High Country News
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High Country News is a monthly independent magazine based in
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
High Country News has received numerous journalism and environmental awards, including (but not limited to):
- 2020 George Polk Award for Education Reporting[9]for "Land Grab Universities" by Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee
- 2018 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards, Foodways category,[10] for "The Teenage Whaler's Tale" by Julia O'Malley
- 2013 Utne Reader magazine's Utne Media Award for Best Environmental Coverage[11]
- 2013 National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award, Science Reporting for a Local or Regional Audience category[12] for "The Color of Bunny" by Hillary Rosner
- 2012 Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism[13] for "Perilous Passages" by Emilene Ostlind and Joe Riis
- 2012 National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award, Science Reporting for a Local or Regional Audience category,[14] for "Perilous Passages" by Emilene Ostlind, Mary Ellen Hannibal, and Cally Carswell
- 2012 Society of Environmental Journalists Awards, Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small Market
- 2011 Excellence in Journalism Awards from the Native American Journalists Association
- 2010 Native American Journalists Association Best Environmental Story of 2010 (monthly/bimonthly category)
- 2010 Utne Reader magazine's Utne Independent Press Award for Environmental Coverage[15]
- 2010 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism[16]for "The Dark Side of Dairies" by Rebecca Clarren
- 2009 Society of Environmental Journalists Awards, Outstanding Small Market Reporting, Print category
- 2008 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism[16]
- 2006 George Polk Award for Political Reporting[9] for "Death in the Energy Fields" by Ray Ring
See also
- Institute for Nonprofit News (member)
References
- ^ "High Country News welcomes Jennifer Sahn as editor-in-chief". High Country News. March 29, 2021.
- ^ a b c "About Us". High Country News.
- ^ "All Stories by High Country News". The Atlantic. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
- ^ Schrock, Lillian (August 31, 2016). "Famed Wyoming conservationist Tom Bell dies in Lander". Casper Star Tribune. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
- ^ Calvert, Brian (April 4, 2019). "Why we're building coverage by, from and for Indigenous audiences". High Country News. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
- ^ Gray, Haley (October 15, 2020). "Can High Country News Rewrite the Narrative of the West?". 5280. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
- ^ "Internal Revenue Service Form 990 Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax".
- ^ a b Knickerbocker, Brad (July 11, 1991). "A Paper's Scrapping Western Crusade". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
- ^ a b "Past George Polk Award Winners". Retrieved September 13, 2021.
- ^ "The 2018 James Beard Media Award Winners". www.jamesbeard.org. Archived from the original on April 28, 2018. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
- ^ "Winners of the 2013 UtneMedia Awards".
- ^ "2013 Science in Society Journalism Award winners". Retrieved September 13, 2021.
- ^ "Winners of the Knight-Risser Prize". Retrieved September 13, 2021.
- ^ "2012 Science in Society Journalism Award winners". Retrieved September 13, 2021.
- ^ "Winners of the 2010 Utne Independent Press Awards". Archived from the original on March 21, 2012. Retrieved October 27, 2010.
- ^ a b "The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees - Magazine Category". Retrieved September 13, 2021.