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Revision as of 21:46, 16 October 2013
| Executive Director/ Publisher | Paul Larmer |
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| Frequency | Biweekly |
| Circulation | 25,000 |
| First issue | 1970 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Paonia, Colorado |
| Website | www |
High Country News is a non profit media source, publishing an award-winning magazine, a popular website and a weekly op-ed column service, along with special reports and books. The news organization covers the American West's public lands, water, natural resources, grazing, wilderness, wildlife, logging, politics, communities, growth and other issues now changing the face of the Western United States.
Mission
Founded in 1970 in Wyoming by rancher and environmentalist, Tom Bell, High Country News is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation. Located in Paonia, Colorado, its mission is to inform and inspire people - through in-depth journalism - to act on behalf of the West's diverse natural and human communities.
Funding
With 25,000 subscribers, High Country News receives 37% of its income from subscriptions, 26% from grants, 22% from donations, 10% from advertising, and 5% from syndication and other assorted sources.[citation needed]
Recognition
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 [1]
- 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.[1]
- 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
- ^ a b "Winners of the 2013 UtneMedia Awards". Cite error: The named reference "utne" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
External links
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