High Country News

High Country News
Editor-in-chiefJennifer Sahn[1]
Former editorsBrian Calvert
FrequencyMonthly
Circulation36,000
PublisherGreg Hanscom
Founded1970 (1970)
CountryUnited States
Based inPaonia, Colorado
Websitehcn.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]

  1. ^ "High Country News welcomes Jennifer Sahn as editor-in-chief". High Country News. March 29, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "About Us". High Country News.
  3. ^ "All Stories by High Country News". The Atlantic. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  4. ^ Schrock, Lillian (August 31, 2016). "Famed Wyoming conservationist Tom Bell dies in Lander". Casper Star Tribune. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  5. ^ Calvert, Brian (April 4, 2019). "Why we're building coverage by, from and for Indigenous audiences". High Country News. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
  6. ^ Gray, Haley (October 15, 2020). "Can High Country News Rewrite the Narrative of the West?". 5280. Retrieved September 13, 2021.