High Country News

High Country News is a website and bi-weekly newspaper focused on the West. It reports on natural resources, public lands, wildlife, growth, resource management, and extraction, as well as the region’s changing communities. This grant would support that coverage and provide resources for the organization to expand its audience by increasing its digital media capacity (with tablet and wireless phone applications) and its social media and e-newsletter networks. Reaching a broader audience will create a larger and more informed community of readers better able to address core western issues in their own communities.

High Country News is a website and biweekly newspaper focused on the West. It reports on natural resources, public lands, wildlife, growth, resource management and extraction, as well as the region’s changing communities. This grant would build on progress already made toward adapting to the digital world in substantive and technological ways. High Country News has engaged a growing online readership through daily stories focused on breaking events, writer and editor blogs, enhanced multimedia storytelling, iPhone and iPad applications, and social media. Over the next two years, it will continue to connect with its readers by further strengthening its editorial and marketing teams across digital platforms.