Dan Cooper: Yancey County is located in the mountainous western stretch of North Carolina, about 45 minutes from Asheville. The county’s population is less than 18,000, and yet it has two local papers to serve it: the Yancey Common Times Journal, which has been in publication more than a hundred years, and the “other” newspaper, … Continue reading Disruption: The Tiny Newspaper In North Carolina That Scooped Up Journalism’s Big Prizes