{{Short description|Native American news outlet}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Native News Online | logo = | logo_upright = | logo_border = | logo_alt = | logo_size = | logo_caption = | image = | image_upright = | image_border = | image_alt = | image_size = | caption = | motto = ''Native News Online'' delivers important daily news that affects the lives of Native Americans nationwide. | type = | format = online | school = | owner = Indian Country Media, LLC | founder = <!-- or |founders= --> | publisher = [[Levi Rickert]] ([[Prairie Band Potawatomi]])<ref name=kutsche/> | president = | general_manager = | chief_editor = | editor = Elyse Wild<ref name=FVR/> | deputy_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = <!-- or |managing_editor= --> | news_editor = | campus_editor = | campus_chief = | metro_editor = | metro_chief = | opinion_editor = | photo_editor = | staff_writers = | custom_label = | custom_data = | founded = {{start date|2011}} | political_position = | language = English | ceased_publication = <!-- Use: {{end date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | relaunched = | headquarters = | publishing_city = [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]]<ref name=kutsche/> | publishing_country = United States | circulation = | circulation_date = | circulation_ref = | readership = | sister_newspapers = ''Tribal Business News'' | ISSN = | eISSN = | oclc = | RNI = | website = | free = }} '''Native News Online'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nativenewsonline.net/|title=Native News Online - Home - Native News Online|website=nativenewsonline.net}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nativenewsonline.net/about-us|title=About Us|first=Claire|last=Boomgaard|website=Native News Online}}</ref><ref name="TBN">{{cite news |title=Levi Rickert |url=https://tribalbusinessnews.com/staff-directory/levi-rickert |access-date=15 October 2024 |publisher=Tribal Business News}}</ref> The [[Democracy Fund]] has described Rickert as "push[ing] ahead to fill his ''Native News Online'' website with fresh content seven days a week.<ref name="IJA">{{cite news |last1=Rave |first1=J. |title=American Indian Media Today |agency=NajaNewsRoom, Indigenous Journalists Association |publisher=Democracy Fund |date=November 2018}}</ref>
The daily news outlet reports on events and new that has an impact on Indigenous American communities including [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indians]], [[Native Hawaiians]], [[Alaska Natives|Alaska Native peoples]], among others.<ref name="LoC">{{cite web |title=Native News Online |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0044127/ |website=Library of Congress |access-date=15 October 2024}}</ref>
Native News Online has been used as an [[Expert witness|expert source]] on subjects relevant to the [[Indigenous people of North America]] including inter-tribal concerns.<ref name="WHQ">{{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 }}</ref><ref name="CQ">{{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 }}</ref><ref name="RandJ">{{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 }}</ref> ''Native News Online'' has been examined in academic case studies of Indigenous journalism as "one of the most-read daily American Indian news publications."<ref name="NRJ">{{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 }}</ref>
''Native News Online'' is based in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]].<ref name="kutsche">{{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}}</ref>
== 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 Women|Missing and Murdered Indigenous People]].<ref name="FVR">{{cite web |title=Award Recipients |url=https://ahr.facesandvoicesofrecovery.org/awards/ |website=Faces and Voices of Recovery |access-date=15 October 2024}}</ref><ref name="FVR2">{{cite web |title=Elyse Wild |url=https://ahr.facesandvoicesofrecovery.org/awardee/elyse-wild/ |website=FVR |access-date=15 October 2024}}</ref>
In 2022 ''URL Media'', which represents high-performing [[Person of color|BIPOC]] news outlets selected ''Native News Online'' to be the premier publication to join the network.<ref name="Crain's GRB">{{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}}</ref> Native News Online was recognized by the Oklahoma Media Center for their work reporting on the largest Supreme Court ruling regarding tribal sovereignty.<ref name="API">{{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}}</ref> Bluestem Prairie: News from Greater Minnesota and South Dakota reported on ''Native News Online'''s coverage of [[Indigenous Peoples' Day (United States)|Indigenous Peoples Day]].<ref name="BP">{{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}}</ref>
==See also== * [[List of Indigenous newspapers in North America]]
==References== {{reflist}}
== 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
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