The Daily Yonder provides news, commentary, and analysis about and for rural America.
We welcome photos, tips, observations, and links to stories about rural America. Send us stories about what you’ve seen, heard or witnessed.
Our Team
Editor Emeritus
Tim Marema
Norris, TN
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Publisher
Dee Davis
Whitesburg, KY
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Contributing Editor
Bill Bishop
LaGrange, TX
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Senior News Editor
Jan Pytalski
Roseburg, OR
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Senior Digital Editor
Caroline Carlson
Minneapolis, MN
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Data Editor
Sarah Melotte
Hendersonville, NC
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Multimedia Producer
Anya Petrone Slepyan
Santa Fe, NM
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Visual Editor
Ilana Newman
Mancos, CO
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Reporter and Engagement Coordinator
Madeline de Figueiredo
Austin, TX
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Assistant News Editor
Christiana Wayne
Chapel Hill, NC
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Multimedia Producer
Julia Tilton
Washington, DC
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Outreach & Marketing
Will Wright
Richmond, VA
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Multimedia Producer
Susannah Broun
Washington, DC
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Correspondent
Claire Carlson
Minneapolis, MN
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Digital Editor
Lane Wendell Fischer
Ellis, KS
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Correspondent
Tracy Staley
Dayton, OH
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Correspondent
Whitney Kimball Coe
New Haven, CT
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Chief of Staff
Adam B. Giorgi
Minneapolis, MN
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Multimedia Director
Joel Cohen
Somerville, MA
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Accounting
Teresa Collins
Whitesburg, KY
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Marketing
Chris Poore
Lexington, KY
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Contributor
Donna Kallner
White Lake, WI
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Liz Carey
Versailles, KY
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Keith Roysdon
Knoxville, TN
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Sara June Jo-Sæbo
Southwest Virginia
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Charles Hayslett
Decatur, GA
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Olivia Weeks
West Frankfort, IL
Want to join our team?
We’re always looking for new contributors to join our roster of rural storytellers. We accept freelance submissions and also have a fellowship program for emerging rural journalists.
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Donor Transparency
The Daily Yonder is published by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Center for Rural Strategies. The Daily Yonder operates independently from other Rural Strategies projects and personnel in making editorial decisions. Dee Davis, president of the Center for Rural Strategies, is publisher of the Daily Yonder. Editorial decisions are the purview of the news staff, directed by the editor, Tim Marema.
The Daily Yonder and its parent organization, the Center for Rural Strategies, are committed to transparency in every aspect of funding our organization.
Accepting financial support does not mean the Daily Yonder endorses donors or their products, services or opinions.
Current Major Donors
Current supporters that have contributed at least $5,000 to the Daily Yonder are the following:
- Acton Family Foundation
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Carnegie Corporation
- Chorus Foundation
- Hearst Foundations
- Hearthland Foundation
- Henry Luce Foundation
- Impact Assets
- Lilly Endowment
- LOR Foundation
- Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies
- The Miami Foundation (via NewsMatch)
- Nathan Cummings Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Scripps Howard Foundation
- Waterman II Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation
- Amelia Pickering
- And readers like you.
Statement of Editorial Independence
The Daily Yonder subscribes to standards of editorial independence adopted by the Institute for Nonprofit News and has a 100% rating from NewsGuard, an independent organization that assesses the credibility and transparency of news and information websites.
The Daily Yonder retains full authority over editorial content to protect the best journalistic and business interests of our organization. We maintain a firewall between news coverage decisions and sources of all revenue. Acceptance of financial support does not constitute implied or actual endorsement of donors or their products, services or opinions.
We accept gifts, grants and sponsorships from individuals and organizations for the general support of our activities, but our news judgments are made independently and not on the basis of donor support.
The Daily Yonder may consider donations to support the coverage of particular topics, but we maintain editorial control of the coverage. We will cede no right of review or influence of editorial content, nor of unauthorized distribution of editorial content.
Our organization will make public all donors who give a total of $5,000 or more per year. We will accept anonymous donations for general support only if it is clear that sufficient safeguards have been put into place that the expenditure of that donation is made independently by our organization and in compliance with INN’s Membership Standards.
The Daily Yonder’s financial information are included in the 990 filing of the Center for Rural Strategies. The latest 990 is available here.