County Highway

County Highway is a magazine in the form of a 19th century American broadsheet, founded by David Samuels and Walter Kirn. The publisher of County Highway is Donald Rosenfeld.

Overview
The masthead was designed by Lisa Orth, the first art director of Sub Pop Records who designed Nirvana's logo and the cover of the band's first album, Bleach. According to Airmail, the magazine is a defense of “the American voice,” described by Samuels as “a posture of amazement and receptivity to lunacy, and also a focus on hard facts."

Approach
In an interview with Fox News, Walter Kirn explained that County Highway "aims to reverse the focus of mainstream journalism from big cities to small towns." On a similar note, Kirn told the Montana Free Press that the magazine "treats everything the way small town or small city newspapers treat their places: without special status or metropolitan privilege." In addition to cultural essays, investigations, and reported features County Highway also has a music section, as their editor's letter describes Americans as "a musical people". According to publisher Donald Rosenfeld, County Highway will be the periodical representation of Pan American Books. which "will focus on books that the conglomerates tend to ignore."

Distribution
County Highway is not distributed digitally. It is only available in print by mail subscription, or at over 200 small business locations, mostly in the United States, which include cafes, restaurants, feed stores, record stores, bakeries, bookshops and breweries.