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The ''Asheville Citizen-Times'' is the major daily newspaper of Asheville, North Carolina. It was formed in 1991 as a result of a merger of the morning ''Asheville Citizen'' and the afternoon ''Asheville Times''. It is owned by Gannett. Founded in 1870 as a weekly, the ''Citizen'' became a daily newspaper in 1885. Writers Thomas Wolfe, O. Henry, both buried in Asheville, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, a common visitor of Asheville, frequently could be found in the newsroom in earlier days. In 1930 the ''Citizen'' came under common ownership with the ''Times'', which was first established in 1896 as the ''Asheville Gazette''. The latter paper merged with a short-lived rival, the ''Asheville Evening News'', to form the ''Asheville Gazette-News'' and was renamed ''The Asheville Times'' by new owner Charles A. Webb. In 1954, the ''Citizen-Times'' was purchased by the Greenville News-Piedmont Company. In 1968 Greenville News-Piedmont merged with Southern Broadcasting Corporation to form Multimedia.〔(Multimedia, Inc. History )〕 In 1986, $12 million was invested in offset printing presses and a new production building in nearby Enka, with composed pages transmitted electronically from the downtown Asheville building located nine miles (14 km) away. In 1995, Multimedia was acquired by Gannett.〔(Gannett, Multimedia announce merger agreement )〕 In April 1997, the ''Citizen-Times'' became the first daily newspaper in Western North Carolina to launch a website; the site now receives tens of thousands of hits a day. In February 2011 the online editors changed the web format to show the previous day's letters as the latest letters to the editor which made only the paper purchasers able to read the current day's letters. Additional changes included blocking numerous online comment personalities. In Jan 2009, the press was shut down and shortly after sold off as scrap metal. Now the ''Citizen-Times'' is printed in Greenville, South Carolina, alongside ''The Greenville News'' and shipped to a distribution center. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Asheville Citizen-Times」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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