Corner Post

20/01/2025

07/01/2025

Thanks to all of our generous readers and supporters of both Corner Post and The Insider (our local two-county newspaper here in Garfield and Wayne counties, Utah), Corner Post Media was able to raise $19,000 through our 2024 NewsMatch campaign!

That means, thanks to individual donations and matches from both NewsMatch and the Rural Partner Fund, we raised a total of $37,000 in support of regional and local journalism.

So thanks to you, we reached—and surpassed—our $15,000 donation goal. In all we received individual gifts of almost $11,000 for Corner Post. This support from individual donors, in addition to the matching gifts, will help us produce stories that support our mission of digging deep into the intersection of culture and land.

What an incredible start to 2025. We are amazed and incredibly grateful for all of the contributions that we have received.

It is hard work building a media organization, but we believe that it is work worth doing, and we couldn't do this without you!

Corner Post Media was among over 400 nonprofit media organizations participating in NewsMatch. Your contribution is part of a much larger effort to support local reporting produced by many different kinds of media outlets across the country.

Thanks for being a part of the movement to support local journalism.

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31/12/2024

We are so fortunate for the support we've received for Corner Post Media through readers of Corner Post and readers of The Insider newspaper. Altogether, our community has helped us surpass our 2024 NewsMatch fundraising goal of $15,000, and helped us raise $18,355.96!

But there are still a few hours to go in 2024 before our campaign closes at midnight.

To build on our success, we've set a stretch goal of $19,000. Right now, small donations—$5, $25, $50 or a donation of any size, will serve as the icing on our 2024 NewsMatch Campaign cake! Your donation today—and through midnight tonight—will give us a strong start to 2025.

Donations to Corner Post will support in-depth, regional journalism on issues related to culture and land across the Colorado Plateau.

And thank you so much to all who have supported us and made our campaign a great success.

Support Colorado Plateau journalism TODAY!

https://cornerpost.org/donate-to-corner-post/

24/12/2024

In a little over a week, we will herald in the new year, which marks the end of our 2024 NewsMatch fundraising campaign. That means that you have 8 days left to double the impact of your donation to Corner Post Media, and we are only $1,325 shy of our goal of $15,000 by December 31!

We're extremely grateful for all of the support we've received—from individuals like you who see a future of quality journalism as an important service to our region.

Your donation today—and through December 31 (for gifts of up to $1,000 per donor)—will go towards funding grassroots, regional reporting that serves the people who live in and love the Colorado Plateau. If we meet our goal of raising $15,000 from individual donors, that's $30,000 for Colorado Plateau journalism; that's a lot of impact!

Any amount—$25, $50, $100 or more—will go a long way to helping us achieve this goal.

Time is running out! Can you help us reach our goal with a donation to Corner Post Media today?

https://cornerpost.org/donate-to-corner-post/

19/12/2024

With only a little less than two weeks left to go in our 2024 NewsMatch campaign, we're asking you to help us meet our goal of raising $15,000 for Corner Post Media. We have just $2,419.09 to go! If you value grassroots, regional journalism, please think of Corner Post when you are considering your year-end gifts!

Your donation today—and through December 31 (for gifts of up to $1,000 per donor)—will be matched by NewsMatch, doubling the impact of your gift. This means that if we meet our goal of raising $15,000 from individual donors, we'll raise $30,000 for Colorado Plateau journalism.

Any amount—$20, $50, $100 or more—will go a long way to helping us achieve this goal.

(Monthly recurring donations are matched at the 12-month value of the donation, up to $1,000.)

Support Colorado Plateau journalism today!

https://cornerpost.org/donate-to-corner-post/

12/12/2024

Thanks to all who have donated to our NewsMatch campaign so far, to date, we have now raised $10,100 and are only $4,900 shy of our goal of $15,000 by December 31!

With 19 days to go until 2025, we've been reflecting on all that we have achieved, and where we're headed. We've created a small, but growing, media company committed to the future of journalism serving our region, and we're building a base of reader-supporters. Support from individuals like you is both producing our current stories and helping position our organization for future—and sustainable—growth.

It is not easy building a media company in a remote region from the ground up, but we think that it is worth the effort to create something meaningful—a nonprofit media organization that focuses on and serves the people of the Colorado Plateau region and that connects the people who live in and love this area together.

During the final few weeks of our 2024 NewsMatch campaign, we're asking you to help us meet our goal of raising $15,000 for Corner Post Media. We have just $4,900 to go!

Your donation today—and through December 31 (for gifts of up to $1,000 per donor)—will be matched by NewsMatch, doubling the impact of your gift. This means that if we meet our goal of raising $15,000 from individual donors, we'll raise $30,000 for Colorado Plateau journalism.

