Link of the Week: May 6 - 12
All the News That's Fit to Link

If you're looking for links to local media, especially newspapers, ABYZ News Links is the place to visit whether you're in Murphy or Morocco. The page sports links to over 16,000 media organizations, including most papers in North Carolina. Thanks to the folks at UNCA's Ramsey Library for recommending this link.

FIRE Media Forum
FIRE is hosting a media forum for nonprofit organizations on May 16 at ‘Jubilee!’ featuring top editors and reporters from local media. Come out and network, and learn all about how to get your cause into the news. For more information, see our Media Forum page.

Rolling Thunder
Thanks to everyone who came to visit FIRE's booth on May 3! What a great event.

Link/Article of the Week Archives
For your convenience, we've begun archiving past weeks' featured links and articles.

The Missing Link
Have any suggestions for us regarding next week’s link? Or is there information you seek, but you can’t find a helpful link? Let us know! If others would benefit from the information, we just may track down a link for you, or use your suggestion as Link of the Week.

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Article Spotlight: Serious Fun: Here are the Mountain Xpress stories behind three recent events designed to entertain, but inspired by some weighty community issues. There's Putting the party back in politics by Alli Marshall, Lord of the gadflies by Cindy Burda and Doing it for themselves by Jennifer Carlile.

 

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