Mark Trahant Named Editor of Indian Country Today

Native American journalist Mark Trahant has been named as Editor of Indian Country Today, which has been under the ownership of the National Congress of American Indians since February 1st. Trahant is currently a 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. He previously served as 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. He was also the Chairman and CEO at the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. He has also worked at The Seattle Times, the Arizona Republic, The Salt Lake Tribune, Moscow-Pullman Daily News, the Navajo Times, Navajo Nation Today, and the Sho-Ban News. Trahant was a reporter on the PBS series, Frontline with The Silence, a story about sexual abuse by clergy in Alaska. “Indian Country needs a national digital platform for this generation that builds on the good work done by so many who created and published Indian Country Today in its previous lives. I look forward to recruiting and working with talented journalists who will create an innovative news organization,” Trahant said. More here.