News in Appalachia
- KentuckyMonthly.com (October 2019): Moving Mountains
- Virginia Mercury (Sept. 26, 2019): Southwest Virginia looks to rock climbing for revenue boost
- VICE News (Aug. 19, 2019): This Small Appalachian Town Flooded. But the Real Trouble Started When Disaster Aid Arrived.
- New York Times (May 12, 2019): They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia. Now They Say It Was a Fraud.
- WDBJ7 (April 30, 2019): Pulaski blends preservation and progress in downtown revitalization approach
- The Roanoke Times (April 28, 2019): Editorial: Appalachia has a new story to tell, and it’s not an elegy
- The Roanoke Times (April 23, 2019): Foundation offers help to bring more doctors to Virginia’s coalfields
- The Roanoke Times (April 22, 2019): Floyd County to become the most connected rural community in Virginia, state leaders say
- 100 Days in Appalachia (April 19, 2019): Thomas, W.Va.: The Town the Arts (Re) Built
- MyBuchannon.com (April 19, 2019): Small-town Buckhannon, W.Va. retains its classic charm while thriving in modern Appalachia
- The Washington Post (April 16, 2019): A crisis in Kentucky shows the high cost of clean drinking water
- Newsweek (April 11, 2019): Take me home country roads: A trip through Appalachia
- Governing (April 2, 2019): Commentary: 3 Keys to the Economic Viability of Small Towns
- The Washington Post (March 28, 2019): In small towns across the nation, the death of a coal plant leaves an unmistakable void
- Virginia Mercury (March 25, 2019): Desperate for jobs, one of Virginia’s most conservative cities turns to marijuana and casinos
- Governing (March 11, 2019): As Coal Declines, Former Mining Towns Turn to Tourism
- Los Angeles Times (March 4, 2019): Broke, a sheriff in Appalachian coal country struggles to provide law and order
- WSLS Channel 10 (Feb. 18, 2019): Salem leveraging historic districts to fuel future economic growth
- The Roanoke Times (February 11, 2019): Bristol named Virginia’s most charming small town by The Travel Channel
- NPR (Dec. 18, 2018): An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands Of Coal Miners. Regulators Could Have Stopped It
- Lexington Herald-Leader (Dec. 6, 2108): ‘Tip of the spear.’ As customers beg for clean water, is a crisis looming in Appalachia?
- Lexington Herald-Leader (Dec. 6, 2108): Many in Eastern Kentucky can’t count on clean water. Here are 5 ways to fix that.
- Popular Mechanics (Dec. 3, 2018): Abandoned Coal Mines Could Be Future of Farming
- New York Times (Oct. 9, 2018): West Virginia’s Small-Town Revival
- New York Times (Oct. 5, 2018): A Virginia Coal Town Finds a New Natural Resource: Serpentine Roads for Motorcycling
- WVTF (Aug. 13, 2018): Recession Recovery Doesn’t Look the Same Across Virginia
- Smithsonian.com (Aug. 1, 2018): New Map Chronicles Three Decades of Surface Mining in Central Appalachia
- NPR (June 28, 2018): ‘Fundamental Shift’ Needed to Protect Miners from Deadly Black Lung
- NPR (June 19, 2018): As Rural Towns Lose Population, They Can Learn to ‘Shrink Smart’
- The Daily Yonder (May 29, 2018): If We Build It: The Tourism Economy in S.W. Virginia
- Citylab (May 1, 2018): The Rise of the Rural Creative Class
- The Conversation (April 25, 2018): Invoking noble coal miners is a mainstay of American politics
- CNBC (March 29, 2018): This Kentucky coal town is fighting for survival long after the war on coal is over
- Marketplace (Feb. 28, 2018): Some former coal towns turn to nature tourism as a new economic driver
- The Nation (Oct. 11, 2017): Can Local Food Help Appalachia Build a Post-Coal Future?
- New York Times (Sept. 30, 2017): What’s Up in Coal Country: Alternative-Energy Jobs
- Rewire (Sept. 8, 2017): Could Outdoor Tourism Keep Millennials in Appalachia?
- The Atlantic (Aug. 7, 2017): The Early Deaths of Appalachians
- Virginia Tech News (Aug. 3, 2017): Virginia Tech research team calls for examination of connection between human health and environment in Central Appalachia
- Washingtonian (July 7, 2017): A Gay DC Power Couple is Remaking a West Virginia Town. Not Everyone is Happy About It.
- Columbia Journalism Review (July 6, 2017): Dissatisfied with the national media’s frame, Appalachia finds its own voice
- Virginia Business (June 30, 2017): Renewables seen as way to stay in the energy business
- Inside Higher Ed (June 23, 2017): A New Direction in Appalachia
- Vinton Courier (June 7, 2017): Trump budget would cut Applachian Regional Commission
- The Wall Street Journal (May 26, 2017 – subscription required): Rural America Is the New Inner City
- U.S. News (May 6, 2017): Some Towns Rebound, Others Wither as Manufacturing Declines
- Asheville Citizen-Times (May 6, 2017): Appalachia at risk: Housing crisis threatens mountain life
- New York Times (May 2, 2017): Coal Jobs Prove Lucrative, but Not for Those in the Mines
- Walmart Digital Communications (May 2, 2017): Growing Beyond Europe, Korona Candles Lights Up U.S.
- Lexington Herald-Leader (April 20, 2017): Editorial: ‘Empower Kentucky’ for the future
- Washington Post (April 6, 2017): Kentucky Coal Mining Museum in Harlan County switches to solar power
- Daily Mail [U.K.] (March 27, 2017): Decline of the town that coal built
- The Atlantic (March 16, 2017): Trump’s Proposal to Scrap the Agency Devoted to Developing Appalachia
- Roanoke Times (Dec. 11, 2016): Editorial: How Wise County’s court clerk became a visionary economic developer
- Governing Magazine (December 2016): In Life After Coal, Appalachia Attempts to Reinvent Itself
- Voice of America (Sept. 21, 2016): US Coal Country Looks to Future Past ‘Black Gold’
- Huffington Post (Sept. 12, 2016): The Liberalization of Food Culture in Southwest Virginia
- Richmond Times-Dispatch (Aug. 27, 2016): The Extremes of Virginia, Part 1: Rural poverty hides in a rich state
- Asheville Citizen-Times (Aug. 19, 2016): Thrive: Revitalizing WNC downtowns
- Bloomberg Businessweek (Sept. 10, 2015): Coal’s Decline Is Choking Appalachia Towns
- Washington Post (Aug. 20, 2015): After coal, Appalachia to wind farm proposal: ‘It is insulting, really.’
- Daily Yonder (April 28, 2015): Mountaintop Removal Moves Closer
- The Atlantic (April 8, 2015): Imagining a Post-Coal Appalachia
- Fox News (Oct. 20, 2014): Losing the War on Coal: One Virginia town’s painful decline
- PA Times (July 2014): Developing Rural Communities
- New York Times (June 26, 2014): What’s the Matter With Eastern Kentucky?
- Kingsport Times News (Aug. 6, 2013): Despite town’s problems, some Pennington Gap residents aren’t giving up
- Richmond Times-Dispatch (Aug. 14, 2011): Va.’s declining communities: Southwest fights population losses