Site Url: http://yellowstonegate.com
Target community: Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks and their five small gateway towns in Montana and Wyoming.
Is the site active?
Professional journalists?
Paid staff?
Is the site part of a network?
Is the site a media affiliate?
Content created by:
Who contributes to your content?
- Professional journalists: %
- Community members: 10%
- Students: 0
- Aggregate content of others: %
- Others: 0
Site's focus: Hybrid site covering community news, niche topic and travel news for Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks
Target audience size: more than 1 million
Year founded: 2011
Who or what started your project?
- an individual
- a professional journalist(s)
Update frequency: weekly or several times a week
Which online networks do you use?
- Facebook: facebook.com/yellowstonegate
- Twitter: twitter.com/yellowstonegate
- Other network(s): https://plus.google.com/118015962158063493640; http://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowstonegate
Does your site aggregate content from other online sites? Yes
Does your site provide training? Yes
Business model: For-profit
What are your sources of revenue?- advertising
- donors
- micropayments
- payments for use of content
- How many full time staffers: 1
- How many part-time staffers: 2
- How many volunteers: 5
- How many students: 0
Annual operating budget: less than $100,000 per year
Contact Information
Location: Cody, WY, United States of America
Contact URL: http://www.yellowstonegate.com/about/
1 means "not very important" and 6 means "very important"
- Covering news not covered: 6
- Watchdogging local government and public officials: 5
- Investigating issues or wrongdoings: 4
- Helping your community solve problems: 5
- Empowering community members: 4
- Developing opportunities for community dialogue: 4
- Collaborating with local partners: 4
- Involving community to shape local content: 4
- Making a profit: 2
- Being a sustainable operation:
What else should people know about your site?
Yellowstone Gate is unique in that it serves several different readerships that aren't otherwise being served elsewhere. We are an in-depth news site that does infrequent investigative reporting on Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks; we are a travel site geared toward informing first-time park visitors; we are a community news site specializing in covering how park issues effect local gateway towns and we are a site that solicits reader-generated contributions in the way of essays, photos and other works that help tell the story of life in and around the parks.
What are your suggestions and/or links to other community news sites that should be added to the directory?
A couple of sites in Wyoming that you may not know about are:
www.wyofile.com (part of Block by Block)
www.county10.com (a community news startup serving a rural Wyoming county)