Pam Sander News Today

The paper says its focus on growing paid digital subscriptions is at odds with running the Asheville Watchdog's stories for free.

Plus, developer Gene Merritt chronicles downtown revitalization in "DARE to Dream" and historian Richard H. Triebe focuses on Confederate soldiers.

Since a company merger, I’ve spent considerable time bringing together 21 daily newspapers, two twice-weeklies and five weeklies.

The Saturday digital replica, or e-Edition, will have the same look and news as the printed newspaper.

I have to say, I was a little surprised when StarNews Editor Pam Sander asked me if Id consider becoming the new host of the Cape Fear Unearthed local history podcast. Current host Hunter Ingram, who started the podcast back in 2017 and has built a sizable following with it, leaves the StarNews for a new job at the end of this week. Hunters success with Cape Fear Unearthed shows just how deeply people are interested in the history of our region, so here is the part where I say how happy, excite...

Four years ago, while out at lunch with a friend, I started drawing a logo on a thin and uncooperative napkin. When I got back to the office, napkin in hand, I sketched out the shoddy design on a sheet of paper, even though the sturdier texture did nothing to help my lack of drawing skills. Still, I managed to capture the image rolling around in my head of the words “Cape Fear Unearthed,” the first two stacked on top of the third with a shovel forming the “F” and dug into the “Unearth...

Pam Sander The Fayetteville Observer was a big winner in our recent Sunday comics project.   We were tasked with creating a new section that consolidated 11 Gannett newspapers throughout the Carolinas to support efficiencies in print production.  As a result of the nearly 90,000 votes cast on 13,000 ballots, this newspaper adds six new comic strips, while losing just one, Peanuts, which years ago stopped producing new strips.   Because of their overwhelming popularity, these Top...