North Carolina
Press
As of 2002, North Carolina had 30 morning newspapers, 17 evening dailies, and 39 Sunday papers. The following table shows the circulation of the largest dailies as of 2002:
| AREA | NAME | DAILY | SUNDAY |
| Charlotte | Observer (m,S) | 235,375 | 291,080 |
| Greensboro | News & Record (m,S) | 88,781 | 111,060 |
| Raleigh | News & Observer (m,S) | 162,869 | 208,407 |
| Winston–Salem | Journal (m,S) | 84,780 | 96,038 |
The Charlotte Observer won a 1981 Pulitzer Prize for its series on brown lung disease. The (Raleigh) News & Observer won a 1996 Pulitzer Prize for its series on the hog industry in North Carolina.
North Carolina has been the home of several nationally recognized "little reviews" of literature, poetry, and criticism, including The Rebel, Crucible, Southern Poetry Review, The Carolina Quarterly, St. Andrews Review, The Sun, Pembroke Magazine, and Miscellany. The North Carolina Historical Review is a quarterly scholarly publication of the Division of Archives and History.