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The Roanoke Times is the primary newspaper in Southwestern Virginia and is based in Roanoke, Virginia, United States.It is published by Lee Enterprises. In addition to its headquarters in Roanoke, it maintains a bureau in Christiansburg, covering the eastern New River Valley and Virginia Tech.
Fleming Alexander founded the Roanoke Tribune newspaper in 1939 at 5 Gilmer Avenue, later moved to 312 Henry Street, and then to Melrose Avenue in Roanoke. As an African-American newspaper, it brought attention against the Jim Crow laws of Roanoke and Western Virginia, and championed black representation on Roanoke's public boards and better schools for the black children in the segregated ...
Lester J. Cappon. Virginia Newspapers, 1821–1935: A Bibliography with Historical Introduction and Notes. New York: Appleton-Century Co., 1936. Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Newspapers", Virginia: a Guide to the Old Dominion, American Guide Series, Oxford University Press, pp. 130– 137, ISBN 9780403021956 – via Google Books; Harrison A ...
Flanagan had been fired from the news outlet in 2013 for poor performance and disruptive behavior. He later took a position at a UnitedHealthcare call center in Roanoke, where he worked until ...
George Freeman Bragg, editor of the Virginia Lancet. Front page of the Richmond Planet from 1902. This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Virginia. It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first African American newspaper in the state was The True Southerner, in 1865. [1]
The city's daily newspaper, The Roanoke Times, has been published since 1886. [242] As of 2023, weekday and Sunday circulation both average around 25,000. [243] In 2013 the paper was sold to Berkshire Hathaway, which in turn sold its BH Media holdings – The Roanoke Times included – to Lee Enterprises in 2020. [244]
On January 31, 2013, Landmark sold the News & Record newspaper in Greensboro, North Carolina to Berkshire Hathaway. In May 2013, Landmark sold the Roanoke Times, the metropolitan newspaper serving Roanoke, Virginia, also to Berkshire Hathaway. [14] Landmark sold its Maryland newspapers to The Baltimore Sun Media Group on May 1, 2014. [15]
So it was odd when Greenhalgh, 48, failed to show up for her job as a reporter at The Winchester Star in Winchester, Va., on July 9, 2012, considering how busy she said she was going to be the ...