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April 23, 2024
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Time.com video: Tribal radio fills airwaves in rural communities

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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At the Aug. 9, 2020 Sturgis Medicine Wheel Ride, Native women bikers launch from the sacred site of Bear Butte to raise awareness about missing and murdered relatives. Photo credit/ Talli Nauman

time-native-america-radioJesse Hardman has created a great tribal radio video for Time. It was great to recently view the piece online. Hardman and I worked on a joint tribal radio-media project while at Harvard University. We both took a class on Native nation building with Joe Kalt. Meanwhile, congratulations to Hardman for keeping the story of tribal radio alive. And to everyone else, keep supporting those tribal radio stations! Also, a reminder that the the broadband stimulus deadlines for rural and underserved areas is fast approaching, Aug. 14 to be exact. Check out the Native Public Media site for more information. It was great to meet some of the folks at Native Public Media, such as Peggy Berryhill, at the recent Indian Country-Federal Communications Commission meeting in Rpaid City, S.D.

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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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