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Dear friend,
Our mission at the Daily Yonder is to write stories about and for rural America. That means we don’t just write for our own audience – we write for people who may not have heard of us, and in doing so we support local newspapers, radio stations, and other outlets whose coverage is vital to their communities.
Here’s the idea:
Daily Yonder stories are never behind a paywall, always free to republish, and they go far and wide. Our articles have appeared in outlets like the The Boston Globe and the Associated Press, but just as importantly, they’ve appeared in smaller newsrooms like The Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg, Kentucky, and The Anniston Star in Alabama, and in the Culpeper Star-Exponent in Virginia. The list goes on.
Audience and Marketing Specialist, Will Wright. (Photo by Ilana Newman/The Daily Yonder)
We’re committed to lifting up rural communities not just by telling their stories in the Yonder, but also by offering relevant, quality content to local media outlets. From audio and video stories to written articles and opinion columns, we make our work available in an effort to help fill the gaps. We can’t cover every town hall in every rural county, but we can cover the state of healthcare in rural Texas, carbon credits helping landowners in Maine, community resilience hubs in rural Appalachia, the risks mobile home residents face as severe weather events increase, and so much more.
It’s easy to feel wistful about the “good old days” when newsrooms were packed with copy editors, designers, and ever-ringing telephones. Certainly times have changed, but all across rural America, small town papers continue to publish stories that matter.
So does the Daily Yonder. By supporting us, you’re supporting newsrooms around the country, where our stories reach readers who want and deserve nuanced, quality reporting about rural America.
Right now, all reader donations are being matched by generous matching grants, meaning your gifts are twice as powerful. We hope you will consider making a donation. Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Will Wright
Audience and Marketing Specialist
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Thanks to support from the Wyncote Foundation, the Rural Partner Fund, and other generous donors, contributions from individuals are eligible to be matched up to $1,000 per donor from November 1 to December 31, 2025. New monthly recurring donations are matched at the 12-month value of the donation, up to $1,000. For more details about eligibility see NewsMatch guidelines.
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