Mark Trahant
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Mark Trahant is an independent print and broadcast [1] journalist. His blog, TrahantReports, currently covers Native Americans and politics. He also posts unique daily content on Twitter, including news rhymes.[2][3] Trahant was a reporter on the PBS series Frontline with a story called "The Silence," about sexual abuse by clergy in Alaska.[4] Trahant was recently a Kaiser Media Fellow. At the 2004 UNITY conference in Washington, D.C., he asked George W. Bush what the meaning of tribal sovereignty was in the 21st century; Bush replied, "Tribal sovereignty means that. It’s sovereign. You’re a ... you’re a ... you’ve been given sovereignty and you’re viewed as a sovereign entity."[5]
Trahant is the Charles R. Johnson Professor of Journalism at the University of North Dakota. He is a member of Idaho’s Shoshone-Bannock Tribe, and a former president of the Native American Journalists Association.[6] Trahant is the former editor of the editorial page for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, where he chaired the daily editorial board, directed a staff of writers, editors and a cartoonist.[7] He was chairman and chief executive officer at the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.[8] The Oakland, California–based nonprofit is the country's premier institute for providing advanced training and services nationally to help news media reflect diversity in content, staffing and business operations. He is a former columnist at The Seattle Times and has been publisher of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News in Moscow, Idaho; executive news editor of The Salt Lake Tribune; a reporter at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix; and has worked at several tribal newspapers.[9] He was an editor in residence at the University of Idaho.
Books
Trahant authored The Last Great Battle of the Indian Wars in 2010.
He authored Pictures of Our Nobler Selves, a history of American Indian contributions to journalism published by The Freedom Forum in 1996.[10]
He authored a commissioned work, The Whole Salmon, published by Idaho’s Sun Valley Center for the Arts.[11]
He co-authored his most recent book, Lewis & Clark Through Indian Eyes, an anthology edited by Alvin Josephy Jr.[12]
Honors and Awards
Trahant has won numerous journalism awards and was a finalist for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as co-author of a series on federal-Indian policy.[13] Trahant’s awards and honors include Best Columnist from the Native American Journalists Association and the Society of Professional Journalists, a Ruhl Fellowship, and co-winner of the Heywood Broun Award. He was a 2009-2010 Kaiser Media Fellow.[14][15] In 1995 Trahant was a visiting professional scholar at The Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University. He also serves as a Trustee of the Diversity Institute, an affiliate of the Freedom Forum, based in Washington, D.C. Trahant was a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 and 2005.
Personal life
Trahant lives in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
References
- ↑ FRONTLINE: The Silence. PBS (2011-04-19). Retrieved on 2011-04-26.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/newsrimes4lines Twitter newsrimes4lines. Retrieved on 2015-06-12.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/trahantreports Twitter TrahantReports. Retrieved on 2015-06-12.
- ↑ FRONTLINE: The Silence. PBS (2011-04-19). Retrieved on 2011-04-26.
- ↑ Bush on Native American Issues: "Tribal Sovereignty Means That. It’s Sovereign". Democracy Now! (2004-08). Retrieved on 2011-05-12.
- ↑ http://www.nativenewsnetwork.com/native-american-journalists-association-remembers-usa-today-founder-al-neuharth.html
- ↑ http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/P-I-names-Mark-Trahant-editorial-page-editor-1106482.php
- ↑ [1] Mark Trahant (Maynard Institute Board Chairman). Retrieved on 2012-06-10.
- ↑ http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/P-I-names-Mark-Trahant-editorial-page-editor-1106482.php
- ↑ http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6526397-pictures-of-our-nobler-selves Goodreads: Pictures of Our Nobler Selves: a History of Native American Contributions to News Media by Mark N. Trahant. Retrieved on 2015-06-12.
- ↑ http://artdaily.com/news/8538/The-Whole-Salmon--br--Opens-at-Nevada-Museum#.VXstlM9Viko The Whole Salmon Opens at Nevada Museum. Retrieved on 2015-06-12.
- ↑ http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/88860/lewis-and-clark-through-indian-eyes-by-edited-by-alvin-m-josephy/ Random Penguin House: NINE INDIAN WRITERS ON THE LEGACY OF THE EXPEDITION. Retrieved on 2015-06-12.
- ↑ http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/P-I-names-Mark-Trahant-editorial-page-editor-1106482.php
- ↑ http://khn.org/news/091709trahant/ Kaiser Health News. Retrieved on 2015-06-12.
- ↑ https://centerwest.org/archives/1948 CenterWest: Mark Trahant bio
