Indigenous communities are often underrepresented in media, and University of Kansas professor Melissa Greene-Blye is working to increase that representation.
The university just received two grants to fund that work, which will help them teach a “character-based and solutions-oriented approach to coverage of Indigenous identity, issues and communities.”
"We know historically that representation around Native or Indigenous identity and issues in communities has been problematic," Greene-Blye told KCUR's Up To Date. "Much of that is due to, you know, a lack of education and understanding of those issues and that identity as a political identity. I am building a curriculum that I hope is going to teach and train Indigenous journalists as well as non-Indigenous journalists how to do the work in meaningful ways."
- Melissa Greene-Blye, assistant professor at the University of Kansas School of Journalism and the director of the Center for Indigenous Student Media
- Trina Tsinnie, student at Haskell Indian Nations University, producer of "Good Morning Indian Country" and host of "The Haskell Hour" on KJHK at KU as “DJ Trina Bina.”
