![]() "In winning, the Yancey County News bested entries by finalists Bloomberg News and ," the paper says in its online story about the award. Jonathan and Susan Austin, who founded the Yancey County News in Burnsville in January 2011, will receive $10,000 and the Edward Willis Scripps Award for “Unlawful Law Enforcement,” which exposed absentee-ballot fraud, ethics violations, abuse of arrest powers, and the theft and illegal sale of county-owned guns – "all during the newspaper’s first year of operation and despite risks both financial and physical,"the Scripps Howard Foundation said in announcing the award today. weekly wins national award for service to the First AmendmentĪ weekly newspaper in western North Carolina that is barely a year old has won the "Distinguished Service to the First Amendment" prize in the Scripps Howard Awards. ![]() Have won awards - taken from The Rural Blog, a digest of ruralĮvents, trends, issues, ideas and journalism from and about rural places, to help journalists who cover rural issues and need story ideas, sources,Ĭomparisons and inspiration. ![]() Is a collection of journalism that has won, should win, and should ![]()
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