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Biography

Bryan Pollard is the associate director and former president at the Native American Journalists Association. He recently completed a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University, where he studied the value of an Indigenous free press and strategies to increase press freedom in Indian Country. Bryan is currently pursuing a master’s degree in journalism with emphasis in documentary filmmaking. His first film, A Shelter First, about the homelessness crisis in Northwest Arkansas was released in October 2018. He is a board member for High Country News, a nonprofit environmental and land use newsmagazine based in Colorado, and was instrumental in the development of its Indigenous Affairs desk. Prior to joining NAJA staff, he was the executive editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, the tribal news organization for the Cherokee Nation based in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The Phoenix was the first Native American newspaper originally published in 1828. Bryan is also the founding managing editor of Street Roots, a nonprofit newspaper focused on stories centering the homeless and low-income citizens of Portland, Oregon. Bryan was a certified high school teacher and taught journalism at Sequoyah High School, an Indian boarding school in Tahlequah. He has served as a mentor for numerous journalism workshops including the Oklahoma Institute for Diversity in Journalism, the Society of Professional Journalists Working Press, the UNITY News and the NAJA Native American Journalism Fellowship and Project Phoenix.

Content

Total articles 4

• Available on paid plans

  More Than News: Indigenous Media Empowers Native Voices and Communities

  By Bryan Pollard

  Jun. 10, 2020

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  Empowering the people’s voice as an act of self-determination

  By Bryan Pollard

  Mar. 06, 2020

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  Bolstering press freedom in Indian Country

  By Bryan Pollard

  Nov. 21, 2019

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