This week on The Meg Ellefson Show (part 1) (part 2), I interviewed Ben Dryden of Drydenwire.com, an online news outlet for rural northwest Wisconsin, which covers Barron, Burnett, Polk, Rusk, Sawyer and Washburn counties. With no dedicated newspapers, television or radio stations delivering daily news or weather, Ben decided to start Drydenwire because it was as he described, “a dead zone or Bermuda Triangle of media.”
He explained how the news outlets in the area were weekly newspapers and often local citizens didn’t find out about news sometimes for as long as 10 days after it occurred. He expressed his frustration to his mom back in 2015 before he started Drydenwire and she urged him to “do something about it.”
And so he did.
Dryden is an inspiration to aspiring media entrepreneurs.
Get involved. Determine your gifts and talents and pursue them. No time like the present!
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