

The Observer ended circulation of the afternoon News in 1985. All operations were merged except editorial content, which was fused in 1983. In 1959, The Observer purchased The Charlotte News, Charlotte's afternoon newspaper.
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The Observer eventually became the fourth-largest newspaper in the Knight Ridder chain (behind The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, Detroit Free Press and Miami Herald).

Knight merged with Ridder Publications to form Knight Ridder in 1974. It was purchased by Knight Newspapers in 1955. The Chronicle was sold to Joseph Caldwell in 1892, and began appearing as the Charlotte Daily Observer on March 13, 1892. The paper was founded in 1886 as the Charlotte Chronicle. The old facility was demolished and redeveloped into office space. In 2016, the editorial offices moved to the NASCAR building on South Caldwell Street.
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The facility included editorial offices, management offices, advertising offices, production, plus a large printing facility with a tunnel and underground railway system to feed paper to the presses. The Observer offices also include editors and designers that makeup the McClatchy NewsDesk-East, which is responsible for the production of The Charlotte Observer and McClatchy newspapers from across the region.įrom 1927 to 2016, The Charlotte Observer was headquartered at 600 South Tryon Street. The Charlotte Observer also operates a food, drink and lifestyle vertical called CharlotteFive. The newspaper has an online presence and its staff also oversees a NASCAR news website, and a corresponding syndicated feature, That's Racin'.

The period of May 2011 showed that Charlotte Observer circulation totaled 155,497 daily and 212,318 Sunday. Home delivery service in outlying counties has declined in recent years, with delivery times growing later as the paper has outsourced circulation services outside the primary Charlotte area.Ĭirculation at The Charlotte Observer has been declining for many years.
