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The Wilson Times

U.S. local news, center-right editorial page (small-town North Carolina)

Owned byRestoration Newsmedia, a company formed in April 2019. Morgan Dickerman III, the fifth-generation owner of the Wilson Times, is its publisher. Dickerman formed it with the owners of The Daily Record in Dunn (Bart and Brent Adams and Maere Kay Lashmit). The Wilson Times is its flagship paper.
FundingMainly local print and digital advertising, subscriptions (a metered paywall on wilsontimes.com), and legal and public notices. It is privately held and has no known billionaire or state backer.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

The paper's roots go back to Zion's Landmark, a Primitive Baptist newspaper founded in 1867. The Wilson Times itself was founded in 1896 as a weekly, and it began daily publication in 1902 as the Wilson Daily Times. The Dickerman family has owned it for five generations. In 2017 it moved from a 1983 suburban office building back to downtown Wilson. In 2019 Morgan Dickerman formed Restoration Newsmedia with the owners of The Daily Record in Dunn, as a way to help community papers handle industry economic pressures. Restoration later bought other papers, including the Wake Weekly papers. The Wilson Times now publishes twice a week with a circulation of roughly 10,800, and Corey Friedman is editor. Its news pages focus on Wilson County government, schools, crime, business and deed transfers. I did not find notable scandals or major editorial controversies, and I could not verify a detailed record on its coverage of the Trump administration. The profile of its orientation is therefore based on its ownership type and local focus, not on a review of recent national-politics coverage. Its self-presentation as a community newspaper serving local residents fits its content.

Sources

  1. The Wilson Times (Wikipedia)
  2. 'Our family's rock' for 125 years: Wilson Times marks milestone
  3. Dunn, Wilson newspapers form Restoration Newsmedia
  4. Enterprise owner forms Restoration Newsmedia
  5. Wilson Times Co. purchases Wake Weekly newspapers
  6. The Wilson Times returning to downtown roots - SNPA

Profile compiled 2026-10-14; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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