A new paradigm for community news may be emerging in Western North Carolina’s famously independent and insular rural counties, traditionally served mainly by small weekly newspapers. Thousands of people in these sparsely populated areas are now getting up-to-the-minute local news via Facebook.
My attention was recently drawn to a discussion on a local Yahoo group Web forum regarding an issue I had some firsthand knowledge about. I was not surprised that the initiator of the discussion presented the issue in a self-aggrandizing light. But what did surprise me was the number of people without any firsthand knowledge […]
SYLVA—Southern Highland Reader author Bill Graham and former Smoky Mountain News reporter Giles Morris have teamed up to start the Tuckasegee Reader, an online journal of culture, outdoors and community news serving the area from Cashiers to the Nantahala Gorge.
