Inspire(d) is an independent media company founded in 2007 in Decorah, Iowa. We create hyper-local positive news in print and online, featuring the people, places, and things that make our region great. We inspire our readers, while also promoting tourism, economic development, and town-pride.
We print Inspire(d) Magazine, our “experiment in positive news,” on a quarterly schedule – spring, summer, fall, winter.
Aryn Henning Nichols and Benji Nichols founded Inspire(d) shortly after they got married – 3000 copies of issue one rolled off the press October 4, 2007. Inspire(d) has now grown to print 13,000-16,500 magazines per issue, distributed free to more than 125 locations across our neck of the Driftless Region (Northeast Iowa, Southeast Minnesota, and Western Wisconsin) here in the Midwest.
It’s a two-person show at Inspire(d) Headquarters: Aryn is the editor and graphic designer and Benji heads up logistics and the ad sales department, but we’d be nothing without our fabulous contributors who hail from different areas across the region and beyond.
You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest, and make sure you don’t miss Inspire(d)’s companion podcast, Rhymes with Decorah, at www.decorah.fun. Produced by Benji Nichols (who brings a background in public radio and an excellent radio voice to the project), RWD is a fun way to learn a more about the communities we serve in the region (not just Decorah!) and the challenges we can all work together to overcome.
Thanks for being a part of this "experiment in positive news"!