Local journalism in the U.S. remains at a crisis point: newsrooms that existed for decades have vanished or are at risk of disappearing. At the same time, there are urgent external crises that make the need for communities to receive information all the more critical – namely climate change.
The Rural Newswire exists in order to help provide resources to newsrooms that serve rural communities. For editors and publishers looking for editorial support, all of our stories are free to redistribute, republish, and share.
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04/25/2025
45 Degrees North: The Ice Storm Election
Here's the story of $100 million in campaign spending and how systems that secure our elections work in a rural area — even when the sky is falling.
04/25/2025
Preserving Cherokee Language Ten Books at a Time
A collaboration between the New Kituwah Academy and Western Carolina University produces screen-printed books for learning Cherokee in a way that captures and reflects cultural sensibilities of the Tribe.
04/24/2025
Commentary: Rural Americans Need the Trump Administration to Provide an Additional Path to Fight Obesity
By expanding and providing federal coverage of obesity medications and other proven treatments, Trump’s administration would make a first, crucial step in helping stem obesity, hurting millions in America.
04/24/2025
Introducing ‘Twang’: Telling The Story of Country Music Like it is
In a new podcast from Rural Remix, reporter Lane Wendell Fischer explores country music's origins and evolution from the 1927 Bristol Sessions to Beyonce's Cowboy Carter.
04/23/2025
Amid Ongoing Threats to Local Food Systems, Alaska Native and Rural Alaskan Leaders Imagine Alternatives
Cascading environmental, economic, and political factors are making it increasingly challenging to put food on the table in rural Alaska. These communities are looking to the past, and the future, for solutions.
04/23/2025
Commentary: Rural America Needs Investment, Not Abandonment
Rural economies depend on access to healthy public lands. Congress has been gutting land-management agencies and is now talking about selling off these public assets to private investors.
04/23/2025
America Is Not Immune to Fascism
Donald Trump is trying to dismantle the entire government.
04/22/2025
Commentary: If Democracy Collapses in America, It Won’t Be the First Time
Anti-democratic efforts are not new in America. We don’t have to import history lessons from abroad to learn of dangers and atrocities a successful collapse of democracy can bring.
04/21/2025
Wildlife, not livestock: Why the Eastern Shoshone in Wyoming are reclassifying buffalo
"Bringing the buffalo back is about our relationship with them, not domination over them."
04/21/2025
Migration to Rural America Resulted in Population Growth Last Year, Census Shows
Rural America continues to grow for the fourth consecutive year.
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