Heartland Newsfeed was founded on December 31, 2016 combining passions for journalism and information technology. (Founder and editor-in-chief Jake Leonard has been a freelance journalist since 2009, and he’s owned a tech firm since 2004.) It was launched with the initiative that the news be reported without the toxic influences that the mainstream media espouses and the excessive political theater involved with some alternative media outlets.

That initiative has not changed as the digital publication focuses more closely on local news in central and southern Illinois as well as eastern Missouri in addition to national, world, and other news features, such as sports.

On December 31, 2018, its sister radio network — Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network — would launch, Leonard’s second venture into Internet radio streaming.

The launch surrounded the relaunch and rebranding of its broadcast predecessor — WWPM MediaNet — which operated from 2010 to 2013 as a variety talk and music station.

The relaunch would no longer focus on music due to increasing broadcasting royalty costs, but rather doubling down on the talk radio programming, adding sports content from San Francisco-based Sports Byline USA Radio Network.

More information about current programming for Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network is available here and the current programming for Revolution Radio is available here.