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Rural America: Legal and Interdisciplinary Research Guide

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Select Rural News Publications

This page covers rural news publications and West Virginia news sources.

100 Days in Appalachia is the independent nonprofit newsroom of Appalachia Free Press in partnership with The Rural Digital Resilience Project. 

An award-winning news site dedicated to critical thinking about the American food system. Civil Eats' mission is to broaden and deepen the conversation around food and agriculture, amplify underrepresented voices, hold power–both government officials and corporations–to account, and inspire a more equitable, sustainable future.

High Country News is a monthly independent magazine based in Paonia, Colorado, that covers environmental, social, and political issues in the Western United States.

ICT is an independent, nonprofit, multimedia news enterprise. We reach audiences through our digital platform and as a broadcast carried via public television stations. ICT covers Indigenous peoples.

Investigate Midwest is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our mission is to serve the public as a watchdog over influential agricultural corporations and institutions through in-depth and data-driven investigative journalism.

Native News Online delivers important daily news that affects the lives of Native Americans nationwide. Founded in 2011, Native News Online reaches millions of Native and non-Native readers annually including American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and others interested in Native American concerns.

The Rural News Network is a project of the Institute for Nonprofit News, a resource hub for more than 475 nonprofit newsrooms dedicated to producing journalism as a public service.

Through journalism and storytelling, Scalawag works in solidarity with oppressed communities in the South to disrupt and shift the narratives that keep power and wealth in the hands of the few. Collectively, we pursue a more liberated South. 

A beacon from the American South and a bellwether for the nation, The Bitter Southerner is an Athens, Ga.-based independent media company, founded in 2013, that connects an activated and vocal global community working to make the South, and America, a better place.

The Daily Yonder provides news, commentary, and analysis about and for rural America.

A digest of events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism from and about rural America, by the Institute for Rural Journalism, based at the University of Kentucky. 

Through rigorous reporting on the positive ways communities are responding to social problems and insightful commentary that sparks constructive discourse, YES! Media inspires people to build a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world. This publication has a strong focus on rural U.S. issues.

West Virginia News Sources

Charleston Gazette-Mail

Dominion Post

West Virginia Newspapers Portal 

Access to select West Virginia newspapers is provided free of charge courtesy of Potomac State College & Mary F. Shipper Library.

West Virginia Newspapers (Newsbank) 

Includes the Dominion Post (Morgantown), Charleston Gazette, Charleston Daily Mail, Herald Dispatch (Huntington). Provided by the West Virginia Library Commission with funds from the WV State Legislature and the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Institute of Library and Museum Services.