Tryon Daily Bulletin
{{Short description|Newspaper in Tyron, North Carolina}}
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| type = Daily newspaper
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| owners = Boone Newspapers
| publisher = Jeff Allison
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| foundation = 1928
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| language = American English
| headquarters = 16 North Trade Street
Tryon, North Carolina, U.S.
| publishing_country = United States
| circulation = 4,200
| oclc = 11921827
| website = {{URL|tryondailybulletin.com}}
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Tryon Daily Bulletin is an American, English language daily newspaper based in Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina; it also serves parts of Spartanburg and Greenville counties in South Carolina.{{Cite web|url=http://www.inlandpress.org/stories/user-generated-content-is-all-the-rave-but-its-old-hat-for-nc-paper,6906?|title=User-generated content is all the rave, but it's old hat for N.C. paper|last=Finkler|first=Michelle|date=2009-08-02|website=Inland Press Association|access-date=2020-01-17}}
History
Known as "The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper", it was established in 1928 by Seth Vining Sr.{{cite web|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042206/|title=Tryon Daily Bulletin|website=Library of Congress|access-date=January 14, 2020}}{{cite web |url=http://www.tryondailybulletin.com/services/our-history/ |title=Tryon Daily Bulletin, History |website=Tryon Daily Bulletin|access-date=January 14, 2020}} It had a readership of 4,250 in 2019 and its website had 30,000 visitors.{{Cite book|title=Editor & Publisher DataBook (Dailies)|publisher=Editor & Publisher Magazine|year=2019|location=Florida|pages=I-218}}
Jeff Byrd purchased the paper in 1989 and sold it in 2010 to Boone Newspapers Inc. of Tuscaloosa, Ala.{{Cite web|url=https://www.goupstate.com/article/20100821/News/605160610|title=Tryon Daily Bulletin changes owners, keeping a local focus|last=Glancy|first=Gary|date=2010-08-21|website=GoUpstate|language=en|access-date=2020-01-17}}
Its offices are housed in the Bank of Tryon Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.{{NRISref|version=2010a}}{{Cite web | author =Clay Griffith| title =Bank of Tryon Building| work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date =August 2007 | url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/PL0057.pdf | format = pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | access-date = 2015-02-01}}
The paper doesn't carry any wire stories; as its publisher, Jeff Byrd, said in 1993, "It's all local. It's a community paper. That's what people want here."{{Cite book|title=Community Journalism: Relentlessly Local|last=Lauterer|first=Jock|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|year=2006|isbn=978-0-8078-5629-1|pages=364}} It features columns from 15 local residents, reader photos, a large letters to the editor section and a community calendar.
See also
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Category:Polk County, North Carolina
Category:1928 establishments in North Carolina
Category:Daily newspapers published in North Carolina
Category:Newspapers established in 1928
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