The Rural West Initiative
The Rural West Initiative aims to create a unique collaboration between journalists and scholars to investigate the forces transforming the rural West. We are generating reports and stories ourselves and are commissioning more from reporters and academics across the West. Our work uses extensive data visualization as well as text, video, and still photography to tell our stories. To further invigorate a wide-ranging public conversation, we are partnering with a number of publications and websites, some old, some young, who are talking about the state of the rural West and its prospects for the future.
Project Website
Funders
Spencer F. & Cleone P. Eccles Family Foundation
Dates
2009-News and Recent Posts
- Are Western Communities Getting a Fair Return on Energy Development?
- Call for Participants: Rural West Conference in October 2012
- Center Convenes First Conference on the Rural West
- Exploring Fallowing Agreements and the Rural-Urban Water Conflict
- Health Care in the Rural West: Persistent Problems, Glimmers of Hope
- Innovation in Preserving Agricultural Lands
- Join the Radio Conversation: Community Newspapers and the Rural West
- Mapping Journalism’s Journey West
- Rural West Initiative's John McChesney Reports on North Dakota Oil Boom on NPR
- Theodore Roosevelt’s Elkhorn Ranch, the “Walden Pond of the West,” Threatened by North Dakota’s Oil Boom
- Using Comics to Explain Complex Water Issues
- Using Visualization to Analyze the Growth of the American West
- Video Report Examines Role of Energy Boom's "Fugitive Emissions" in Ozone Problems
- Watch “Myths About the Transcontinentals”
- With Digital Tools, Enhancing a Western Photography Exhibit
Related
- An Unquiet Landscape: The American West's New Energy Frontier
- Conference on the Rural West: Complete Audio
- Conference Tackles Tough Issues in the Rural West
- Data Visualization: Changing U.S. Demographics
- Data Visualization: Journalism's Voyage West
- Interview with Pat Mulroy, Southern Nevada Water Authority
- Rural West Initiative Story on NPR: "Oil Boom Puts Strain On North Dakota Towns"
- Rural West Initiative Story on NPR: "Roosevelt's Badlands Ranch Faces Potential Threat"
- The New Western Fugitives: Ozone Ingredients from Oil and Gas