You may place classified ads in The News & Observer and any of our community newspapers by phone, fax or online. We have a category and rate that will suit your needs. Please contact us for details.

Phone: (919) 829-4600 or (919) 829-4800
Fax: (919) 829-4626
Toll Free in NC: (800) 662-6040
Place your ad online

Found Ads
We offer free “found” ads to individuals seeking to reunite pets and items with their owners. Ads of up to 4 lines are published for 5 days.

Obituaries and Memorials
In addition to brief death notices published without charge as news, we offer the opportunity for more extensive obituaries and memorials to loved ones. For details on deadlines, procedures and rates, please contact us at (919) 829-4545 or (800) 326-0817.

Statement of Position
We make every effort to print only those ads deemed credible. We reserve the right to revise, edit or reject any or all copy. Please submit a letter to the Classified Director anytime the offer implied differs from the actual offer. Address: Classified Director, The News & Observer, PO Box 191, Raleigh, NC 27602.

Please Check Your Ad
We make every effort to avoid errors in advertisements. Each ad is carefully checked and proofread, but when thousands of ads are handled each day, mistakes do slip through. Therefore we ask that you check your ad , and if you find an error, report it to the Classified Department immediately by calling (919) 829-4600. We regret that we cannot be responsible for more than one day's incorrect insertion for the portion of ad that is in error if you do not call the error to our attention.

Abbreviations
Classified ad standard abbreviations