The Daily Yonder is the preeminent online platform for news, information, and storytelling about and for rural America.

The Center for Rural Strategies launched the Daily Yonder in 2007 to:

  1. inform rural Americans and the people who care about rural communities about important issues, and

  2. build bridges between rural and urban communities in ways that strengthen both.

Today, the Daily Yonder reaches more than a million people each year through original reporting, a radio newscast that is broadcast on hundreds of radio stations each week, and partnerships with other news organizations around the world.

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— Nieman Journalism Lab