The
News & Record traces its roots to the
Daily Record which was first printed on November 17, 1890, in
Greensboro, North Carolino. An afternoon paper, it was begun by John Benson, Joseph Reece, and Harper J. Elam. Both Benson and Elam eventually sold their interest in the paper to Reece who operated it as sole owner for 14 years until his death in 1915. For four years thereafter it was owned by Al Fairbrother and George Crater until it was bought by
Julian Price in 1919. The
Daily News was a morning paper founded in 1909, an outgrowth of the recently defunct
Daily Industrial News. The
Daily News and the associated company, the Greensboro News Company, grew quickly, acquiring the other morning paper, the
Greensboro Telegram in 1911, and in 1930, acquired the
Daily Record. The Greensboro News Company and its two papers were run by Edwin Bedford Jeffress, who owned half interest in the company, after 1914. He remained president until 1961, when his son, Charles, took over the reins of the company. In 1965, the company was purchased by Norfolk-Portsmouth Newspapers, based in Norfolk, Virginia. Jeffress remained publisher but the presidency was given to Frank Batten of Norfolk. Two years later, Norfolk-Portsmouth Newspapers became
Landmark Communications. In the early 1980s, the
Greensboro Daily News and
The Greensboro Record (formerly
Daily Record) began gradually consolidating their operations, beginning with the Sunday edition in 1980, though there had not been an afternoon paper on Sundays previously, followed by Saturdays in 1983. By March 1984, both papers were combined into the
News & Record, a single paper with two editions, morning and afternoon. The afternoon edition was eliminated two years later. In 1999, the publication, at the direction of publisher Van King, broke with the downsizing trends in the newspaper industry and began a major expansion effort into communities surrounding Greensboro, especially the city of
High Point and
Randolph County. Layoffs continued over the following years. Editor John Robinson, facing declining budget projections for the paper, resigned in December 2011. At the time, the paper had 23 reporters. During the first five months, the newspaper was subject to two rounds of layoffs. By July 2016, the paper employed only 15 journalists. The following year the printing of the paper was moved to Winston-Salem, the location of the BH Media-owned
Winston-Salem Journal. The acquisition was soon followed by another round of layoffs at both Triad papers, including five
News & Record journalists, many of them from the sports staff. Starting November 3, 2025, the
News & Record did not print a Monday paper, putting that day's paper online. ==
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