Every week, Yonder Radio brings rural conversations with national reach to listeners around the country.
This week, we start off with a conversation with reporter Kaitlyn McConnell about a small town in Missouri that is recovering after a tornado hit last year. The town’s museum is working hard to keep its history alive despite the destruction. Then we head to the Midwest with Arts Midwest reporter Frankie Felegy to hear about a town that hosts a festival to celebrate the birthday of a local owl.
We’ll also take a trip around the world with travel writer Rolf Potts, interviewed by Susannah Broun, who gives insight on how to represent rural places in writing and storytelling.
June is Pride Month and to celebrate, we have a conversation with Daily Yonder data reporter Sarah Melotte and producer Ilana Newman about the importance of representation in data and how much data exists about rural queer people (spoiler alert, not much). After that, we’ll hear a story from Wisconsin contributor Donna Kallner about postmarks and the U.S. Postal Service.
From our partners at ICT, we bring you an interview by reporter Pauly Denetclaw about the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling on birthright citizenship and how it could affect Native American Tribes.
Our featured artist this week is Nico Albert Williams, an Indigenous musician who is part of the metal band Medicine Horse. Tune in this week to hear all this and more on Yonder Radio!
Yonder Radio is available across all digital platforms, and on air with partner radio stations around the country. If you’re a station interested in broadcasting Yonder Radio, sign up below or get in contact with the team at joel@ruralstrategies.org.
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What?
Yonder Radio is a new, free, hour-long show that is fresh every week and designed to help fill programming gaps. We’ll feature nuanced stories that represent the 60 million people who live in rural America, and the distinct communities they call home.
Each week will start with a news round-up: think of this as the top headlines read through a rural lens. For instance, how does a government shutdown affect federal workers living in rural communities? Or, what do changes in Medicare policy mean for small town hospitals? We’ll also talk with reporters for in-depth but conversational segments going beyond the headlines, exploring their coverage on topics shaping rural communities. We’ll highlight how these stories unfold across different regions, offering local nuance with a broader perspective.
Yonder Radio is not just news. It’s also a show focused on rural lives and livelihoods. That means weekly human-interest stories, hearing from hunters, farmers, gardeners, and shopkeepers; conversations with artists supporting and reimagining traditions; performances by regional musicians; and vibrant analysis of rural representation in pop culture. Add in a round of engaging trivia, and you’ve got a show that’s as rich and varied as the places it comes from.
Why?
Public media just took a $1.1 billion hit, thanks to recent Congressional cuts, and as we’ve all seen, it’s rural broadcasters that bear the brunt. And even before these cuts, the rural communities we all cover have felt the consequences of a media landscape transformed by conglomerates, consolidation, and the declining resources available to local outlets.
Yonder Radio is designed to fill programming gaps for those stations struggling to find quality content. It will be formatted to fit stations’ needs with internal breaks built in. The show gives stations an accessible, flexible, high-quality hour of content every week.
Who?
Yonder Radio is produced by the Center for Rural Strategies, publisher of the Daily Yonder. Centering rural stories with nuance, context, and care has made the Daily Yonder the nation’s preeminent source for rural news for nearly two decades. Rural Strategies’ additional programs, including Rural Assembly, Rural Faith Initiative, and Living Traditions, will provide enriching voices and stories to this collaborative radio show. Yonder Radio is hosted by Jared Ewy, a veteran radio personality and regular contributor to the Daily Yonder.
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