Yes, here’s the announcement we’ve been expecting: the Hendersonville Times-News is moving its downsized operation into smaller space in a shopping center. Over the past couple of years, the New York Times-owned newspaper has reduced staff, moved the printing of the newspaper to South Carolina and made other cost-cutting measures.
The same is likely the future of the Asheville Citizen-Times, which has undergone much of the same, including lay-offs, the closure of its printing press, a price increase for newspapers on the street and other cost-shaving measures.
It all just makes me sad.
Here’s the Times-News story:
The Times-News is moving this spring from 1717 Four Seasons Boulevard to a space in the Henderson Crossing Shopping Center that last housed the Rex appliance store.
The newspaper sold its Four Seasons Boulevard office to Goodwill Industries of North Carolina in August. The old Times-News building is slated to become home to a Goodwill retail store, said Jaymie Eichorn, marketing director with Goodwill Industries Inc.
The newspaper offices will move after the company completes renovations.
“Our new offices will be visible and easy to find, enabling us to serve our customers with the ease they’ve always enjoyed,” said Roger Quinn, publisher of the Times-News.
The current Times-News building is bigger than the newspaper’s offices require since the Times-News moved its production operations to a New York Times-owned facility in Spartanburg, S.C. That facility gives the newspaper better quality printing and more color options.
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Newspaper is dead folks, get over it and move on….
It is sad yet predictable. Anyone read the "news" in the Times-News? What a joke! They are so out of touch with the community. I wonder if Roger Quinn has ever been to Hendersonville. The local business community is very upset that all of the editing is done in Spartanburg.
Sad indeed. Who would have thunk newspapers would end up in this shape a decade ago? Not I.