Fayetteville Observer, About Us". Fayetteville Observer. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
  5. ^ "Fayetteville Observer". Library of Congress. Retrieved January 13, 2020.

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