Tag: kirk-ross

  • Two Birthdays, One Dude

    One local dude, Kirk Ross, definitely abides. March 23rd, he celebrated the 2nd anniversary of the Carrboro Citizen, a hyper-local newspaper he bootstrapped online and migrated, partially, off-line to real, physical print. Strangely, it feels like only a moment ago I posted on the kick-off of this growing outlet (a reverse of the sad trend […]

  • Nov. 23: The History of Chapel Hill’s Dead Tree Media

    The troubled News and Observer posted this reminder: The Chapel Hill Historical Society will present The History of Print Media in Chapel Hill and Carrboro on Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. The featured speakers will be Don Evans, an editor and writer at The Chapel Hill News for three decades, and Kirk Ross, former […]

  • CarrboroCitizen: Better Late

    I bumped into the new CarrboroCitizen’s Taylor Sisk and Kirk Ross this morning at Carrboro’s Weaver St. Market. “Where’s the paper?”, I asked. Kirk said that more than 20 folks had already called him asking the same question “Where’s my paper?” Well, they had a few bumps on the road to their premier issue. All’s […]