100 Days in Appalachia is a collaborative nonprofit newsroom. We prioritize working with other publications on creating new content, but know that ours aren’t the only voices in the region, so we also work to bring more attention to the work of our partners. We invite other media outlets to […]
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I drove to the polls on Election Day not knowing what to expect. I decided not to vote early, despite the many texts urging me to do so. I didn’t make this decision out of fear that my vote was in danger of not being counted, but because I’m not […]
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“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say, ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.” ― Fred Rogers The sun […]
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Over the course of the last few years, I’ve had conversations with dozens of young people about everything from activating peers to be politically engaged in politically-apathetic areas, to the importance of student voice in schools, to the urgency of the youth vote. I always try to conclude those interviews […]
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Four years ago, our country was in the midst of one of the most divisive elections in history — one that deepened the divide between rural and urban America. Misrepresentations and overgeneralizations in national media coverage contributed to a homogenized, simplified portrayal of Appalachia – but that’s not a new […]
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When CNHI closed two newspapers in northeast Kentucky, the former employees weren’t ready to quit. As a one-man reporter for two newspapers in Carter County, Kentucky, Jeremy Wells never had time to cover school board meetings. Wells was an hourly employee for CNHI, the corporate entity that owned Grayson Journal-Enquirer […]
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