Native News Online
{{Short description|Native American news outlet}}
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| motto = Native News Online delivers important daily news that affects the lives of Native Americans nationwide.
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| owner = Indian Country Media, LLC
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| publisher = Levi Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi)
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Native News Online{{Cite web|url=https://nativenewsonline.net/|title=Native News Online - Home - Native News Online|website=nativenewsonline.net}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://nativenewsonline.net/about-us|title=About Us|first=Claire|last=Boomgaard|website=Native News Online}}{{cite news |title=Levi Rickert |url=https://tribalbusinessnews.com/staff-directory/levi-rickert |access-date=15 October 2024 |publisher=Tribal Business News}}
The Democracy Fund has described Rickert as "push[ing] ahead to fill
his Native News Online website with fresh content seven days a week.{{cite news |last1=Rave |first1=J. |title=American Indian Media Today |agency=NajaNewsRoom, Indigenous Journalists Association |publisher=Democracy Fund |date=November 2018}}
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.{{cite web |title=Native News Online |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0044127/ |website=Library of Congress |access-date=15 October 2024}}
Native News Online has been used as an expert source on subjects relevant to the Indigenous people of North America including inter-tribal concerns.{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Alaina E. |title=A Hammer and a Mirror: Tribal Disenrollment and Scholarly Responsibility |journal=Western Historical Quarterly |date=Spring 2018 |volume=49 |issue=1 |pages=91–96 |doi=10.1093/whq/whx092 |jstor=26782938 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26782938 |access-date=17 October 2024|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |last1=Davidson |first1=T. |last2=Miller |first2=N. P. |last3=Day |first3=B. |title=Primitive or empowered: representations of Native Americans and COVID-19 in news media |journal=Communication Quarterly |date=2022 |volume=71 |issue=1 |pages=43–63 |doi=10.1080/01463373.2022.2105654 |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2022.2105654 |access-date=17 October 2024|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |last1=Schroeder |first1=Jean Reith |last2=Chin |first2=Roger J. |title=Whose Lives Matter: The Media's Failure to Cover Police Use of Lethal Force Against Native Americans |journal=Race and Justice |date=2017 |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=150–175 |doi=10.1177/2153368717734614 |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/2153368717734614|url-access=subscription }} Native News Online has been examined in academic case studies of Indigenous journalism as "one of the most-read daily American Indian news publications."{{cite journal |last1=Greene-Blye |first1=Melissa |last2=Finneman |first2=Teri |title=The influence of Indigenous standpoint: Examining Indian Country press portrayals of Native women in politics |journal=Newspaper Research Journal |date=2023 |volume=44 |issue=4 |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/07395329231155195 |pages=390–408 |doi=10.1177/07395329231155195 |access-date=17 October 2024|url-access=subscription }}
Native News Online is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.{{cite news |last1=Michigan Humanities Council |title=Gi-gikinomaage-min: Defend Our History, Unlock Your Spirit |url=https://www.gvsu.edu/cms4/asset/E2D5A9B3-D9EB-E2A4-2F0BCD2AD8B2D772/kutsche_chronicle_fall_20141.pdf |access-date=15 October 2024 |work=The Kutsche Chronicle |date=Fall 2014 |page=2}}
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.{{cite web |title=Award Recipients |url=https://ahr.facesandvoicesofrecovery.org/awards/ |website=Faces and Voices of Recovery |access-date=15 October 2024}}{{cite web |title=Elyse Wild |url=https://ahr.facesandvoicesofrecovery.org/awardee/elyse-wild/ |website=FVR |access-date=15 October 2024}}
In 2022 URL Media, which represents high-performing BIPOC news outlets selected Native News Online to be the premier publication to join the network.{{cite news |last1=Watson |first1=Rachel |title=Native News Online joins URL Media Network |access-date=15 October 2024 |publisher=Crain's Grand Rapids Business |url=https://www.crainsgrandrapids.com/news/human-resources/native-news-online-joins-url-media-network/ |date=3 February 2022}} Native News Online was recognized by the Oklahoma Media Center for their work reporting on the largest Supreme Court ruling regarding tribal sovereignty.{{cite web |title=How the Oklahoma Media Center has collaborated to cover the biggest Native American court ruling in more than a century (Native News Online) |url=https://us7.campaign-archive.com/?u=d4573d74e237e345f9abc9034&id=971e63f726 |website=American Press Institute |access-date=15 October 2024}} Bluestem Prairie: News from Greater Minnesota and South Dakota reported on Native News Online's coverage of Indigenous Peoples Day.{{cite news |title=Native News Online: State rep Heather Keeler aims to recognize Indigenous Peoples Day |url=https://www.bluestemprairie.com/bluestemprairie/2022/01/native-news-online-state-rep-heather-keeler-aims-to-recognize-indigenous-peoples-day.html |access-date=15 October 2024 |publisher=Bluestem Prairie: News from Greater Minnesota and South Dakota |date=28 January 2022}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://info.library.okstate.edu/c.php?g=723347&p=5160637 Native American Tribal Resources and Newspapers: Online U.S. Tribal Newsletters and Newspapers], Edmon Low Library, Oklahoma State University
- [https://ualr.edu/sequoyah/indigenous-newspapers/ Indigenous Newspapers in North America], Sequoyah National Research Center, University of Arkansas–Little Rock
- [https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/resources/headlines-and-information.html Native Voices: Native People's Concepts of Health and Illness], published by the National Institute of Health
Category:2011 establishments in the United States