To support regional bureau operations to support media landscape in Indian Country

Collaboration between IKI ($150,000) and DEPT ($50,000)

ICT is the largest news site that covers Tribes and Native people throughout the Americas. Their primary focus is delivering news to a national, mostly Indigenous, audience through their web-based publication and a daily half-hour  newscast. They report on the ground about the critical issues impacting Native nations and peoples in the United States and around the globe.  This grant will sustain their new news bureau hubs that have been created in four locations with sizable Indigenous populations that have significant economic, political, and social impact. ICT has bureau hubs in Phoenix, AZ, Washington, D.C., Anchorage, AK, and Missoula, MT . Their goal in creating these bureaus is to improve their range of reporting by creating regional news ecosystems in geographic areas with high concentrations of Indigenous populations, eventually expanding nationally from three to nine bureaus. Moreover, through their Bureaus, they develop internship programs to mentor young Indigenous journalists as they build thriving careers at ICT and beyond. This grant is supported jointly with the DEPT program.
This grant aligns with IKI program strategy 1a: To strengthen and sustain the field of Indigenous knowledge in the U.S.