North Carolina Press Association

north carolina press association  |  supporting the public's right to know since 1873 Posted Monday, June 29, 2026 3:15 pm Julia Jones Daniels, the “professional volunteer” who led dozens of arts, history and museum groups across North Carolina, and who formed one half of Raleigh’s best known power couple while married to News & Observer publisher Frank Daniels Jr., died Saturday. She was 94.

north carolina press association  |  supporting the public's right to know since 1873 Posted Monday, June 1, 2026 11:04 am Columbus County has agreed to pay lawyer fees for The Assembly and Border Belt Independent, after a judge ruled that the county had failed to comply with North Carolina’s public records laws. The county had appealed Superior Court Judge Quintin McGee’s order in December that the county pay $74,557 to cover the cost of lawyers representing the news organizations.

north carolina press association  |  supporting the public's right to know since 1873 Posted Friday, May 22, 2026 10:15 am Paxton Media Group, which purchased the Cherokee Scout and affiliated newspapers in March, has announced changes at several locations.

north carolina press association  |  supporting the public's right to know since 1873 Posted Friday, May 22, 2026 10:20 am Graham’s city council has decided not to pursue one councilman’s suggestion of stripping the city’s legal advertising from The Alamance News and placing it in The (Burlington) Times-News, instead.

north carolina press association  |  supporting the public's right to know since 1873 Posted Friday, May 15, 2026 2:02 pm NCPA is introducing a new mobile advertising solution you can sell directly to your local advertisers—designed specifically for our members who want to compete and win in the mobile space without having to build new infrastructure. This will be your product to sell in your local market.

north carolina press association  |  supporting the public's right to know since 1873 Posted Friday, April 24, 2026 10:11 am We continue to underestimate the disdain, annoyance, even vitriol expressed by some Graham city councilmen aimed at their constituents, now including this newspaper. It’s clear the council resents its residents’ disagreement with their decision to relocate the Sesquicentennial Park, and now they’ve decided to widen their target of retaliatory punishment to this newspaper.

The National Newspaper Association today asked Postmaster General David Steiner to lift a cloud from the advertising of medical marijuana in the mail. Today’s action was prompted by Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche’s decision to reclassify medical marijuana from an Article I controlled substance to a lower and less dangerous level. Public opinion polls indicate wide majority of Americans support lowering the prohibitions on medical marijuana use.

Applications are open for publishers with strong plans to expand into new markets. You’ll receive roughly $100,000 in support for your top-notch expansion idea alongside a year of Blue Engine coaching in a community of courageous, ambitious peers doing similar work. We’ve been absolutely blown away by the efforts of the 20 publishers we’re working with across the country to grow into new markets (you can see all of them below). And we could not be more excited to see your proposals this year.

north carolina press association  |  supporting the public's right to know since 1873 Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2026 9:22 am Six North Carolina news organizations, including NC Newsline, are suing the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill for refusing to release a report on its School of Civic Life and Leadership. The university paid $1.2 million to the law firm K&L Gates to review the program in 2025.

north carolina press association  |  supporting the public's right to know since 1873 Posted Friday, March 27, 2026 4:11 pm PLYMOUTH — Mary Ruth Wayt, longtime publisher of the Roanoke Beacon and a fixture in small-town journalism, died Friday, March 13, following a brief illness. She was 67. Her passing comes at a pivotal moment for the newspaper she helped lead for more than two decades — and may mark its final chapter.