High Country News

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High Country News
High Country News logo.png
Editor-in-chiefJennifer Sahn[1]
Former editorsBrian Calvert
FrequencyMonthly
Circulation36,000
PublisherGreg Hanscom
Year founded1970 (1970)
CountryUnited States
Based inPaonia, Colorado
Websitewww.hcn.org
ISSN0191-5657

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.

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):

  • 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

References[]

  1. ^ "High Country News welcomes Jennifer Sahn as editor-in-chief". High Country News. 29 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "About Us". High Country News.
  3. ^ "All Stories by High Country News". The Atlantic. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  4. ^ Schrock, Lillian (31 August 2016). "Famed Wyoming conservationist Tom Bell dies in Lander". Casper Star Tribune. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  5. ^ Calvert, Brian (4 April 2019). "Why we're building coverage by, from and for Indigenous audiences". High Country News. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  6. ^ Gray, Haley (15 October 2020). "Can High Country News Rewrite the Narrative of the West?". 5280. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  7. ^ "Internal Revenue Service Form 990 Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax".
  8. ^ a b Knickerbocker, Brad (11 July 1991). "A Paper's Scrapping Western Crusade". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  9. ^ a b "Past George Polk Award Winners". Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  10. ^ "The 2018 James Beard Media Award Winners". www.jamesbeard.org. Archived from the original on 2018-04-28. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  11. ^ "Winners of the 2013 UtneMedia Awards".
  12. ^ "2013 Science in Society Journalism Award winners". Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  13. ^ "Winners of the Knight-Risser Prize". Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  14. ^ "2012 Science in Society Journalism Award winners". Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  15. ^ "Winners of the 2010 Utne Independent Press Awards". Archived from the original on 13 April 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
  16. ^ a b "The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees - Magazine Category". Retrieved 13 September 2021.

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