BUY LOCAL – Advertise in your community newspaper!

The Carrboro Citizen is the only locally owned and operated newspaper covering the greater Carrboro-Chapel Hill area. Our paper is published every Thursday, and is distributed free in racks at roughly 160 locations (as of October 2009) in and around Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Pittsboro, Southern Village, and along 15-501 in northern Chatham County. Our current press run is 6000 copies (as of October 2009.)

NOT “JUST” A CARRBORO NEWSPAPER

While we certainly are proud of our coverage of Carrboro, we also take pride in covering local government, news and events in Chapel Hill, Orange County and northern Chatham County. We now actually distribute more papers each week in Chapel Hill than in Carrboro, and are well read in Hillsborough, Pittsboro, the White Cross area, and points in between.

DISPLAY ADVERTISING

Open rate is $8.90 per column inch. Discounts are available based on frequency and bulk. Color starts at $45 per ad. More detailed information and copies of our media kit (printed or electronic) are available by calling 919-942-2100 or emailing ads at carrboro citizen dot com. Our ad director is always available to work with you and come up with a campaign that fits any budget.

Deadlines for display space and materials:
Print-ready files – Monday prior to publication, 5 pm
Ads requiring design services – Friday prior, 12 noon

The Citizen is a six column broadsheet, 21 inches deep. Depths in half inch increments. Call or email for column widths.

Ad design services are available to Citizen advertisers at no additional charge. Our artist will lay out your ad and send you a proof for approval. If you prefer to design your own ads, PDF files (200 dpi) may be submitted to ads at carrboro citizen dot com.

(Note: the week of Thanksgiving, our paper typically comes out on Wednesday and all deadlines are a day earlier. Generally, we also will publish on Wednesday any week that a major holiday – Christmas, New Year’s, July 4th – falls on a Thursday.)

MILL

MILL is our monthly arts, music, food, beverage and literature publication. MILL is inserted into the Citizen near the beginning of each calendar month.

MILL is a tabloid, 11.5 inches deep. Ad space is sold in modular sizes (1/16 page, 1/8 page, 1/4 page, 1/2 page, full page.) Call or email for dimensions.

Ads in MILL start at just $50, and color starts at $45. Frequency discounts are available. Call or email for details.

Deadlines for MILL are Thursday prior for space reservations, Monday prior for print-ready files, and Friday prior for ads requiring design services.

OTHER SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTIONS

Other special sections are published throughout the year, such as our spring gardening guide and our summer health & wellness publication. We also produce the Carrboro Community Resource and Visitor’s Guide for the Town of Carrboro in the fall. Our advertising staff can keep you informed as these become available.

CLASSIFIED ADS

You can design and purchase your own classified liner ads right here on our website. Classified deadline is Tuesday night at midnight. Call us at 919-942-2100 (by 5 pm Tuesday) if you need technical assistance.

PREPRINT INSERTIONS

Preprint rates start at $60/m for single sheet and go up based on page count of your insert. Materials must meet our technical requirements and should be drop-shipped to our printer (call or email for shipping info.) Deadline for space and materials is 14 days prior to insertion.

ADVERTISING ON OUR WEBSITE

Call or email for details.

POLITICAL ADVERTISING

Open rate only. Must be paid for in advance of publication. Ad must display the name of the individual or group authorizing the ad.

CONTACT OUR ADVERTISING STAFF TO LEARN MORE!

Ad Sales & Information:
Marty Cassady, Advertising Director
919-942-2100 ext. 2
marty at carrborocitizen dot com

Accounts Receivable & Billing Questions:
Anne Billings, Office Manager
919-942-2100 ext. 0
anne at carrborocitizen dot com