Daily Dispatch and later launched the newspaper's website, www.hendersondispatch.com. Bean is currently a group publisher for Paxton Media Group newspapers in North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, and the publisher of The Herald Sun in Durham, N.C., and the High Point Enterprise in High Point, N.C. James D. Edwards became publisher of The Dispatch when Bean moved to High Point in 2004. He previously served as managing editor in the 1980s. William B. Dennis's son, William A. Dennis, took over as editor following his father's retirement. Other editors have included James Dutra, Laverne Jefferies, Arthur Murray, Glenn Craven and Luke Horton. The newspaper's current editor, Alan Wooten, joined The Daily Dispatch staff in April 2012. Wooten became publisher/editor when Edwards left the newspaper in January 2014. Awards The Daily Dispatch is a member of the North Carolina Newspaper Association. It was a back-to-back winner in 2006 and 2007 of the North Carolina Press Association's General Excellence Awards for newspapers with 15,000 subscribers and less. See also List of newspapers in North Carolina References Vance County, North Carolina Daily newspapers published in North Carolina 1914 establishments in North Carolina