Paul Mauney

Regional President
Tennessee – North Carolina – Southern Virginia

Publisher
Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN

Paul W. Mauney is the president of Adams Publishing Group’s Tennessee/North
Carolina/Virginia region.

Mauney, who previously served as general manager of The Greeneville Sun, joined
Adams Publishing in May of 2019 after managing multiple properties as the regional
publisher of Gatehouse Media’s North Carolina newspapers in Burlington, Lexington,
and Asheboro.

Mauney began his newspaper career in 1987 as district sales manager at The Shelby
Star in North Carolina and then held circulation and advertising positions at The
Henderson Dispatch and The Enquirer-Journal in Monroe and at Tennessee
newspapers The Daily News Journal in Murfreesboro and The Review
Appeal/Brentwood Journal in Franklin before returning to work at several other North
Carolina newspapers.

Mauney was also publisher of The Recorder/Noticiero Semanal in Porterville, Calif. from
2004-06, and then served as general manager of the Newspaper Division of Freedom
Communications before moving to Burlington, N.C., as publisher in 2008, where he
eventually became regional publisher, adding The Asheboro Courier-Tribune and
Lexington Dispatch to his list of responsibilities.