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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate. It’s best used as a snapshot of the media landscape at that point in time.

WyoFile is a nonprofit news site that covers public-interest news in Wyoming.

The site was founded in 2008 and is funded by grants and donations, led by a Community Information Challenge grant from the Knight Foundation. As of January 2010, the site had raised about $250,000. It had a budget of about $250,000 in 2012, with more than 90% of its funding coming from foundations.

WyoFile has three full-time staff members and more than a dozen contributors.

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New West, Crosscut, InvestigateWest

Recent Nieman Lab coverage:

Dec. 10, 2019 / Christine Schmidt

Here are the American Journalism Project’s first 11 recipients, taking home $8.5 million to grow their business operations — Fresh off painful layoffs, the tally of 7,700 media jobs lost this year, and a warning that the first six months of 2020 will be especially painful for local newspapers, in steps the American Journalism Project with its ...

July 24, 2017 / Christine Schmidt

Wyoming regional media nonprofit WyoFile has been diving deep into local news for almost ten years — As the saying goes in Wyoming, the state is “a small town with very long streets,” according to Matthew Copeland, a longtime Wyoming resident and freelancer who recently assumed the post of chief executive an...

Jan. 29, 2015 / Ken Doctor

Newsonomics: From national, Politico expands into global — and local — Twenty years ago, Jim VandeHei took an unassuming job that would later shape the global news empire he’s still building. Fresh out of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh with degrees in journalism and political sc...

Nov. 1, 2013 / Justin Ellis

What does sustainability look like in nonprofit journalism? — What, exactly, does a healthy nonprofit news site look like? If you’re a national site like ProPublica, is the metric winning major awards and changing policy through your reporting? If you’re a state-focused...

Sept. 6, 2012 / Justin Ellis

Knight Foundation funds data, rural, and enviro news projects — Local environmental news, health care coverage, and data reporting are among the many projects the Knight Foundation is funding through a new round of the Knight Community Information Challenge. In total, the foundation ...

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