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Yellowstone Gate


Site Url: http://yellowstonegate.com

Feed Url:

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 are you staffed?

  • 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/

How important is each of the following goals to your project?

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)

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