Any amount—$20, $50, $100 or more—will go a long way to helping us achieve this goal.

(Monthly recurring donations are matched at the 12-month value of the donation, up to $1,000.)

Donate to Corner Post TODAY!

https://cornerpost.org/donate-to-corner-post/

03/12/2024

It’s (or what we prefer to call ), which is built on the idea of radical generosity following the splurging of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. This day is all about helping our communities, showing up for issues that matter, and acknowledging our shared humanity.

You’re likely receiving a lot of emails like this one today, so why donate to Corner Post? We are a grassroots, regional media organization, which focuses on finding those stories that are most impactful to those who live on and love the Colorado Plateau region.

This —and through December 31—NewsMatch will double the impact of your gift—and every individual gift up to $1,000 per donor—to a match cap for Corner Post Media of $15,000.

We are hoping to reach a goal of raising $2,000 by the end of the day today! We have just 24 hours to reach our goal! Any size donation is valued and appreciated, from $10, $25, or $50, all the way up to the NewsMatch cap of $1,000 per individual donor.

With your help, we will reach our overall goal of $15,000 raised by December 31, 2024.

Donate to Corner Post TODAY!!

https://cornerpost.org/donate-to-corner-post/

28/11/2024

This Thanksgiving, we at Corner Post Media are grateful for all of you, our readers and supporters! For all who celebrate, we wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving!

21/11/2024

This week, we wanted to offer a story highlight as a way of sharing the value of our work, the kind of coverage we're aiming for, and how our grassroots, region-based journalism can uniquely serve the Colorado Plateau region.

Below, Erica Walz, Executive Director of Corner Post Media, has selected a Corner Post story that she found particularly impactful:

***One Corner Post story that I learned a lot from was Ian Marynowski’s report, “Travel at Your Own Risk: BLM and Garfield County continue sparring match over Hole-in-the-Rock Road.” When Garfield County placed a sign near the entrance of HITR Road near Escalante, impugning the BLM for the road’s conditions due to restrictions in “necessary improvements,” I knew there was a story there. Because Ian was here locally, he was able to spend time with Garfield County’s road crew who maintain the road, uncovering details about both the costs and physical effort that managing HITR Road entails. He also highlighted communications between BLM and Garfield County about how the BLM would allow improvements if they were under Title V of the Federal Land Policy Management Act. And I was somewhat surprised to learn that members of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance—who advocate for leaving the road unpaved—the BLM and Garfield County have taken field trips together down HITR to assess its condition, suggesting that lines of communication between these parties are more open than I’d previously thought.

This is the kind of on-the-ground reporting that I find helpful to understanding how our public lands are managed, and an example of what Corner Post seeks to achieve.***

If our reporting resonates with you too, then right now you are uniquely placed to support us and help build our regional reporting to create a bulwark for local and regional journalism that our area deserves.

Through December 31—NewsMatch will double the impact of your gift and every individual gift up to $1,000 per donor, to a match cap for Corner Post Media of $15,000. This means that if we raise $15,000, we can earn up to $30,000.

If you love the Colorado Plateau, we hope you'll help support our vision.

https://cornerpost.org/donate-to-corner-post/

14/11/2024

Why Regional Reporting Matters:

This week, we wanted to offer a story highlight as a way of sharing the value of our work, the kind of coverage we're aiming for, and how our grassroots, region-based journalism can uniquely serve the Colorado Plateau region.

Below, Peg Smith, a board member of Corner Post Media, has selected a Corner Post story that she found particularly impactful:

****"One thing I love about 'depthy' feature stories is that 'Wow, I never knew that' feeling I get from a story I may have never otherwise gone looking for.

Emily Arntsen’s story entitled “How did mountain lions become a bargaining chip in a political debate over Utah’s public lands?” is a case in point. It’s an absorbing example of how the original intent behind a piece of legislation gets altered during the course of its sausage-making by additions and changes in the name of politics. And in this example, it’s the cougar population in Utah that bears the cost of making decisions by politics, not by science, and putting cougar hunting “restrictions” nearly on par with shooting rabbits or fishing for trout.

Emily’s interviews with Utah legislators, state biologists, hunters, and livestock raisers provide a multi-faceted window into one story operating on many different levels."****

If our reporting resonates with you too, then right now you are uniquely placed to support us and help build our regional reporting to create a bulwark for local and regional journalism that our area deserves.

Through December 31—NewsMatch will double the impact of your gift and every individual gift up to $1,000 per donor, to a match cap for Corner Post Media of $15,000. This means that if we raise $15,000, we can earn up to $30,000.

