• Source: Indigenous Journalists Association

The Indigenous Journalists Association is an organization dedicated to supporting Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples in journalism. The organization hosts the annual National Native Media Awards.
The organization was founded as the Native American Journalists Association in 1983, launched from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. It incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1986. Members voted to change the name to Indigenous Journalists Association in 2023.




Mission and structure


The organization seeks to improve the representation of Native Americans in newsrooms and in the profession of journalism, NAJA is a member group of UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc. Each year, the organization recognizes Native American journalists and associate members with journalism awards for excellence in coverage on a variety of topic areas. NAJA hosts workshops and conferences to teach and share the journalistic skills necessary to cover issues in and about Indian Country.
The administration of Indigenous Journalists Association includes:

Executive Director: Rebecca Landsberry (Muscogee Nation), 2024
Vice President: Christine Trudeau (Prairie Band Potawatomi), 2023
Francine Compton (Sandy Bay Ojibway), assignment producer for CBC Indigenous, served as executive director. Graham Lee Brewer (Cherokee Nation) served as president.
Student chapters are located at the University of Arizona and Columbia University.




Background


The association was founded as the Native American Press Association in 1984 with initial funding provided by the Gannett Foundation. Adrian C. Louis (Lovelock Paiute), Jose Barreiro (Taíno), Tim Giago (Oglala Lakota), and Bill Dulaney, among others, were founding members.
The organization was headquartered at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, South Dakota, as of 2002. In 2003 it moved into the Al Neuharth Media Center, where it shared space with the Freedom Forum. In 2008, it moved to the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma.




Actions and outreach


The work of the 501(c) organization includes advocating for better representations of Native Americans in the media. The organization spoke out against the United States government's use of Geronimo's name as a code for Osama bin Laden.
NAJA celebrated its 10th annual Native American Journalism Career Conference at the Crazy Horse Memorial in 2009. The Native American Journalists Association celebrated its 25th annual convention in 2009.
NAJA has been one of the organizations submitting questions for the 2012 Presidential Debates and other Presidential forums.
A 2009 C-SPAN interview by Sonja Gavankar at the Newseum featured two members of the Native Americans Journalists Association, Jeff Harjo and Rhonda LeValdo, discussing their concerns regarding media coverage of Native Americans.




See also



List of Indigenous newspapers in North America
Lenore Keeshig-Tobias
Minnie Two Shoes




Notes






External links


Official website
"Media Coverage of Native Americans. Challenges Facing Native Americans in the United States - Close Up at the Newseum". C-SPAN Video Library. 2009-02-12. Retrieved 2013-02-02. Interview with Jeff Harjo and Rhonda LeValdo of NAJA, with questions from Native American students

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