Native News Online

Native News Online
Native News Online delivers important daily news that affects the lives of Native Americans nationwide.
Formatonline
Owner(s)Indian Country Media, LLC
PublisherLevi Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi)[1]
EditorElyse Wild[2]
Founded2011 (2011)
LanguageEnglish
CityGrand Rapids, Michigan[1]
CountryUnited States
Sister newspapersTribal Business News

Native News Online[3] is an Indigenous-American focused news publication owned by Indian Country Media Network.

Native News Online was founded in 2011 by current publisher and editor Levi Rickert, a tribal citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, who has covered multiple stories in Indian country as a journalist over many years.[4][5] The Democracy Fund has described Rickert as "push[ing] ahead to fill his Native News Online website with fresh content seven days a week.[6]

The daily news outlet reports on events and new that has an impact on Indigenous American communities including American Indians, Native Hawaiians, Alaska Native peoples, among others.[7]

Native News Online has been used as an expert source on subjects relevant to the Indigenous people of North America including inter-tribal concerns.[8][9][10] Native News Online has been examined in academic case studies of Indigenous journalism as "one of the most-read daily American Indian news publications."[11]

Native News Online is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.[1]

Awards and honors

Senior editor, Elyse Wild won the 2024 Excellence in Recovery Journalism Award for her coverage of Indigenous health equity issues including harm reduction and recovery. Her journalism also focuses on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People.[2][12]

In 2022 URL Media, which represents high-performing BIPOC news outlets selected Native News Online to be the premier publication to join the network.[13] Native News Online was recognized by the Oklahoma Media Center for their work reporting on the largest Supreme Court ruling regarding tribal sovereignty.[14] Bluestem Prairie: News from Greater Minnesota and South Dakota reported on Native News Online's coverage of Indigenous Peoples Day.[15]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Michigan Humanities Council (Fall 2014). "Gi-gikinomaage-min: Defend Our History, Unlock Your Spirit" (PDF). The Kutsche Chronicle. p. 2. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Award Recipients". Faces and Voices of Recovery. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Native News Online - Home - Native News Online". nativenewsonline.net.
  4. ^ Boomgaard, Claire. "About Us". Native News Online.
  5. ^ "Levi Rickert". Tribal Business News. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  6. ^ Rave, J. (November 2018). "American Indian Media Today". Democracy Fund. NajaNewsRoom, Indigenous Journalists Association.
  7. ^ "Native News Online". Library of Congress. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  8. ^ Roberts, Alaina E. (Spring 2018). "A Hammer and a Mirror: Tribal Disenrollment and Scholarly Responsibility". Western Historical Quarterly (requires JSTOR log-in). 49 (1): 91–96. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  9. ^ Davidson, T.; Miller, N. P.; Day, B. (2022). "Primitive or empowered: representations of Native Americans and COVID-19 in news media". Communication Quarterly. 71 (1): 43–63. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  10. ^ Schroeder, Jean Reith; Chin, Roger J. (2017). "Whose Lives Matter: The Media's Failure to Cover Police Use of Lethal Force Against Native Americans". Race and Justice. 10 (2).
  11. ^ Greene-Blye, Melissa; Finneman, Teri (2023). "The influence of Indigenous standpoint: Examining Indian Country press portrayals of Native women in politics". Newspaper Research Journal. 44 (4): 390–408. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  12. ^ "Elyse Wild". FVR. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  13. ^ Watson, Rachel (3 February 2022). "Native News Online joins URL Media Network". Crain's Grand Rapids Business. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  14. ^ "How the Oklahoma Media Center has collaborated to cover the biggest Native American court ruling in more than a century (Native News Online)". American Press Institute. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  15. ^ "Native News Online: State rep Heather Keeler aims to recognize Indigenous Peoples Day". Bluestem Prairie: News from Greater Minnesota and South Dakota. 28 January 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2024.