If you love the Colorado Plateau, we hope you'll help support our vision.

https://cornerpost.org/donate-to-corner-post/

01/11/2024

Today is the day! It's the kickoff of our 2024 NewsMatch Campaign, our biggest fundraiser of the year.

Starting today—and through December 31—NewsMatch will double the impact of your gift and every individual gift up to $1,000 per donor, to a match cap for Corner Post Media of $15,000. This means that if we raise $15,000, we can earn up to $30,000. Any amount—$5, $10, $20—will go a long way to helping us achieve this goal.

Our goal is to build a media company to serve our special region of the Colorado Plateau into the future. And it's your opportunity, if you share our vision of a thriving organization that serves as a bulwark for journalism in our region, to support our collective cause.

Your support will get our NewsMatch campaign off to a strong start and help keep Corner Post going in 2025 and beyond.

Donate now! https://cornerpost.org/donate-to-corner-post/

03/07/2024

Travel at Your Own Risk: BLM and Garfield County continue sparring match over Hole-in-the Rock Road

This new in-depth piece by Ian Marynowski is now available at cornerpost.org.

The Hole-in-the Rock Road (HITR), a 50-plus mile dead-end dirt track that starts just east of Escalante and ends at a bluff above the Colorado River, is among the most iconic back-country roads traversing what is now the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

It’s also among the most contentious routes in the ongoing quarrel between counties and the federal government over ownership and management of routes that traverse public lands. Hole-in-the-Rock is among a slew of tracts that Utah’s Garfield County claims should be theirs—under a law called RS-2477, a statute of the 1866 Mining Act.

Dramatic increases in tourism and travel on HITR are straining Garfield County’s road maintenance budget, and the county would not only like to obtain control of the road but would like to see at least some portion of it paved, a move that environmental groups and others feel is counter to the values the monument is intended to protect.

Read Travel at Your Own Risk: BLM and Garfield County continue sparring match over Hole-in-the Rock Road now by following the link below to our website.

https://cornerpost.org/2024/07/02/travel-at-your-own-risk/

30/01/2024

How did mountain lions become a bargaining chip in a political debate over
Utah's public lands?

This new in-depth piece by Emily Arntsen is now available at Corner Post.

It’s been nearly a year since Utah lawmakers passed House Bill 469. A last minute amendment to the bill—as a bargain made with conservatives over a separate public lands provision—made cougar hunting laws as permissive as trout fishing regulations, with the idea that unrestrained hunting would knock down supposedly booming lion numbers.

The changes made to the state’s hunting laws kicked off a contentious and ongoing political battle that has provoked a lawsuit against the state and pitted some of Utah’s most influential subcultures against each other. Hunters, ranchers, conservationists, and even those concerned about the percentage of public land ownership in the state have found themselves fervently divided on the topic of cougar hunting.

“I’m still trying to wrap my head around what mountain lion management should look like,” said Darren DeBloois, a biologist who serves as the game mammal coordinator with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. “It’s a political question now.”

Read How did mountain lions become a bargaining chip in a political debate over Utah’s public lands? now by going to cornerpost.org.

04/01/2024

We’re thrilled to be kicking off 2024 with a bit of good news: Thanks to readers like you who donated to Corner Post—as well as those who donated through The Insider year-end fundraising campaign—we not only reached our NewsMatch goal of $15,000, but we exceeded even our stretch goal to raise a total of $20,160! And thanks to NewsMatch and Loud Hound Fund, which will both be matching these donations up to $15,000 each, our total funds raised through our 2023 year-end campaign is $50,160!

That is a ton of impact for Colorado Plateau journalism and puts us in a great position going into 2024 to continue to work towards our goals of further expanding our reporting and bringing this region the coverage that it deserves.

Thank you for investing in us and for supporting and believing in our vision time and time again. We couldn't do this without you.

Now, let’s get to work!

28/11/2023

It’s (or what we prefer to call ), which is built on the idea of radical generosity following the splurging of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. This day is all about helping our communities, showing up for issues that matter, and acknowledging our shared humanity.

From now through the end of the year, every donation made will be matched 2:1 by NewsMatch (up to $13,000) and additional matching donor the Loud Hound Fund (up to $15,000). This means that with your help, Corner Post could raise up to $43,000 during this year's NewsMatch campaign.

We believe in the generosity and kindness of this community, and are hoping to reach a goal of raising $2,000 by the end of the day today! We have just 24 hours to reach our goal! Any size donation is valued and appreciated, from $10, $25, or $50, all the way up to the NewsMatch cap of $1,000 per individual donor. With your help, we will reach our overall goal of $15,000 raised by December 31, 2023.

This is the moment to give. Can we count on you to help us reach our goal?

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