Congratulations to Caitlin Byrd and Max Cooper, two Mountain Xpress staffers who have earned recognition from the National Newspaper Association.
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Asheville Argus: Open letter to photo-phobes
Among these colorful folks were a couple of shirtless guys wearing bandannas over their faces. One of them quickly sought me out to tell me that I couldn’t take his picture. Those were his words, exactly: “You can’t take my picture.”
Six Xpress stories and projects named in 2011 N.C. Press Association awards
In the 2011 North Carolina Press Association awards, Mountain Xpress earned recognition for six stories, projects and publications, including two first-place awards.
Introducing the Asheville Argus
Disenchanted Asheville artist Max Cooper points his camera at the street: “Everybody lies, but some people lie more than others. Some people claim not to lie at all. We call those people journalists.”
In the case of suicide: to publish, or not to publish?
A man committed suicide by jumping off the Smokey Park Bridge this week. Should Xpress have published his name?
The fight over a Bele Chere photo
Necessary documentation of the news or a privacy violation? A photo, by Citizen-Times reporter Jason Sandford, of medics treating an over-heated Hare Krishna at Bele Chere has set off a debate.
Photo copyright Jason Sandford, used with permission
Free no more: Pay walls go up online for three Gannett newspapers
Three Gannett newspaper recently debuted pay walls, including one close to WNC — the Tallahassee Democrat, The Greenville (S.C.) News and The (St. George, Utah) Spectrum. Pay walls block free access to a publication, requiring viewers to pay first, read later. Is the Asheville Citizen-Times next?
Citizen-Times details its LINC collaboration project with area bloggers
The Citizen-Times provided details today about it’s online collaborative journalism project, LINC, which similar to a Seattle Times project, and is part of a five-paper project sponsored by American University’s J-Lab Institute and funded by the Knight Foundation.