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Every day, rural public radio stations find innovative ways to connect audiences and deliver critical services across multiple platforms with limited resources. Read how these stations are making an impact.

Through the West’s Worst Fire Season in Years, Local Public Media Keeps their Communities Informed 

In Paonia, CO and Salt Lake City, UT, KVNF and KUER’s two small newsrooms are covering a fast-moving disaster. Their reporters describe what it takes.

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Marfa Public Radio Fills The Gaps Across A Wide Open Big Bend

The Texas station’s approach to supporting people across thousands of acres through the desert rests on knowing what’s happening close to home.
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Current: New alliance helps rural stations make a case for more funding, support

Current, the leading nonprofit news organization covering public media in the U.S., recently published a story featuring the work of the Alliance and our partner
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KSJD Has Found That If You Build A Theater, The Community Will Come

By opening the Sunflower Theater, the Cortez, CO, station and its parent organization, Community Radio Project, have built a rural arts, music, and theater scene
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North State Public Radio Is Doing Its Part to Build Back A Community After Horrific Wildfires

After deadly wildfires devastated nearby communities, the Chico, CA-based organization built a reporting beat to track recovery efforts and discover how to support the people
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WKMS Reflects On Its Commitment to the Community After A Devastating Series of Tornadoes

After a surge of tornados ravaged Kentucky in late 2021, the Murray-based station found its purpose in an area who needed to be heard as
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Mississippi Public Broadcasting Is Showing What Exactly Mississippi Radio Is

For a media organization covering a state that’s almost entirely rural, its stations dig deep with shows that highlight a wide range of voices across
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As Local News Sources Dwindled, WXPR Figured Out What Matters Most

When central Wisconsin found itself slowly becoming a news desert, the team at the Rhinelander station jumped into fully represent the area in everything they