Kinston Free Press

The Free Press
Type	Daily newspaper
Owner(s)	Paxton Media Group
Founded	1882
Language	American English
Headquarters	2103 N. Queen St.; Kinston, North Carolina
Circulation	4,002 (as of 2018)
Sister newspapers	Sun Journal (New Bern, NC); Daily News (Jacksonville, NC);
OCLC number	22960616
Website	kinston.com

The Free Press is an American, English language daily newspaper based in Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It has served the city of Kinston and Lenoir County, North Carolina since 1882. The Free Press was owned by Freedom Communications until 2012, when Freedom sold its Florida and North Carolina papers to Halifax Media Group. In November 2014, Halifax announced the sale of The Free Press and its other properties to New Media Investment Group Inc. In 2015, Halifax was acquired by New Media Investment Group, which was merged into Gannett in 2019.^[2]

^ "2018 Legacy NEWM Annual Reports" (PDF). investors.gannett.com. 2018.
^ "New Media Announces Agreement to Acquire Halifax Media Group for $280.0 Million" (PDF). newsmediainv.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2015-03-08.

[1] "2018 Legacy NEWM Annual Reports" (PDF). investors.gannett.com. 2018.

[2] "New Media Announces Agreement to Acquire Halifax Media Group for $280.0 Million" (PDF). newsmediainv.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2015-03-08.

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