High Country News

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High Country News
High Country News logo.png
Editor-in-chiefJennifer Sahn [1]
Former editorsBrian Calvert
FrequencyMonthly
Circulation 36,000
PublisherGreg Hanscom
Founded1970 (1970)
Country United States
Based in Paonia, Colorado
Website hcn.org
ISSN 0191-5657

High Country News is a monthly independent magazine based in Paonia, Colorado, that covers environmental, social, and political issues in the Western United States. [2] Syndicated stories from High Country News have appeared in The New York Times , The Atlantic , Rolling Stone , and other national publications. [2] [3] The non-profit High Country News media organization also produces a website, special reports, and books.

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Tom Bell, a Wyoming conservationist, rancher, and decorated World War II bombardier, started a newspaper in 1970 that would become the High Country News. He died at the age of 92 in 2016 in Lander, Wyoming, where he had founded High Country News. [4]

In 2017, High Country News became the first non-Native American publication to establish an Indigenous Affairs desk as part of an effort to attract new readers and improve their coverage of Native American issues. [5] [6]

Funding

High Country News has more than 35,000 subscribers. [2] In 2017, it received approximately 43% of its income from donations, 29% from subscriptions, 5% from advertising, and the balance from syndication and other sources. [7]

Recognition

According to a review in The Christian Science Monitor , the paper "is closely read in congressional offices and state houses, as well as in the government agencies that control most of the rural West. It has broken important stories subsequently picked up by the New York Times and other national media." [8] Former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt described the paper as "the only place where you can really know what's happening in the rest of the West." [8]

High Country News has received numerous journalism and environmental awards, including (but not limited to):

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  5. Calvert, Brian (April 4, 2019). "Why we're building coverage by, from and for Indigenous audiences". High Country News. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
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