Every week, Yonder Radio brings rural conversations with national reach to listeners around the country.
This week, our top news story is about mental health practitioners providing virtual crisis care to rural residents in South Dakota. Daily Yonder reporter Madeline de Figueiredo explains how these practitioners, working with law enforcement, are able to intervene during emergencies. We also hear from blacksmiths in Appalachia who started a program to turn modern-day swords into plowshares — people bring guns and learn how to turn them into garden tools and art pieces with RAWtools South.
Next, Anya Petrone Slepyan and Susannah Broun celebrate Earth Day by discussing what alien movies teach us about environmental anxieties here on Earth, and reporter Julia Tilton brings us an update on data center development in souther Virginia. We then head to the Pacific Northwest to hear a story from ICT News about salmon returning to the upper Klamath River after dams were removed. And throughout the episode, we’ll hear music and conversation with Sparrow Smith, one part of the Resonant Rogues and a solo artist from western North Carolina.
This week, we’re also featuring podcaster Megan Torgerson, the storyteller behind Reframing Rural. Torgerson’s podcast challenges mainstream stereotypes about rural places by introducing listeners to people, history and cultures that don’t always get the spotlight. Reporter Ilana Newman talks with Torgerson about Succession Stories, the fourth season of Reframing Rural. The season follows five Montana farm and ranch families as they navigate complex social and environmental factors while working to pass on their operations to the next generation.
You can find all episodes of Reframing Rural’s Succession Stories on Rural Remix, another podcast from Rural Strategies.
Join us for all that and more on this week’s episode of Yonder Radio.
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More Information About Yonder Radio
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. Yonder Radio 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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