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Introduction
The 18 counties of Western North Carolina are covered with enthusiasm and expertise by the award-winning Asheville Citizen-Times journalism staff. The diverse Asheville Citizen-Times newsroom teams veteran reporters, editors, photographers and specialists with recent journalism school graduates to bring the citizens of Western North Carolina the very best in community-based coverage. The Asheville Citizen-Times been awarded top honors for ongoing achievement as the primary source for news and information in Western North Carolina.
Among honors recently awarded to the Asheville Citizen-Times newsroom are:
• 2002 Most Improved Newspaper/Best of Gannett (runner up)
• 2002 Investigative Reporting/Best of Gannett (third place)
• 2002 NC Press Association Public Service Award (runner up)
• 2002 Tim Parker Award NC Associated Press
• 2002 Top Well Done for coverage of the one year anniversary of Sept. 11
• 2002 15 Gannett Well Done Awards, including 1st place for Public Service (Ethan's Story), 1st Place for Investigative Reporting(Cherokee County Jail), 1st place for Daily Enterprise Reporting (Statewide Jail story)
• 2002 NC Press Association 2nd Place for Humorous Columns (John Boyle)
• 2002 NC Press Association 3rd Place for Feature Writing (Susan Reinhardt)
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