High Country News

High Country News is an independent non-profit news media source that publishes a magazine, website and other works. The staff covers issues facing the  Western United States, and includes a tribal affairs desk. Located in Paonia, Colorado, High Country News is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation. 

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.

Funding 
High Country News has more than 35,000 subscribers. 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.

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):
 Utne Reader magazine's 2013 Utne Media Award for Best Environmental Coverage
 2013 National Association of Science Writers' 2013 Science in Society Award
 2012 Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism
 The 2012 Science in Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers
 The 2012 Society of Environmental Journalists Awards, Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small Market
 2011 Excellence in Journalism Awards from the Native American Journalists Association
 The Native American Journalists Association Best Environmental Story of 2010 (monthly/bimonthly category)
 Utne Reader magazine's 2010 Utne Independent Press Award for Environmental Coverage
 The 2010 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism
 The 2009 Society of Environmental Journalists Awards, Outstanding Small Market Reporting, Print category
 The 2008 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism
 The 2006 George Polk Award for Political Reporting

References

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 Utne Media Award Winners

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Category:Environmental magazines
Category:Environment of the United States
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