Paul Mauney

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.