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High Country News

American magazine

Summary

American magazine

Field	Value
image_size
title	High Country News
image_file	High Country News logo.png
editor_title	Editor-in-chief
editor	Jennifer Sahn
previous_editor	Brian Calvert
frequency	Monthly
circulation	36,000
publisher	Greg Hanscom
founded
country	United States
based	Paonia, Colorado
website
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. Syndicated stories from High Country News have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and other national publications. 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.

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.

Funding

High Country News has more than 35,000 subscribers.

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." 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."

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

2020 George Polk Award for Education Reporting for "Land Grab Universities" by Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee
2018 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards, Foodways category, for "The Teenage Whaler's Tale" by Julia O'Malley
2013 Utne Reader magazine's Utne Media Award for Best Environmental Coverage
2013 National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award, Science Reporting for a Local or Regional Audience category for "The Color of Bunny" by Hillary Rosner
2012 Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism 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, 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
2010 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism 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
2006 George Polk Award for Political Reporting for "Death in the Energy Fields" by Ray Ring

References

(March 29, 2021). "High Country News welcomes Jennifer Sahn as editor-in-chief".
"About Us".
"All Stories by High Country News". The Atlantic.
Schrock, Lillian. (August 31, 2016). "Famed Wyoming conservationist Tom Bell dies in Lander". Casper Star Tribune.
Calvert, Brian. (April 4, 2019). "Why we’re building coverage by, from and for Indigenous audiences". High Country News.
Gray, Haley. (October 15, 2020). "Can High Country News Rewrite the Narrative of the West?". 5280.
(July 11, 1991). "A Paper's Scrapping Western Crusade". The Christian Science Monitor.
"Past George Polk Award Winners".
"The 2018 James Beard Media Award Winners".
"Winners of the 2013 UtneMedia Awards".
"2013 Science in Society Journalism Award winners".
"Winners of the Knight-Risser Prize".
"2012 Science in Society Journalism Award winners".
"Winners of the 2010 Utne Independent Press Awards".
"The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees - Magazine Category".

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